On the eve of September 1 – Knowledge Day, Tsian.Zhurnal compiled a list of the best Moscow schools. To do this, we used data from the Ministry of Education, independent ratings and reviews from parents. Are you thinking about moving closer to one of them in the near future? We have selected suitable residential complexes.
“In September, my son will go to fourth grade, the last grade of primary school,” says Muscovite Elena. – Our carefree childhood will end here – by next year we need to decide on a strong school, so that later it will be easier to enter a university. After all, if parents want to provide a future for their child, they need to start from childhood.”
Registration in the same area will also help to identify a child in the chosen school. However, most families move not so much for the sake of registration, but for the sake of convenience – few people like to travel across the whole city to study.
We specially compiled a list of schools in different areas – and chose residential complexes nearby for every taste and budget.
School No. 1502 “Energy”
The school consists of nine buildings – previously each of them was a separate school or kindergarten. Our rating included the Alpha Lyceum Building, located in the Ivanovskoye district and operating at the Moscow Energy Institute (MPEI). The curriculum corresponds to the physics and mathematics school at the university; there are also disciplines in the natural sciences and humanities. The school regularly holds scientific conferences and conducts active extracurricular activities: in addition to various clubs and sections, there is, for example, a volunteer club.
Moscow School in the South-West No. 1543
Those who have a penchant for exact sciences come here: from the 6th grade, students can study as part of the “Mathematical Vertical” project. Humanists and lovers of natural sciences can also choose a program: from the 8th grade, students are ided into profiles (mathematics, humanities, biology and physics and chemistry). There are evening schools, clubs, programming and robotics clubs, sports clubs, and Spanish language courses. There are several clubs dedicated to art.
School “Letovo”
This is one of the most famous private schools in Russia. It is among the top ten private schools in Europe (according to the Wealth Navigator magazine rating) and leads the world ranking of private IB schools – 2022 (IB – International Baccalaureate System): the average score of its graduates is 43 out of 45.
Some students study for free, and most parents return an average of 66% of costs through funds with which the school cooperates (as of August 2023, tuition costs start from 223 thousand rubles per month).
“Letovo” is a boarding school, students can live in it. The children who study here are so talented and interested that they are trusted to independently set up inidual educational plans and shape their future. Subjects can be studied at different paces, in different sequences, at different levels (from standard to advanced), independently or in a lesson. The school is located in New Moscow, but there are free shuttle buses from the Filatov Lug and Teply Stan metro stations.
School No. 1575
Like many other Moscow schools, 1575 has recently merged with its neighboring school No. 1289, which specializes in teaching foreign languages and is even part of the UNESCO Associated Schools.
In turn, school No. 1575 is among the top 200 schools in Russia in the field of mathematics and natural sciences (according to the Sirius educational center). It constantly occupies leading places in the ranking of Russian schools, whose graduates enter the best universities (RAEX rating according to the Expert RA rating scale). Children here are taught not only popular programming, entrepreneurship, engineering, technology, but also golf – the school is a member of the Moscow Golf Association and has the status of “Olympic Reserve School”.
School No. 1252 named after Cervantes
This school is adjacent to the 1575 mentioned above, but is located a little further from the center of Moscow. In 2022, she received a grant from the Moscow Mayor, 1st degree (top 20). According to the teaching staff, the special school culture helps children learn – they even publish their own newspaper! In addition to math, humanities and science classes, there are creative and cadet classes. Is it worth mentioning that the Cervantes school pays special tribute to the Spanish language! The list of clubs and sections includes more than 150 options to choose from.
School No. 1568 named after Pablo Neruda
Initially, this school was a physics and mathematics school (however, it remained so), but recently several more have been added to it – including a school with in-depth study of the Spanish language No. 1237 named after Pablo Neruda. As for the flagship 1568th, they teach here mainly mathematics, natural sciences and engineering disciplines (drawing, computer science). The pride of the school is its shared laboratories with the National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute”, which were organized in 2013.
School No. 57
“The fifty-seventh school” is exactly what one of the oldest and most famous schools in Moscow calls itself, in words. Now it specializes not only in the exact sciences (mathematics classes have existed here for more than 50 years), but also in the humanities. The school has mathematics-economics, physics-mathematics, biomedical and other classes. Its graduates enter the best universities in the country. In addition, schoolchildren constantly become winners and prize-winners of both international and Russian Olympiads and competitions. Extracurricular activities include theater studios, film clubs, linguistic clubs, sports sections, and much more. There are evening school branches. The school has several buildings, but the main building is located in Khamovniki, one of the most expensive areas of Moscow.
School No. 1363
The school is located in the southeast of Moscow, has several buildings and is regularly included in the top 20 best schools in the capital. In addition to traditional areas (physics, linguistics and other humanities), the school has medical, socio-economic, and engineering classes. In 2022, a separate space class appeared. Additional classes available for high school students are university Saturdays, where you can prepare for entrance exams and meet university teachers. The school cooperates with MEPhI, MSTU named after Bauman, MSTU “Stankin”, MAI, 1st Moscow State Medical University named after Sechenov.
School No. 1501
The school has seven buildings, the main building is located at: Tikhvinsky lane, 3. The school has four specialized classes: medical, linguistic, socio-economic and engineering. The list of partner universities includes MSTU “Stankin”, RGGU, MSTU named after Bauman. The school operates a center for technological support of education, where schoolchildren can get acquainted with modern equipment that is used in biomedicine, nanotechnology, mechatronics, aerospace development and other areas. Special attention is paid to financial literacy – there is a special course.
School No. 1980
Five school buildings are located in South Butovo. In addition to English, schoolchildren learn a second foreign language. There is a creative laboratory “I explore the world”: with the help of modern equipment you can create cartoons, write music and direct videos. The school actively participates in the “Vocational Education Without Borders” project – high school students can receive a certificate of qualification in the professions of “clerk”, “cook”, “hairdresser”, “jeweler”, “photographer”, etc.
There are many other excellent schools in Moscow: our list is not exhaustive. And for first-graders, the one in the yard is generally considered optimal – as long as the teacher is a good one! But the educational institutions listed above can change your life for the better and even encourage you to move.