Nikan High School
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| Type | Private |
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| Established | 1967 |
| Principal | Mohsen Khashani Vahid |
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80 part-time teachers & 50 staff |
| Students | 400 |
| Location | Tehran, Iran |
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| Website | www.nikan.org |
Nikan High School is a boys-only school located in the north of Tehran, Iran. Nikan is an ancient Persian-Zorastrian name meaning "all the goodness in the world".
Hundreds of members of the Iranian political or religious elite have sent their sons to this school, which is famous for its high quality education in math, physics, and natural sciences, as well as an emphasis on Shia religious values and teachings.
The school is closely associated with Alavi High School.
Nikan graduates have strong ties and form communities in different parts of the world specially in Europe and North America. Each class has a designated number called "doreh" which shows the number of years from the foundation of the school after which the class entered the first grade (primary school).
Nikan High school remains one of the most difficult schools to gain admission to. Usually, about 80% of the 8th grade class continues to 12th grade and admission past 8th grade is extremely rare. The admission process consists of an entrance exam and an interview with the candidate and his parents. In summer of 2011, around 250 students took Nikan's entrance exam for admission into 9th grade, from which less about 10% were chosen. Those students were then interviewed, along with their families, and about 10 students were eventually granted offers of admission.
Several students from Nikan high school have been awarded medals at international math and science Olympiads such as IMO, IPHO, ICHO, IBO etc. The school's robotics team has won multiple national & international awards, such as:
- Won the top prize at the RoboCup, RoboCup 2005 Osaka - Japan.(NEE1)
- A preferment rank in IranOpen 2006, the Rescue Real Robots field (The RoboNikA team)
- 2nd place in 1_1 RoboCup Junior, Soccer Challenge, IranOpen 2006 (The RoboNik1 team)
- 4th place in 2_2 RoboCup Junior, Soccer Challenge, IranOpen 2006 (The RoboNik2 team)
- 4th place in 2_2 RoboCup Junior, Soccer Challenge, IranOpen 2007 (The team was not known as a Nikan H.S. team but the individuals were Nikan students) - 1st place in RoboCup Junior, Mind Challenge, IranOpen 2006 (The "OverLord" team)
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