The birth of the first international school. The school opens on Sept 17th 1924, with just 8 students and a rabbit. Founded by local educators and by officials of the League of Nations and ILO, the purpose of the school was – and still is – to provide an international education based on the progressive educational principles of the éducation nouvelle movement.
1924
Paul Meyhoffer appointed first director.
1925
First boy boarders admitted; girls followed in 1926
1929
Move to the site at La Grande Boissière which is still in use today.
1929
Marie-Thérèse Maurette becomes directrice.
1949
Mme Maurette retires as directrice after 20 years in the job.
Mme Maurette retires as directrice after 20 years in the job. Fred Roquette becomes directeur with Bill Oats as his assistant given the increasing number of anglophone students.
1953
First Students’ United Nations (SUN) session in the International Labour Organisation.
1956
Opening of the Greek Theatre, which had been built largely through the efforts of students and teachers.
1958
The School reaches 1,000 students for the first time.
1968
The new Foundation of the International School of Geneva comes into being (First meeting of the Foundation Board).
1968
The International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IB) in English and French is largely created by Robert J. Leach and other teachers at the International School of Geneva.
1971
Distribution of the first IB Diplomas in the Greek Theatre by Lord Mountbatten.
1974
Merger with the Lycée des Nations - Collège International de la Châtaigneraie and creation of our second campus, La Châtaigneraie.
Merger with the Lycée des Nations - Collège International de la Châtaigneraie and creation of our second campus, La Châtaigneraie. The Foundation exceeds 2,000 students for the first time. 50th Anniversary Celebrations
1975
Merger with the United Nations Primary School (Pregny and Rigot sites)
1986
Princess Caroline of Monaco inaugurates Les Marronniers, the new Primary School on the La Grande Boissière campus.
1987
Inauguration of the Pregny Extension
1991
George Walker becomes Director-General.
1994
More than 100 nationalities in the student body for the first time.
1999
A unified Secondary School comes into existence at La Grande Boissière leading to the creation of the Tronc Commun.
A unified Secondary School comes into existence at La Grande Boissière leading to the creation of the Tronc Commun. George Walker leaves to become Director General of the International Baccalaureate Organisation.
2001
The last boarders leave and Ecolint stops offering boarding.
2003
Nicholas Tate becomes Director General.
2004
Student assembly to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the School.
2005
Opening of our third campus, Campus des Nations – an IB World School – and subsequent closure of Mies and Rigot.
2008
One hundred years of education on the La Châtaigneraie site. 4,000 students enrolled in the Foundation for the first time.
2010
Ecolint welcomes its first adult students with the launch of the Post Graduate Certificate in Education (International) in association with Durham University.
2011
Nicholas Tate retires after eight years and Vicky Tuck becomes Director General.
2014
Inauguration of the Foundation’s Centre des arts at La Grande Boissière.
2014
The School pays homage to its first student, Loïs Meyhoffer, during the 90th Anniversary celebrations in the Greek Theatre. The school has 139 nationalities on roll.
2014
Ecolint publishes - in conjunction with UNESCO - a set of Guiding principles for learning in the 21st century.
2015
Nearly 200 Ecolint students inaugurate a sculpture at the Palais des Nations marking the 70th anniversary of the United Nations Office presence in Geneva.
2016
An American black walnut tree, named Alexandre in honour of its illustrious predecessor, is planted at La Grande Boissière, 40 years after its homonym was felled, in the presence of Loïs Meyhoffer, the school’s first student.
