Razi Elementary School (Tehran)

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Razi opened as an upper-class boys & girls high-school, elementary school, and kindergarten in the mid-1340's (mid-1960's) with thousands of students. Razi, inaugurated by Iran’s then-Queen ‘Farah Diba’ and ‘Général De Gaulle’ (France President from 1958 to 1969), was accredited by the French Ministry of Education and offered BEPC and Baccalauréat diploma. Kids of prominent families such as sons and daughters of government ministers and top officials, financial tycoons, foreign ambassadors, and even the youngest son of the royal (Pahlavi) family, Ali-Reza, and other nobility were amongst the students of Razi High-School. Originally, Razi followed the full French school curriculum, taught only by French- or Belgian- born instructors, along with the traditional Farsi one. A fully French section, the only one in the country, was established to accommodate the foreign French-speaking residents of Tehran. After the Islamic revolution, Razi High-School, which hosted both sex students from the most privileged families of Iran, and therefore was against the basic concepts of the revolution, was shut down and then reopened as an all boys school called 'Shohadaa' (i.e. ‘Martyrs’ in Farsi). The school eventually got its original name back in the late 1370's. French is not taught at Razi anymore since the revolution. One of the only traces of the French heritage at Razi high-school is the oversized rooster (French national symbol and often mascot) designed with rocks on the entrance wall of one of the schools many buildings. An alumni site fo the high-school can be found on the web at www.razihighschool.com/.