Hull's School

Hull's School is the first English college in Zurich for teenagers. The four-year college programme taught in English (except for modern languages), and covers the UK Fifth and Sixth Forms (Years 10 to 13). Students are prepared for IGCSE and A-level examinations.

Eighty-five percent of Hull’s School students are native German speakers, fifteen percent are bilingual (English and German), or speak a language other than German as their mother tongue. Ninety percent of students are Swiss nationals. The college campus consists of four buildings located near the Zurich Opera House and is the academic home of 300 students.

Hull's School enables students to become...

Personal

• Confident and independent
• Disciplined and willing to make an effort
• Cultured
• Critical thinkers with enquiring minds
• Engaged and enterprising
• Fulfilled

Social

• Team players
• Fair
• Considerate and respectful
• Caring
• Involved in the community
• Informed about current events

Academic/career

• Successful
• Fit for challenges
• Capable problem solvers
• Innovative
• Creative

Our curriculum is designed to...

• Enable students to succeed in a globalised world where English is the lingua franca
• Master German and a third language (in addition to English) at an advanced level
• Promote independent thinking and learning in the pursuit of excellence
• Provide a broadly-based education that enables all students to discover their strengths and make the most of their talents
• Engender respect for individuality, difference and the importance of teamwork
• Provide pastoral and academic support
• Foster self-confidence, enthusiasm, perseverance and tolerance

Hull's School was founded in 1945 by Dr James Hull. In 1992, Dr Hull handed over the school to his son, Robin Hull, in order to spend his final years completing his magnum opus, a study of the works of the 20th-century English writer Aldous Huxley.

In the 1990s, Hull's School expanded to become one of larger independent schools in German-speaking Switzerland. In 1997, the school purchased a building in the centre of Zurich, close to the Stadelhofen train station. As it continued growing, it added three more buildings in the immediate vicinity of the Zurich Opera House. By now it was one of the most popular English private Sixth-Form colleges (Kurzgymnasia) in Switzerland.