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The International High School of the Gothenburg Region (IHGR) is a small municipal upper secondary school in central Göteborg where all education is in English. About 350 students of almost sixty nationalities attend, with 35 staff. The school runs four programmes: Swedish national programmes in English, the natural science NA Life Science and the social science SA Global Studies, its advanced version SA Global Studies Enriched (PACE) with university courses from Göteborgs universitet, and the IB Diploma Programme with a PreIB preparatory year. In the national programmes only Swedish itself is taught in Swedish; the school calls itself the only upper secondary school in Göteborg offering the Swedish curriculum in English. The school has had an exchange with Budapest since 2010, study trips to Kraków, active participation in the European Youth Parliament and many student clubs.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · DP · National programme
Languages of instruction
English
Languages taught
Swedish, French, Spanish
About the fees The school is municipal, run by the City of Göteborg; it states no tuition fee, and a municipal upper secondary school is free under Swedish law. IB students pay an IB exam fee of about 7500 SEK roughly six months before the final exams.
Admissions PreIB (grade 10) admits students after grade 9 on their grades and an entrance exam in English and mathematics (the mathematics part is also in English); applicants in Sweden apply via Mitt Gymnasieval, applicants abroad send the PreIB form to the Göteborg region admissions office plus the school online application. Students who have completed MYP 10, PreIB at another school or IGCSEs may apply directly to the two-year Diploma Programme (grade 11). Admission for 2027-2028 opens in December 2026: the first PreIB round closes on 1 February 2027, the second on 2 May 2027, and the DP in June 2027 or earlier when full. Exams are on 24 and 26 February 2027, late exams in May; for applicants abroad in January and April, and they can sit them at their current school under invigilation. NA Life Science and SA Global Studies admit on grade 9 results and require a Swedish grade from year 9; SA Global Studies Enriched also requires an English exam. Swedish for beginners is not offered in PreIB.
Stages and year groups Four programmes, all in English: NA Life Science Programme (the Swedish Naturvetenskapsprogrammet, all subjects except Swedish in English, advanced courses in mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology), SA Global Studies Programme (the Swedish Samhällsvetenskapsprogrammet in English), SA Global Studies Programme Enriched - PACE (an advanced spets programme with accelerated English, rhetoric, academic writing, literature, linguistics and two 7.5 point university courses with Göteborgs universitet) and the IB Diploma Programme. IB: a PreIB preparatory year (English, Swedish, history, biology, chemistry, mathematics, modern language, physical education), then two DP years: six subjects plus the Extended Essay, TOK and CAS. DP subjects: English and Swedish language and literature, mother tongue literature, English, Swedish, French and Spanish as a second language, history, business management, psychology, environmental systems and societies, biology, chemistry, physics, computer science, two mathematics courses, visual arts. National programmes are graded A-F, the IB on a 1-7 scale.
Address Molinsgatan 6, 411 33 Göteborg
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · DP · authorised programmeThe school is listed in the IB register and runs the Diploma Programme. Alongside the IB the school runs Swedish national programmes taught in English.
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
✓Laboratories
·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
Clubs and activities: STUN - the Student Union · The ITCH · EYP - the European Youth Parliament · Football Club · IHGR Alumni Association · The Tea Society · Book Club · Debate Club · Dance Club · Dungeons & Dragons · STEM · Art Club · Ambassador Group
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 35 staff, with teachers from different countries; there is an IB coordinator, a national programmes coordinator, a special education teacher, a teacher assistant, a career counsellor and a librarian. The school keeps its list of teachers in the closed Vklass system.
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 policynot stated on the website
The student health team: a school nurse, a school counsellor and a special education teacher; a school doctor and a school psychologist visit on schedule. The school has a code of conduct, an attendance policy with mentors, a complaints procedure and an academic integrity policy.
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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 data65 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 "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.
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