Nesbru videregående skole is a public upper secondary school (videregående skole) of Akershus county, founded in 1980, in Billingstad in Asker municipality. It has about 900 students and about 140 staff. The school offers studiespesialisering with specialisation in natural sciences or languages, social studies and economics, the toppidrett subject for athletes, a vocational construction programme (concrete and masonry, carpentry, plumbing), classes for students who have recently moved to Norway and adapted education. Since 1993 the school has offered the IB Diploma Programme, the only public IB school in Asker and Bærum: in grade 11 (Vg1) students can choose the preparatory Pre-IB under the Norwegian curriculum with some lessons in English, and in grades 12-13 (Vg2-Vg3) the Diploma Programme itself in English, with up to 30 new students each year. The other programmes are taught in Norwegian. IB students take part in Model United Nations and the Model European Parliament and win places in the Unge forskere competition and olympiads.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · DP · National programme
Languages of instruction
Norwegian, English
Languages taught
German, French, Spanish, Chinese
About the fees Education is free, as in all public county upper secondary schools, including the IB Diploma Programme. The only extra cost is for online language courses in the IB (Spanish B, French B, Mandarin, French and Spanish ab initio) - approximately 15000 NOK per year per course.
Admissions Places are allocated by the county through the Vigo system: the deadline is 1 March (1 February for priority or individual assessment), and students must apply every year; admission is by grades. For the IB Diploma Programme students apply through Vigo with IB at Nesbru as first choice and also send the school's form by 1 March: transcripts for the latest term and the previous year, a short self-statement and two teacher references; an interview may be requested. Required is a Vg1 of a general studies programme with a grade average of at least 4.5, MYP 5, IGCSE or equivalent schooling of at least 10 years, good grades in mathematics and natural science and adequate English. The admission policy requires a valid Norwegian residence permit and an address in Akershus county by 1 March or evidence of moving by 1 July; a student under 18 coming from abroad must be registered with at least one parent. Applicants from abroad send the form to the school and their documents to the county admissions office. If there are more applicants than places, priority goes to Akershus residents, then to those moving from abroad or another county, then to students of other counties with a guest student guarantee from their home county. The school says its IB students come from Norwegian schools, international schools and families who have recently moved to Norway.
Stages and year groups Grades Vg1-Vg3 (11-13). A Norwegian upper secondary school under the LK20 curriculum, grades 11-13 (Vg1-Vg3). Studiespesialisering with realfag or languages, social studies and economics, leading to the vitnemål and studiekompetanse; toppidrett as a subject in studiespesialisering and in construction; bygg- og anleggsteknikk (Vg2 betong og mur, tømrer, rørlegger, then apprenticeship and fagbrev); påbygging til generell studiekompetanse; studiespesialisering for students with another first language; adapted education and adult education. IB track: Vg1 Studiespesialisering med forberedende International Baccalaureate (Pre-IB) under the Norwegian curriculum, with natural science, geography and social studies partly in English, then the IB Diploma Programme in Vg2-Vg3 entirely in English except Norwegian and other languages. DP subjects: Norwegian A Literature, English A Literature, other A languages self-taught, Norwegian B, English B, online Spanish B, French B and Mandarin, French and Spanish ab initio, History, Economics, Psychology, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics Analysis and Approaches and Applications and Interpretation, Visual Arts. The IB diploma is equivalent to the vitnemål from studiespesialisering.
Address Torstadåsen 7, 1396 Billingstad
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
·Librarynot stated on the website
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Clubs and activities: Model United Nations · Model European Parliament · Studieverkstedet (study workshop for homework) · Elevrådet (student council) · Unge forskere (young researchers competition) · Abelkonkurransen (Abel mathematics competition) · Norsk olympiade i astronomi og astrofysikk (astronomy and astrophysics olympiad)
Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their qualifications.
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 policy
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policy
The school has a student services team, counsellors and special education coordination. On its school environment page the school declares zero tolerance of bullying, violence, discrimination and harassment; by law every staff member must monitor, intervene and report, and the principal is responsible for investigation and an action plan. In the IB each class has a contact teacher, and there is an IB coordinator and a university counsellor.
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 data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data60 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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Asker, Norway · est. 1980 · State