It was quite hard for pupils to learn new information and new English vocabulary.

By the end of the academic year british literature was the only English-thought subject.

In 1968 the first specialized classes in USSR (math-classes, natural-sciences-classes and humanitarian-sciences-classes) appeared in this school.

In 1997 the first school internet-class in Novosibirsk was opened here by George Soros.

In 2001 school got Mikhail Lavrentyev's name, and in 2002 it got the status of lyceum.