European School, Culham
| European School of Culham Schola Europaea |
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Thame Lane Culham, Oxfordshire, OX14 3DZ England, UK 
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| Coordinates | 51°39′22″N 1°15′28″W / 51.65611°N 1.25778°WCoordinates: 51°39′22″N 1°15′28″W / 51.65611°N 1.25778°W |
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| Type | International |
| Established | 1852 (as Culham College), 1978 (as a European School) |
| Founder | European Coal and Steel Community |
| Sister school | All the European Schools are considered sisters schools |
| Headteacher | Leene Soekov (Estonian) |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Age | 4 to 18 |
| Enrollment | 440 |
| Slogan | "United in diversity" |
| Nickname | ESC, Euroschool, Culham |
| Former Pupils | Culhamians |
| Website | Official website www |
The European School of Culham (ESC), Oxfordshire, is one of fourteen European Schools around Europe and the only one in the United Kingdom and it currently has around 450 secondary (11–19 years old) students.
It is located on the grounds of the former Culham College, a teacher training college established in 1852 by Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford. The Gothic Revival architect Joseph Clarke designed its buildings, and Sherwood and Pevsner described them as "institutional Victorian Gothic at its grimmest".
The school was formed primarily to serve the children of EU employees working at JET/EFDA, in Culham, but the project is currently scheduled to move to Cadarache, France around 2016/17.
The school will close on the 31st August 2017 but a new Accredited European school has been phasing in since 2012. The Europa school UK, which is a state founded free school (England) will provide the European Baccalaureate curriculum from 1st September 2017.
As of October 12, 2003, the student population of the European School, Culham was 884 — of which 88 were in the nursery school, 343 in the primary school and 453 in the secondary school. There were five language sections: German (DP or DS), French (FP or FS), Italian (IP or IS), Dutch (NP or NS) and English (EP or ES). Each language has its own year group: nursery, primary ("X"P), and secondary ("X"S). Since 2012, there have been only three language sections; English, German and French in the Secondary school.
The school's basketball team were U16 national champions in 2000 and U19 national champions in 2003.
The European School, Culham has many sport and educational facilities, including a basketball/volleyball indoor sports hall, a five-a-side sized indoor gym, and two sports fields.
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