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Tallinn English College

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Type
  
Public

Principal
  
Toomas Kruusimägi

Age
  
7 to 19

Phone
  
+372 646 1306

Color
  
Dark blue, red, white

Established
  
September 1940

Grades
  
1–12

Language
  
Estonian

Founded
  
September 1940

Tallinn English College

Address
  
Estonia puiestee 10, 10148 Tallinn, Estonia

Similar
  
Tallinn Secondary School of, Gustav Adolf Grammar, Tallinn Polytechnic School, Tallinna Transpor, Mederi Saal

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Tallinn English College (Estonian: Tallinna Inglise Kolledž) is a co-educational general education school in Tallinn, Estonia with in depth education in the English language. It has elementary, middle and senior levels with students aged from 7 to 18.

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History

The history of the college starts in 1940, when Tallinn Secondary School No. 7 was created by merging Tallinn French Lyceum and Jakob Westholm Grammar School. The school was located in the building on Hariduse Street erected for the French Lyceum in 1937. Its name returned to Jakob Westholm Grammar School in 1941 under the German occupation authorities, but its original name was lost again in 1944 when the Soviet occupation was restored. The students had to survive more mergers with other schools. Finally the college became one of the few elite schools specializing in English in Soviet-occupied Estonia.

In 1996 the school was renamed to Tallinn English College and moved to its current location on Estonia Puiestee in the very heart of Tallinn. 10.

Notable alumni

  • Yoko Alender, architect
  • Anu Lamp, actress
  • Rein Lang, Minister of Culture
  • Maria Listra, soprano
  • Mihkel Raud, singer, guitarist and journalist
  • Meeli Sööt, actress
  • References

    Tallinn English College Wikipedia