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Audentes International School

Tallinn, Estonia · est. 2011 · Private

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Audentes International School grew out of an international programme that the private Audentes school launched in 2011: back then only four children joined it, and since September 2019 the division has operated as a separate school under its current name. Today about a hundred students attend across three IB stages - the Middle Years Programme (grade 7, ages 12-13), the Pre-IB year (grade 10, for those who have finished the ninth grade) and the Diploma Programme (grades 11-12, ages 16-19); the Diploma Programme alone currently has students from more than ten countries, including Thailand, Turkey, the UAE, Mexico and Norway. Teaching is in English. The school shares its site with the Audentes sports complex at Tondi 84/1 and uses its facilities: a six-lane 25-metre pool with a children's pool, jacuzzis, a sauna and a steam room, a spacious gym with three zones, an athletics hall, a wrestling hall and a stadium. The library holds around ten thousand books in Estonian and English, with Spanish- and Russian-language materials for the IB programme, and since 2020 all students and teachers have been registered readers of Tallinn Central Library. On-campus catering is run by Baltic Restaurants Estonia, with a daily canteen next to the small building and a separate restaurant at the sports centre for breakfast and lunch. The school has a staff nurse (daily, room 117) and a psychological and career counselling service. For students aged 11 to 19 there is a dormitory: two- or three-bed rooms with bunk beds, a desk, a TV and internet, plus a separate double room; the building is open from 7:00 to 22:00, doors lock for the night, an administrator is reachable around the clock, and a dormitory manager is on duty on working days. The dormitory has no kitchen, so meals follow the school's meal plan. Among the school's traditions are the 1 September assembly, an initiation day for tenth-graders, a day when seniors teach the lessons, a shared Christmas lunch, a Global Awareness Week with Model United Nations sessions in late January, a Valentine's week and a graduation ball. Graduates have gone on to at least 18 universities in about ten countries, from the US and Canada to Switzerland, Ireland, the Netherlands and Estonia itself.