Katedralskolan in Lund calls itself the oldest school in Scandinavia: it was founded by the Danish king Canute the Holy in 1085. Today it is a municipal upper secondary school of Lund in the historic town centre with about 1500 students and 160 staff. Programmes: economics, natural science, social science, a specialist history programme (spetsutbildning) with university-level courses and the IB Diploma Programme, which the school has offered since 2001 and which has about 220 students. The national programmes are taught in Swedish, the IB including the preparatory year entirely in English; many IB students do not have Swedish as their mother tongue. The school is traditionally a language school: besides English it teaches French, Spanish, German, Danish, Italian and Latin, and in year 3 students can take the DELF, DELE and DSD language diplomas free of charge. The natural science programme has worked with Lund University for 20 years (the KatteMatte course with an exam at the university). All teachers are certified, fifteen of a hundred hold a research degree, and many have won national teaching prizes.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · DP · National programme
Languages of instruction
Swedish, English
Languages taught
French, Spanish, German, Danish, Italian, Latin
Students per teacher
about 15 students per teacher (the school cites about 1500 students and a hundred teachers)
About the fees Katedralskolan is a municipal upper secondary school of Lund, and tuition is free, as in all Swedish municipal schools; the school has no separate fees page. Students take the DELF, DELE and DSD language diplomas free of charge.
Admissions The IB preparatory year (PDP) requires nine years of school (Swedish compulsory school or equivalent) and passed placement tests in English and Mathematics at compulsory school level. Applications go to Gymnasieantagningen by 15 February, late applications by 15 May; foreign students send their application directly to the municipal admissions office by email. IBDP1 (the second year) admits students who have completed the PDP, MYP5 or an equivalent grade 10. Students moving to Skåne during upper secondary should contact the Lund admissions office; under the Fritt sök agreement one can apply to any upper secondary school in Skåne and western Blekinge, but a place at a municipal school in one's new town is not guaranteed. National programmes follow the general Swedish admission rules, with decisions published on 1 July.
Stages and year groups Grades 10-12. Upper secondary school, three years (ages 16-19). National programmes in Swedish (gymnasieexamen): Ekonomiprogrammet, Naturvetenskapsprogrammet (with the KatteMatte course), Samhällsvetenskapsprogrammet, Spetsutbildning i historia; advanced tracks in English, mathematics and modern languages. IB Diploma Programme: the PDP preparatory year in English (Swedish grades in some subjects and IB grades of 1 to 7 in all), then the two-year Diploma: six subjects, three at Higher and three at Standard Level, Theory of Knowledge, CAS, the Extended Essay; exams in May, internal assessment about 25% of the final grade. DP subjects: Swedish A, English A, other mother tongues self-taught; English B, Swedish B, Swedish ab initio; History, Economics, Business Management, Psychology, Environmental Systems and Societies; Biology, Chemistry, Physics; two mathematics courses; Visual Arts. Separately the school administers the DELF, DELE and DSD language exams - exams, not programmes.
Address Grönegatan 21, 222 24 Lund
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · DP · authorised programmePASCH · takes part in the programmeThe school is listed in the IB register and runs the Diploma Programme. The IB track runs inside a Swedish upper-secondary school, alongside the Swedish national programmes. The school is part of the PASCH network.
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 →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 hall
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Clubs and activities: Elevkåren (student union) · Ethics Bowl · Katedralskolan Business Club · Kate K-pop Dance Club · IBAA - International Baccalaureate Alumno Association · Kattes balkommitté (prom committee) · Education UK · Katedralskolans kör (choir)
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
✓Teacher qualifications
✓Number of teachers100
✓Students per teacher or class sizein the key facts above
What the listings show: all certified in their subjects, fifteen of a hundred with a research degree
The school says all its teachers are certified in the subjects they teach and fifteen of its hundred teachers hold a research degree in addition to their teaching degree. The staff include textbook authors and winners of national prizes from the Royal Academy of Letters, the Swedish Academy, the Royal Academy of Sciences and others.
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 roomnot stated on the website
✓Counsellor
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policy
The school aims for a safe environment free of discrimination, harassment and degrading treatment. Each class has two trusted students who receive external training and meet the school counsellors regularly; student safety representatives monitor the physical and social environment, including bullying. Each class meets its mentor weekly.
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 data65 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data70 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data70 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.
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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Lund, Sweden · est. 1085 · State