Seinäjoen lukio is a municipal upper secondary school (lukio) in the centre of Seinäjoki, by its own description a large general upper secondary school with a wide course offering. The Ministry of Education and Culture has granted the school permission to teach in English and to arrange the ylioppilastutkinto in English. On the English-language Engees-linja about 30 credits of the core curriculum (mathematics, English, physics, chemistry, biology, history, psychology, religion, philosophy, geography, health education, visual arts) are taught in English using Finnish materials, and the rest in Finnish; most of the school studies in Finnish. The school is a Cambridge exam centre. Original: 'Seinäjoen lukio is also a Cambridge school that has been authorised to arrange exams such as IGCSE, AS and A levels, AICE diploma.' Engees-linja students may optionally take AS and A Level exams in the subjects they studied, in addition to the ylioppilastutkinto. There is a sports academy, a school theatre, lukiodiplomi in eight creative subjects, courses with Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences (SeAMK) and 8-10 Erasmus+ international projects a year. The school also runs an adult line (aikuislinja) with its own website.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · A-Level · National programme
Languages of instruction
Finnish, English
Languages taught
Swedish, German, French, Russian, Spanish, Japanese
About the fees The school is municipal; it does not state any tuition fee on its website. University courses taken during studies are partly paid by the student; SeAMK pathway courses (väyläopinnot) are free.
Admissions Through the joint application (yhteishaku) the school admits 290 students ranked by the average of academic subjects on the basic education certificate; applicants also fill in an electronic subject choice form. Engees-linja is for those with an English grade of at least 9 in lower secondary school; if there are more than 25 applicants, selection is by group interview and written tasks. Sports academy applicants submit a separate application.
Stages and year groups Grades upper secondary after grade 9, 3 years. Finnish lukio curriculum (150 credits, usually in 3 years) with the ylioppilastutkinto, which the school may also arrange in English; Engees-linja with 30 credits in English; optional AS and A Level exams in the subjects studied. The school is a Cambridge exam centre (IGCSE, AS, A Level, AICE); it names no separate Cambridge programme or IGCSE course.
Address Kirkkokatu 16, 60100 Seinäjoki
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · A-Level · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as a Cambridge centre. Students on its English-language line can take AS and A Level exams at the school in the subjects they study, in addition to the Finnish ylioppilastutkinto.
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
CambridgeCambridge International Education
Part of the University of Cambridge. It allows a school to teach the Cambridge programmes and to enter pupils for the exams. There are four stages and they are authorised separately: primary, lower secondary, IGCSE and A Level. If the stages are known they are named in the line below; if that line is missing, the school does not publish them, and the Cambridge registry does not show stages either - it gives only the name of the centre, the country and whether private candidates are accepted. Cambridge calls what it does registration rather than accreditation, and the network holds about ten thousand schools.
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: A-Level (ages 16-18). A-Level is the senior years, and their results are what British and many other universities admit on.
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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 hall
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
✓Theatre or assembly hall
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: A building of four wings (A-D): humanities and visual arts, languages, sports and music, natural sciences, mathematics and IT. A sports hall and a mirror hall, an assembly hall, the Verstas rehearsal stage of the school theatre, a self-service library, a canteen and about 700 lockable lockers.
Clubs and activities: Finanssiklubi (finance club) · NY - vuosi yrittäjänä (a year as an entrepreneur) · Ambassador School (European Parliament Ambassador School) · Lukioteatteri (school theatre) · HappyHour (homework help club) · Filosofinen lukupiiri (philosophy reading circle) · Urheiluakatemia (sports academy) · Opiskelijakunta (student council)
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 website lists the teachers of the school and of the adult line with their subjects and rooms; English-taught courses, including business courses, have dedicated teachers. The school does not state the total number of teachers or 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
✓Counsellor
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
Two school social workers (kuraattori), a school nurse with open hours every weekday and a separate nurse for immigrant students, a psychologist with remote appointments, two special education teachers and a school youth worker. The school rules prohibit violence, bullying, discrimination and harassment.
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 data80 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 Value for money (6%) scored at the median95 "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 7 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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