The year of birth of Kherson Regional Lyceum for capable and gifted pupils from the rural locality is considered 1992. Although the first lyceum forms were opened in 1990, yet on the base of a boarding-school through lyceum of agricultural and pedagogical profiles. In 1961 it became a boarding school for orphans. In 1992 Kherson Regional Lyceum was established there by the order of the representative of the President of Ukraine in Kherson region.

Kherson Regional Lyceum is one of the first Lyceums for gifted rural children in

Ukraine. It is a boarding school of 540 students aged 14-17 from 18 districts of Kherson Region. A wide diversity of ethnic groups is represented here: Ukrainians, Russians, Byelorussians, Armenians, Greeks, Koreans, Georgians, Poles, Bulgarians and Moldavians.

Now, three forms of preparing pre-profile training and 14 forms of the senior school function in Lyceum in such spheres as

Physics and Mathematics

Chemistry and Biology

History and Philology

Foreign Philology Technology.

At the end of 9 and 11 forms students pass such exams as:

9th Form:• Mathematics• Biology• Geography• Ukrainian Language

11th Form:• History of Ukraine• English• Ukrainian language• Mathematics• Biology

The high-professional pedagogical staff comprising 52 teachers, 20 educators, a practicing psychologist, a social mentor and a pedagogue-organizer realises the newest ideas.

The proper materials base is created in an academic building with 25 studies (including three of information science, four rooms with interactive boards (physics, chemistry, biology and humanitarian subjects), mobile computer complex: a server, 16 notebook computers and two access points to Internet)

There are two hostels in Lyceum, one for boys and one for girls. Also, there is canteen.

Lyceum boasts of its Government garden, a dendrology park of eight hectares, which creates a unique microclimate on Lyceum territory. It was planted in 1873 by the Order of Empress Catherine the Great.

Flag of Lyceum Students’ Republic

Emblem of Lyceum Students’ Republic

Lyceum Anthem

LSR Power

Legislative Judicial Executive

President LSR Council Court of Honour LSR centers

Clubs

Press-club

Debate

Club Millennium

Club

“Leader”

ClubEurostudio

“Eternal Capital”

Bank

Different contests, festivals, parties, sport competitions are often held in Lyceum.

Challenges in Schools

Two times a year students

of Lyceum visit different cities in Europe.

Annually Kherson Regional Lyceum sends the best students for rest to Summer school for three weeks.

Students participate in all-Ukrainian ecological expedition ‘The Dnipro River. XXI Century’ which is held every august. They test water quality, define its hydro- biological characteristics and research river fauna and flora.

Each year Lyceum graduates students who demonstrate excellent results and easily enter best higher educational establishments in Ukraine.

Lyceum has already got numerous achievements, in particularly, the first place among regional

educational establishments according to the general rating of subject olympiad results in 2010/2011

academic year.