It provides the final stage of secondary education and is affiliated with Novosibirsk State University.
The idea of Specialized Educational Scientific Center was invented in 1962 at the same time with the first Summer School of Mathematics and Physics.
SESC was established in 1963 as the High School of Physics and Mathematics № 165.
More than half of teachers are scientists of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and professors of Novosibirsk State University.
The buildings are under the jurisdiction of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.