ELTE Radnóti Miklós School, Educational institution in Zugló, Hungary.
The ELTE Radnóti Miklós School is an educational building in Budapest's Zugló district serving both primary and secondary students. The facility offers various educational programs including 12-year, 8-year, and combined 1+6 grade systems.
The school building was completed in 1931, designed by architects Béla Lajta and Ármin Hegedűs in the Art Deco style as an important architectural work. Following its nationalization in 1952, it transformed from a Jewish educational center into a state-run institution.
The school took the name of poet Miklós Radnóti in 1959 under headmaster József Simon, and became a practice school of Eötvös Loránd University on 1 July 1961. A synagogue built within the building was completed in 1927. Since 1990 it has run six- and eight-year gimnázium tracks.
The school stands at the corner of Abonyi utca and Cházár András utca in Zugló, district XIV, with the synagogue attached to the building. It is an operating school, so the interior is not open to casual visitors; the brick facades, the crenellated wing and the gate piers along the street can be seen from the pavement.
Béla Lajta died in 1920 before the building was finished, and Ármin Hegedűs completed the design. A synagogue was built inside the school and finished in 1927. In 1944, officer László Ocskay used the building to shelter around 2,500 Jewish labour servicemen and their families.
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