Anglo-American School of St. Petersburg

The Anglo American School of St. Petersburg (AASSP), located in Saint Petersburg, Russia, was a branch of the Anglo-American School of Moscow (AAS).[1] It was an independent, non-profit, co-educational day school that served students from Kindergarten through Grade 12.[2] The 280 students represented thirty-four nationalities. The school had been closed on the 21st of September 2018 due to the American consulate in Saint Petersburg being closed. Currently, another educational group is in the process of opening a new international school in the same location.

Its campus is in proximity to the Saint Petersburg Zoo.[3]

A part-time Japanese school, the St.Petersburg Japanese Language School (サンクト･ペテルブルグ日本語補習校 Sankuto Peteruburugu Nihongo Hoshūkō), held classes at the Anglo-American School Saint Petersburg branch.[4]

History

The Anglo-American School in St. Petersburg was established in 1975.[5]

The Anglo-American School in St. Petersburg has shut its doors after 43 years in operation in 2018.[5] The closure occurred after the Russian government forced the closure of the American and British consulates and the British Council office in St. Petersburg; after those closures, the school was no longer legally feasible.[6] The closure of the consulates occurred in spring of 2018, a couple of months after the graduation of the 2018 class which happened to be the biggest graduating class in school history with 15 students. In the summer of 2018 the school received a permission to work for another school year (2018-2019) with a condition that it registers according to local legislation. In September 2018 the decision was reversed and the school was ordered to shut down within 3 days. Close to a hundred students of many nationalities were not able to continue their education for most of the school year.

The Russian government's actions were done in retaliation to the expulsion of Russian diplomats that were retaliations for the attempted poisoning of Sergei Skripal.[5]

In 2019, the Brookes Saint Petersburg International School opened its doors in the same building.[7]

See also

Russian embassy schools in the United States and United Kingdom:

References
  1. http://www.internationalschoolsreview.com/international-schools/st_petersburg.htm
  2. "Archived copy". Retrieved 2013-02-07.
  3. "Contact Us Archived 2018-01-16 at the Wayback Machine." Anglo American School of St Petersburg. Retrieved on February 13, 2015.
  4. "欧州の補習授業校一覧（平成25年4月15日現在）" (Archive). Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). Retrieved on May 10, 2014.
  5. Sands, David R. (2018-09-28). "Anglo-American school dating to Cold War shutting after four decades in Russia". The Washington Times. Retrieved 2020-05-13.
  6. "Anglo-American School in St. Petersburg Closes After 40 Years". The Moscow Times. 2018-09-28. Retrieved 2019-04-13.
  7. Brookes Saint Petersburg


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