European School, Culham

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The European School in Culham, Oxfordshire, is one of 13 European Schools around Europe and the only one in Britain and currently has around 900 Nursery/Primary (4-11 years old) and secondary (11-18 years old) students.

It was opened in 1978 to educate the children of scientists working on the Joint European Torus (JET) project. It now also educates many pupils whose parents are not associated with the JET project.

It is sited on the grounds of the former Culham College, a teacher training college established in 1852 by Bishop Samuel Wilberforce. Its buildings are in a style described by Nikolaus Pevsner as "institutional Victorian Gothic at its grimmest".

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.

The European School Culham school newspaper is called BIAS. Until recently, it was called "Culham Oracle".

This European School finished 9th in Eurosport 2005 in Munich.

There are 5 language sections at this European school. a German, French, Italian , Dutch and English section. For pupils from other European countries who don't have enough pupils to open a section, there are mothertongue lessons, and the rest would be in English.