Katedralskolan in Uppsala is a municipal upper secondary school of Uppsala in the city centre. It offers the humanities programme (culture and languages tracks), natural science, social and behavioural science programmes, introductory programmes including Swedish for newly arrived students, and the three-year IB Diploma Programme. The national programmes are taught in Swedish and the IB in English. The school is a PASCH partner with the Goethe-Institut and holds alumni meetings for former German students; the humanities programme offers Latin, and Japanese and Russian are available for beginners. The school's average IB Diploma score in recent years has been 31-33 against a world average of about 30-33. The school has been selected by Uppsala University for teacher training placements. The student union runs many societies, the sports club trains football, basketball and floorball, and students stage a musical every spring.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · DP · National programme
Languages of instruction
Swedish, English
Languages taught
French, German, Spanish, Latin, Japanese
About the fees Katedralskolan is a municipal upper secondary school of Uppsala, and tuition is free, as in all Swedish municipal schools; the school has no separate fees page.
Admissions The IB preparatory year (Pre-DP) has a science track and a societies track. Requirements: a meritvärde of at least 240 and at least grade C in English; for the societies track at least D in Mathematics, for the science track at least C in Mathematics and the natural sciences; after the MYP a certificate of at least 28 points. Uppsala residents apply through Dexter by early February (first deadline 5 February, second 5 May), with a final decision by 1 July; applicants from other Swedish regions and the Nordic countries use the school's form by 5 February, and Nordic residents apply on the same terms as local residents. Families moving from abroad apply for early admission from 1 November to 20 December to the Pre-DP or DP1, with a reply by 15 January: EU citizens are welcome if moving with at least one legal guardian (without a guardian if places are available), non-EU citizens if a guardian holds or is applying for a work or student permit; applications are assessed individually and entrance tests may apply. Transfers into DP1 require completion of the Pre-DP or the first year of a Swedish university preparatory programme with all subjects passed and at least C in Mathematics and English (applications 15 January to 15 April), or an MYP certificate of at least 28 points. Late applications are accepted if places are available.
Stages and year groups Grades 10-12. Upper secondary school, three years (ages 16-19). National programmes in Swedish (gymnasieexamen): Humanistiska programmet (culture, languages), Naturvetenskapsprogrammet, Samhällsvetenskapsprogrammet (social and behavioural sciences), introductory programmes (Språkintroduktion for newly arrived students, individual). IB Diploma Programme: the Pre-DP preparatory year with Swedish grades A-F, science track (English, Swedish, Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Mathematics, Social Studies, a modern language) or societies track (English, Swedish, Social Studies, History, Natural Science, Mathematics, a modern language, Arts), with at least 700 passed points needed to continue; then the two-year Diploma: three subjects at Higher and three at Standard Level. DP subjects: Swedish, English, self-taught Language A; English, Swedish, French, German, Spanish (B or ab initio); Economics, Global Politics, History, Psychology, Philosophy; Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Environmental Systems and Societies; mathematics at three levels; Visual Arts. The school is a PASCH partner (Goethe-Institut) for German.
Address Skolgatan 2, 753 12 Uppsala
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
Average IB score
31 (world average 30.88)
Exam results The school's average IB Diploma score by year (world average in brackets): 2019-2020 - 33 (31,2), 2020-2021 - 33 (33), 2021-2022 - 31 (32), 2022-2023 - 31 (30,2), 2023-2024 - 32 (30,3), 2024-2025 - 31 (30,6).
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
·Sports hallnot stated on the website
✓Laboratories
✓Theatre or assembly hall
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: The building on Skolgatan in central Uppsala has recently been completely renovated: modern laboratories, well-equipped classrooms and communal areas for relaxing and working together, and an auditorium where the school musical is staged every spring. The school restaurant Vasaköket cooks with mainly organic produce, with several dishes daily including a vegetarian option and a salad bar; in 2020 the kitchen team was nominated in four categories of White Guide Junior. The library, with a librarian, has about 13000 books and 30 magazines, study places and access to databases; it is open 08:00-16:00. It is a day school; IB students from other parts of Sweden can find accommodation through Uppsala Gymnasieboende.
Clubs and activities: Elevkåren (student union and its societies) · KIF - Kattes idrottsförening (sports club: football, basketball, floorball) · Kattemusikalen (school musical)
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
✓Teacher qualifications
·Number of teachersthe school does not say
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
What the listings show: school selected by Uppsala University for student teacher placements
The school speaks of skilled teachers and of being selected by Uppsala University to train its student teachers. It does not publish teacher qualifications, staff numbers or class sizes.
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
·Counsellornot stated on the website
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The school's student health team contributes to health promotion and prevention and supports students' development; the team's composition is not listed on the website. Newly arrived students in the introductory programme have a mentor and regular conversations about their studies and wellbeing.
Reviews
No reviews yet. The community rating counts towards the score once a school has five verified reviews - until then we do not show a zero, so as not to mislead.
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 data80 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data55 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data80 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data67 "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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