St. Gilgen International School
| St. Gilgen International School | |
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St. Gilgen, Salzburg Austria |
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| Type | Private |
| Motto | "Every child has a talent and St. Gilgen International School will discover it." |
| Established | 2008 |
| Principal | Tom Walsh |
| Enrollment | 155 |
| Campus | Village |
| Color(s) | Blue/Yellow |
| Website | http://www.stgis.at |
St. Gilgen International School (StGIS) co-educational boarding and day school between the ages of 9 and 18. The school offers a primary and middle school curriculum leading to the highly regarded International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme qualification in the final two years. The language of instruction is English.
StGIS is a member of the Council of International Schools, European Council of International Schools and Swiss Group of International Schools and is a registered Cambridge International Centre.
St. Gilgen International School was founded in 2008 by the Austrian architect and entrepreneur Alexander Serda and since then has grown steadily to the current enrolment of 155. The current capacity is 250. In 2013 the school was taken over by the British-American investment firm HIG Capital who also acquired the Italian International Schools of Europe Group. After a short period of self managed administration proceedings in April 2016, and brief negotiations with the nearby energy drinks company Red Bull, the school was taken over by the newly founded St. Gilgen International School Privatstiftung on May 15, 2016, a non profit foundation that is run by parents.
Since April 2017 the school maintains a cooperation with the pre-college programme of the Mozarteum University of Salzburg.
The school was built on a site beside Lake Wolfgang which previously contained green fields and some derelict villas. The villas were renovated to a high standard and five ‘state of the art’ teaching buildings were constructed over 12 months during 2007 and 2008.
The school is located in St. Gilgen on Lake Wolfgang 30 minutes' drive from Salzburg, Austria
The school's campus is in a spacious lakefront park with carefully renovated historic and newly built academic and boarding facilities, in the centre of the village of St. Gilgen. Students walk or bicycle to other school facilities in the village such as its own theatre, an “art garage”, the nearby rowing and sailing clubs, tennis and basketball courts, or to swim in the lake. Given the relative safety and security of the village of St. Gilgen, the students are given the freedom to consider its boundaries as the boundaries of the school campus.
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