Per Brahegymnasiet (PB) is a municipal upper secondary school in Jönköping, one of the city's four municipal high schools, founded in 1913 and housed in a historic building in the city centre. It has about 1400 students in the IB Diploma Programme and the Arts and Music, Social Science, Natural Science and Economics programmes; the site also lists a Humanities programme. The IB Diploma Programme has been offered since 1995, with the first graduates in 1998. The IB track starts with a PreIB preparatory year mostly following the Swedish curriculum, followed by two DP years; the IB language of instruction is English except for Swedish A, and graduates receive a bilingual diploma. The school's other programmes are taught in Swedish. IB students come from all over the world, but most are from Jönköping and neighbouring counties. The school's vision is creativity and commitment with an international focus; students are encouraged to engage beyond academics, from environmental issues and culture to human rights.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · DP · National programme
Languages of instruction
Swedish, English
About the fees Tuition is free for Swedish citizens and residents: the IB programme is funded by the municipal budget and state grants, and lunches and learning materials are also free. International students without residence permits or citizenship pay about 10000 EUR per school year; no year is given for this amount. Students living more than 6 km from school receive a bus or train pass, and those living far away can get a boarding allowance from their municipality.
Admissions Swedish students apply through the common upper secondary admissions system of Jönköping county; the IB accepts students from all over Sweden. All applicants who chose the IB as their first, second or third choice take entrance tests in mathematics and English at year 9 level (in March), and results are weighed with grades; the school recommends a grade of C or above in mathematics and English. After Swedish grundskola, eligibility for a theoretical programme is required: passes in Swedish, mathematics, English and 9 other subjects; students who arrived in Sweden in year 8 or later may apply as quota students with an exception for Swedish. International students outside the Swedish system need two forms (to the school and to the county) and evidence of a completed year 9; tests can be taken at their current school. EU passport holders and non-EU citizens with permanent residence or a work visa are welcome to apply; applicants under 18 must be registered in the region with a guardian or contact person resident in Sweden. International applicants without residence permits or citizenship are accepted only if places are available and pay fees. If eligible applicants exceed capacity, selection follows criteria approved by the Schools Inspectorate. Entry to IB1 and IB2 is possible on grades and entrance exams.
Stages and year groups Grades 10-12. Swedish gymnasieskola: Arts, Economics, Humanities, Natural Science and Social Science programmes in Swedish leading to the gymnasieexamen. IB Diploma Programme since 1995: a PreIB preparatory year (English, history, mathematics, science studies, social science, Swedish or Swedish as a second language, physical education, psychology, an optional modern language, an IB introduction course), then DP1 and DP2: Swedish A, English A or another native language; Swedish B or English B; Economics, History, Psychology; Biology, Physics, Chemistry, ESS; Mathematics Analysis and Approaches or Applications and Interpretation; an additional subject from groups 2-4; TOK, CAS, Extended Essay. Exams in May, grades from 1 to 7; graduation in June with the national programmes and IB diploma presentation at the end of August.
Address Residensgatan 7, 553 16 Jönköping
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.
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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
Campus: The school was founded in 1913 and occupies a historic building with arches and large stone staircases in the centre of Jönköping, which the school considers one of the most beautiful in the city; the bus and train station is nearby. There is a library, a school kitchen (lunches are free for students) and the Brahesalen auditorium, where IB diplomas are formally presented at the end of August. Natural Science students go on study trips, for example to the Klubban biological station and Lund University. The school is open to students on school days from 7:30 to 17:00. There is no boarding: students live at home or rent an apartment in town.
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 room
·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
Student health: school nurses assigned to programmes (including the IB), a counsellor, a school chaplain, a special educational needs coordinator, special needs teachers, student assistants and a youth leader. The school says its students and staff value each other's differences.
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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 data60 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 data55 "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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Jonkoping, Sweden · est. 1913 · State