Manglerud skole is an Oslo municipal school for grades 1 to 10 (barneskole and ungdomsskole) in the Østensjø district, opened in 1957. According to the school, in the 2021-2022 school year it had about 960 students and 150 staff. Most of the school teaches the Norwegian LK20 curriculum in Norwegian. Since 2016 the school has hosted the international classes (Manglerud International Classes), a city-wide programme in English for children living in Oslo: the IB Primary Years Programme in grades 1-6 and the IB Middle Years Programme in grades 7-10, incorporating Norwegian curriculum requirements; Norwegian is taught three hours a week, and French is added in middle school. The international classes are a municipal project renewed every two years. Education is free. The school has long traditions of a choir (more than 50 years) and a marching band, strong sports facilities with a pool and an ice-hockey rink; it takes part in the Hjertesone safe route to school programme.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · PYP, MYP · National programme
Languages of instruction
Norwegian, English
Languages taught
German, Spanish, French
About the fees Education is free, as at all Oslo municipal schools, including the international classes. The only paid services are after-school care (AKS) for Years 1-4 at Oslo municipal rates, where some part-time places are free, and the extracurricular choir and band: the choir fee is 800 NOK per semester with a sibling discount.
Admissions Children enter the Norwegian part of the school by place of residence, as at any Oslo municipal school. The international classes are a city-wide programme for children with the right to education in Oslo municipality: the family must live in Oslo, proof of address is required before enrolment, and families moving to Oslo can apply in advance. The programme is primarily for three groups: children from abroad living in Oslo temporarily before returning home or moving to a third country; children from Oslo who will soon move abroad and continue at an English-speaking or IB school; Norwegian children returning from abroad, with an international background or wishing to complete an IB education. It is not an English language learning programme: Years 1-2 require at least one year at an English-speaking kindergarten or school, Years 3-10 a year at an English-speaking school within the last two years and documented English level, possibly with an interview. If places are short, siblings of students have priority, and other places are allocated by ballot within the groups. For the 2026-2027 school year there were 23 places in Year 1 and places in Years 2-10 subject to availability; the deadline is 13 April, later applications go on a waiting list. Required are passports and residence permit documents for the child and parents, a certificate of residence and, for those staying temporarily, a work contract with an end date.
Stages and year groups Grades 1-10. Norwegian grunnskole under the LK20 curriculum: barnetrinn grades 1-7 and ungdomstrinn grades 8-10, with a foreign language from grade 8 (German, Spanish, French) or advanced English; after grade 10, grunnskolepoeng for admission to videregående. International classes (Manglerud International Classes): IB Primary Years Programme in grades 1-6 (authorised in January 2019) and IB Middle Years Programme in grades 7-10 (authorised in March 2023), in English, incorporating Norwegian curriculum requirements; the MYP has eight subject groups in grades 7-9 and at least six in grade 10, with English, Norwegian as a second language and French. Grades are given from Year 7, and ISA tests in reading and mathematics are held in Years 4, 6 and 8 of the international classes. There is no kindergarten.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · PYP, MYP · authorised programmeThe school is listed in the IB register and runs the Primary Years and Middle Years programmes. The IB programmes run in the international classes of a municipal school, alongside the Norwegian compulsory-school curriculum.
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: PYP (ages 3-12), MYP (ages 11-16). PYP is the primary stage, ages 3 to 12. It is not a set of subjects but a frame for the whole school: learning is built around lines of inquiry, and there are no exams at the end. MYP is the middle stage, ages 11 to 16. There are no exams here either; at the end an optional electronic assessment of pupils' work is possible.
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 pool
✓Sports hall
✓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
Also on site: Sports ground or field · Art studio · Playground
Clubs and activities: Manglerud skoles kor (school choir) · Manglerud og Høyenhall skolekorps (school brass band) · Elevrådet (student council) · Manglerud Star Fotball (football) · Manglerud Star ishockey (ice hockey)
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 names the homeroom and subject teachers of the Norwegian part and the staff of the international classes: PYP and MYP homeroom teachers, teachers of English, Norwegian, French, mathematics, sciences, humanities, arts, music and design, the PYP and MYP coordinators, the support and inclusion coordinator and social teachers. The teaching, support and administrative staff of the international classes represent several nationalities; the school has a full-time teaching librarian.
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
Each level has its own school nurse from the Østensjø district health service, present four full days and Tuesday mornings: conversations, vaccinations under the national programme, parent guidance. There are social teachers, learning support, the PPT educational-psychological service and the BUP child psychiatric service; dental care is free for children. The school declares zero tolerance of bullying, violence, discrimination and harassment under the Education Act, has the TROA well-being programme and local rules of conduct; Oslo has an independent ombudsman against bullying.
Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)72 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 data75 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data73 "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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Oslo, Norway · est. 1957 · State