Gjøvik videregående skole is a public upper secondary school run by Innlandet county in central Gjøvik and one of the largest in the county: about 1200 students and 220 staff. The present school combines four former schools of the town, Tranberg, Fredheim, Gjøvik and Bondelia; its gymnasium history goes back to the town school of 1873. It offers many programmes: studiespesialisering, music, dance and drama, art, design and architecture, media and communication, IT and media production, health and childcare, building and construction, hairdressing and interior design, sales and tourism; the school also teaches at Vestoppland prison. The international line consists of the preparatory year Vg1 International (pre-IB) and the two-year IB Diploma Programme in Vg2-Vg3, where all lessons except Norwegian are in English; the Diploma Programme has 40-50 students. Other programmes are taught in Norwegian under the national LK20 curriculum. In 2015 the school received Queen Sonja's school prize for inclusive schools.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · DP · National programme
Languages of instruction
Norwegian, English
About the fees The school is public and run by Innlandet county; tuition is free and there are no school fees. A laptop is required (a school one under a county agreement or one's own). The state fund Lånekassen provides an equipment grant and a housing grant for students living more than 40 km from the school.
Admissions Admission to upper secondary is through vigo.no: the main deadline is 1 March, and 1 February for applicants entitled to individual assessment or priority; applications are made every year. There are no specific requirements for the pre-IB year, but the school recommends a grade average of about 4, and places are competitive. The IB Diploma Programme (Vg2-Vg3) admits Norwegian citizens and foreign nationals with a residence permit; residents of Innlandet county have priority. Applicants must have completed Vg1 studiespesialisering, the final MYP year (for example at Gjøvikregionen International School) or an equivalent level in Norway or abroad. Admission is competitive by grade average: 30 places per cohort, an average normally of at least 4 and no grades below 4 in key subjects; in special cases applicants with a lower average are considered. Foreign documents must be sent to the county admissions office by 1 March, and grades are converted to Norwegian grades.
Stages and year groups Norwegian upper secondary school (videregående skole) under the LK20 curriculum with the vitnemål diploma: studiespesialisering (science or languages, social sciences and economics), musikk, dans og drama, kunst, design og arkitektur, medier og kommunikasjon, informasjonsteknologi og medieproduksjon, helse- og oppvekstfag including a track with university admission, bygg- og anleggsteknikk, frisør, blomster, interiør og eksponeringsdesign, salg, service og reiseliv, plus prison education and a follow-up class. International line: Vg1 International (pre-IB, the Norwegian Vg1 studiespesialisering curriculum with most subjects in English) and the IB Diploma Programme in Vg2-Vg3: six subjects, three at higher and three at standard level, plus TOK, the extended essay and CAS. Diploma subjects: English Language and Literature, Norwegian Literature, school-supported self-taught literature in the mother tongue (SSST), Norwegian B, psychology, history, biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics AA and AI at standard level, and from 2026-2027 Visual Arts. Students who do not obtain the diploma can still qualify for Norwegian higher education with 20 points and at least 3 in all subjects.
Address Ludvig Skattumsgate 23, 2819 Gjøvik
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · DP · authorised programmeThe school is listed in the IB register and runs the Diploma Programme. The IB track runs inside a Norwegian upper-secondary school: after a preparatory year (pre-IB) in Vg1 comes the Diploma in Vg2-Vg3; alongside it runs the Norwegian studiespesialisering programme.
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.
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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
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: The school is in central Gjøvik in a large complex of several buildings. The library on the second floor above the canteen is open on weekdays from 8:00 to 15:15: study places for group and individual work, textbook loans, digital textbooks for students with dyslexia; it holds books in English, Norwegian, German and French. There is a canteen, workshops for vocational programmes, rooms for music, dance and drama, and for art and design. There is no boarding, but students living far away can rent a place in a dormitory; the state fund Lånekassen pays a housing grant to students living more than 40 km from the school.
Clubs and activities: MUN club · Creative writing club · Erasmus+ · Exchange with Kraków · FN Pluss-skole (partner school of the UN Association) · EE Symposium
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
·Number of teachersthe school does not say
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
The school has 220 staff. Many pre-IB teachers also teach in the Diploma Programme; all IB teachers also support students' English. IB students have a dedicated university guidance counsellor. Some teachers are specially trained to teach students with another mother tongue and in exchange pedagogy. The site names the school leadership and department heads, including the head of IB.
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
·Counsellornot stated on the website
✓Child protection policy
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policy
The school must follow chapter 12 of the Education Act: all staff monitor the safety of the environment, intervene against bullying and report it, and the head is responsible for investigation and an action plan; there is an action plan for the school environment and zero tolerance of bullying. Student services: an education and career counsellor, the school health service, a social-pedagogical counsellor, a social worker, a vocational coordinator, a diversity and minority language adviser, the anti-bullying ombudsman, the follow-up service and the educational-psychological service (PPT).
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 data70 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data70 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data76 "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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