← Back to the rankingFrederik II videregående skole
Fredrikstad, Norway · est. 1997 · State
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Frederik II videregående skole is a public upper secondary school run by Østfold county in Fredrikstad, named after the city's founder, the Danish-Norwegian king Frederik II. Its history goes back to the Fredrikstad Latin school founded around 1580; the present school was formed on 1 August 1997 by merging Frydenberg gymnasium with the neighbouring Christianslund school. The school operates in the Cicignon and Frydenberg departments. Teaching follows the Norwegian LK20 curriculum in Norwegian: studiespesialisering with specialisation in science or in languages, social sciences and economics, studiespesialisering with elite sport, a sports programme (idrettsfag) with elite football, handball and e-sports, a sales, service and tourism programme including a four-year track with university admission, and the adapted Sandveien department for students with special needs. The school takes part in Erasmus+, the MOT programme and the health-promoting schools network. The IB programme the school offered earlier is not in its current list of programmes.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · DP · National programme
Languages of instruction
Norwegian
Languages taught
English, Spanish, French, German
About the fees The school is public and run by Østfold county; tuition is free and there are no school fees. Students can receive an equipment grant from the state fund Lånekassen (deadline 15 November); all students are insured against injury under the county's agreement with the insurer KLP.
Admissions Admission to upper secondary is through vigo.no: the deadline is 1 March each year, or 1 February for applicants with priority or the right to individual assessment; applications are made every year, and admission is handled by Østfold county. To choose mathematics 1T in Vg1 the school requires at least grade 3 in mathematics from lower secondary. Students with another mother tongue may be entitled to special language tuition and can attend combination classes or preparatory courses before the regular programme. The school's pages do not say which foreign nationals it admits.
Stages and year groups Norwegian upper secondary school (videregående skole) under the LK20 curriculum with the vitnemål diploma: studiespesialisering (from Vg2 science or languages, social sciences and economics; programme subjects: mathematics R1, R2, 2P, physics, chemistry, biology, information technology, psychology, English 1 and 2, sociology, entrepreneurship, marketing, economics, law, media, culture and communication, politics and human rights), studiespesialisering with elite sport, idrettsfag, salg, service og reiseliv, the four-year YSK with vocational and university qualifications, and the adapted Sandveien department. The IB programme is not in the school's current list.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · DP · authorised programmeThe school is listed in the IB register and runs the Diploma Programme. The school has wound down its IB track: it is no longer in the current list of programmes, and the last cohort sat its exams in spring 2026. The IB register entry still remains for now.
school is in an official registryconfirmed by a school document, by membership or by taking part in a networkclaimed by the school, no confirmation, not counted in the scoreGuide to all organisations → What stands behind each entry
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 →National programme
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
✓Library
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: The school operates in two departments in Fredrikstad, Cicignon and Frydenberg, plus the adapted Sandveien department for about 25 students with its own workshop. There is a school library that also lends textbooks. Students get a free oatmeal porridge breakfast every day; informal activities are held in the midday break, both departments have table tennis tables, and there are also after-school activities. Every student works on a laptop, a school one or their own. It is a day school with no boarding.
Clubs and activities: Elevrådet (student council) · MOT (values and confidence programme) · Erasmus+ · Bordtennis (table tennis at break)
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 school has an action plan for a safe and good school environment; every student has the right to an environment free of bullying, violence, discrimination and harassment, and the student's own experience is the basis for follow-up. Under chapter 12 of the Education Act staff monitor, intervene, report and document measures. Student services: the school health service, counsellors and career guidance, a minority language adviser, a social therapist, a NAV adviser, the children and youth ombudsman, the educational-psychological service and the follow-up service. The school runs the MOT programme: each class has its own MOT coach and 12 sessions over three years.
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 data65 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data70 "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 8 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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