A City of Espoo upper secondary school in Tapiola, "an internationally oriented general upper secondary school with focus on economics and social sciences", preparing students for law, business and political science; it also has a LUMA science emphasis and upper secondary diplomas in visual arts, physical education and music. The school's predecessor was the private Hakalehdon yhteiskoulu, opened in 1963; it was municipalised in 1977, and since 2000 the school has occupied the WeeGee building. Alongside the Finnish-language general line, "ETIS has hosted a separate IB-programme since 2009"; the first IB graduates finished in spring 2012, and the school describes itself as one of the seventeen IB schools in Finland. The school states that its ylioppilastutkinto results, especially in mathematics, have long been among the best in the country. Students can take the German DSD I and DSD II exams; there is a summer exchange with Germany, study trips to Rome, Krakow, CERN and Nepal, Erasmus+ projects and university courses in Espoo. Language of instruction stated by the school: the general line in Finnish, the IB line, including the preparatory year, in English.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · DP · National programme
Languages of instruction
Finnish, English
Languages taught
Swedish, German, French, Spanish
About the fees The school is municipal; it does not write about tuition for Finnish and EU students. From August 2026 students who have arrived from outside the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland or live on a student residence permit pay an annual fee of "at minimum the unit price of central government transfers" (about 8500 EUR for Espoo in 2026); the school writes that it is likely to be 10300 EUR per school year (VAT 0%), but "The exact amount of the tuition fee has not been decided yet." Exempt are citizens of the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland, permanent residence permit holders and exchange students.
Admissions Admission through the joint application yhteishaku (Opintopolku): in spring 2026, 140 places in the general line and 50 in the IB line. Selection by the grade 9 grade point average; "We no longer test applicants", and for applicants from Finnish schools mathematics and English grades count double. Minimum averages in 2026: general line 8.83, IB line 8.86 (in 2025, 9.00 and 9.00). Applicants from outside the Finnish system are assessed on school reports and teacher appraisals through discretionary selection; "Competition for places is intense." The school admits foreigners: priority goes to "families relocating due to job opportunities or families returning to their homeland"; "We will only consider for admission students under the age of 18" living locally with family or a legal guardian, and "Students living with their parents take priority." Direct entry to DP1 is possible only for rare vacancies. From August 2026 tuition is charged to students who have arrived in Finland from outside the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland or who live on a student residence permit (see price).
Stages and year groups Grades three upper secondary years: general line towards the ylioppilastutkinto; IB line: pre-DP and IB Diploma Programme (DP1-DP2). Two parallel programmes in one school. The Finnish-language general line follows the national lukio curriculum and ends with the ylioppilastutkinto. IB line: the preparatory pre-DP year follows the Finnish national curriculum but is taught in English, followed by the two-year IB Diploma Programme in English; "At least seven students are required to subscribe to a subject in order for courses to run." No other IB programmes (PYP, MYP, CP) appear on the website.
Address Ahertajantie 5, 02100 Espoo
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · DP · authorised programmePASCH · takes part in the programmeThe IB register lists the Diploma Programme at the school; it runs as a separate English-language line with a preparatory year alongside the Finnish upper secondary programme and the ylioppilastutkinto matriculation exam. The school is listed in the PASCH network as a school offering the German language diploma DSD.
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IBInternational Baccalaureate
A Swiss non-profit, working since 1968. Its programmes are among the most widely recognised school programmes in the world. Authorisation is granted stage by stage, so a school with the final stage does not necessarily run the younger ones; which stages this school holds is set out in the line below.
What the badge means for this school. The school is allowed to run this programme and to award its certificate. This is a confirmation of the programme, not a judgement on the school as a whole. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it. At this school: DP (ages 16-19). DP is the final stage, ages 16 to 19: six subjects plus a compulsory core of theory of knowledge, an extended essay and CAS. The diploma is accepted by universities all over the world, and in a number of countries it counts for admission on the same footing as the local leaving certificate.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →PASCHSchools: Partners for the Future, an initiative of the German foreign ministry
More than two thousand schools in about 120 countries. A school cannot apply for itself: participants are chosen by German agencies in agreement with the embassy. Very different schools sit under one mark - full German schools abroad, and ordinary national schools that simply teach German well.
What the badge means for this school. The school belongs to a German support programme. By itself the mark means neither a German curriculum nor the right to award a German certificate: of the two thousand PASCH schools, about seventeen hundred hold no such right. Look for a ZfA status next to it - that is the one that is about this. The entry is confirmed in the organisation's open directory.
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The state school programme of the country the school stands in: it is set by that country's ministry of education, which also licenses the school and awards the leaving certificate. That certificate is used for entry to local universities, and abroad it is matched to the local one.
What this means for this school. This entry does not count towards the score, and that is deliberate. Every lawful school in a country works to the national programme, so on its own it tells one school apart from no other - unlike the French, German or Russian programmes, which are carried abroad and confirmed by the register of their organisation. We show it because a parent needs to know what programme their child is taught and what certificate the child will get. Counting it would lift the whole ranking at once and still tell nobody apart.
Exams and destinations from the school's official website
The school publishes nothing about where its leavers go: no share going on to university, no exam results, no list of universities.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
·Sports hallnot stated on the website
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
·Librarynot stated on the website
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: Since January 2000 the school has occupied the historic WeeGee building in central Tapiola, a former printing house; the classrooms were converted from the printing halls. Good public transport connections nearby.
Clubs and activities: Debating Society · Keke-ryhmä (sustainability group) · Studia Generalia (lecture series) · Lukiolaisten sijoittajakoulu (investor school for upper secondary students) · Nuori yrittäjyys (youth entrepreneurship project) · EYP (European Youth Parliament)
Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their qualifications.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
·CCTVnot stated on the website
·Security staffnot stated on the website
·Access controlnot stated on the website
✓Nurse or medical room
✓Counsellor
✓Child protection policy
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policy
The nurse sees students without an appointment; there is a psychologist, a curator (social worker), special education teachers and a community counsellor; welfare services are free and confidential. The school has two trained harassment contact persons, the student council has drawn up safer space principles, and a procedure for intervening in bullying is published for students.
Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)82 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data55 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data75 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data60 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data76 Value for money (6%) scored at the median95 "Scored on disclosed data" stands where we count only what the school has written about itself on its own site: exams and destinations, safety and wellbeing, teaching staff, facilities, clubs and activities. A low score here means the school does not write about this, not that the school does not have it: a school with good security and a sparse site will score low. A school can fill in its profile, and the score will be counted again.
The score is counted from 7 of the 9 criteria.Only those with checkable data count: programmes and accreditations from official registers, the fee from a published price list. Where it says "scored on the median", the school has no data and the middle of the list is put in its place, so that a gap gives no advantage. Admissions, teaching staff and reviews come in as their data arrives.
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Espoo, Finland · est. 1963 · State