← Back to the rankingSolrød Gymnasium
Solrod Strand, Denmark · est. 1978 · State
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Solrød Gymnasium is a state upper secondary school on Køge Bay in Solrød Strand, south of Copenhagen; its building opened in 1978. About 650 students attend: the three-year STX programme (10 study lines) and the two-year HF (3 subject packages, with the option of adding a university package), taught in Danish. The school is proud of its own timetable: 100-minute modules, the hardest subjects in the morning, lessons ending at 14:00 on Tuesdays and Fridays, and the last block given over to clubs; in the first year every student must join at least 2 clubs. A distinctive feature is the optional Cambridge courses in Mathematics and Chemistry, taught in English at IGCSE, AS and A Level, which the school has offered since 2017 as a Cambridge Associate School, though not every year. There is a Team Danmark programme for athletes, strong students take part in competitions such as Georg Mohr, and in the second year everyone goes on a study trip to a European city.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · National programme
Languages of instruction
Danish
Languages taught
English, German, French, Spanish, Latin
Students
about 650 (almost 660 on the STX and HF pages)
Class size
on average 30 students in the first year of the three-year track, 27 in the second and 26 in the third; on the two-year track 29 in the first year and 23 in the second
About the fees The school does not state any tuition fee on its website. At the start students pay for meals in the first week and materials: 350 DKK on HF and 500 DKK on STX; the second-year study trip costs at most 4500 DKK, and for shorter excursions students pay their own transport (exemption possible). The Cambridge courses are free for the school's students, who pay for textbooks and the exam, about 1200 DKK.
Admissions Applications for STX and HF are made through the optagelse.dk portal by 1 March; the school asks applicants to put it as first priority, and in recent years its classes were filled at once by first-priority applicants. Applicants hear by 15 May whether they have a place. The required grade point average from lower secondary school is needed; those without it can take an entrance test. Places are allocated between gymnasiums according to the general rules described on UddannelsesGuiden.
Stages and year groups Grades STX 1g-3g, HF 1-2, 20 classes. Danish upper secondary programmes taught in Danish: STX over 3 years (10 study lines: science, social science, business, languages, arts) and HF over 2 years (Mediepakken, Samfundspakken and Sundhedspakken packages, with an optional university package after HF), leading to the studentereksamen and the HF exam. The school has 20 classes: 8 parallel classes in 1g, 6 in 2g, 5 in 3g and 2 in each HF year. Cambridge (additional and optional): in the years when the courses run, students can take Cambridge courses in Mathematics and Chemistry as early as 2g or the second year of HF; they are taught entirely in English and start in January. Mathematics: Cambridge IGCSE International Mathematics (Extended level, recommended for all) and Cambridge AS and A Level Mathematics; Chemistry: Cambridge IGCSE Chemistry, AS and A Level Chemistry. The Mathematics course ends with three written Cambridge exams, and students receive an international certificate. The courses are open to all students regardless of grades. The school has been a Cambridge Associate School since 2017 and has a Cambridge exams officer.
Address Solrød Center 2, 2680 Solrød Strand
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre: STX and HF students can take optional Cambridge courses in maths and chemistry at IGCSE and AS/A Level; the courses do not run every year. The main programmes are the Danish STX and HF.
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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: IGCSE (ages 14-16), A-Level (ages 16-18). IGCSE means exams at around Year 10 or 11, the British counterpart of a lower secondary leaving certificate. 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
Exam results Average leaving exam grades: in 2026 7.5 on STX and 6.9 on HF (the school's own calculation), in 2025 7.1 on STX and 5.9 on HF against national averages of 7.5 and 6.0, in 2024 7.2 and 6.0, in 2023 7.4 and 6.5. Completion rates were 94% on STX and 84% on HF (2021/2022). The school does not publish Cambridge exam results.
Facilities from the school's official website
✓Swimming pool
✓Sports hall
✓Laboratories
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Art studio
Campus: The long red-brick gymnasium building, opened in 1978 and designed by the architects Friis & Moltke, stands in the centre of Solrød Strand, 200 metres from cafés, a fitness centre and public transport; the town library Solrød Bibliotek is in the same building. The two-storey school is built along a tall indoor street with windows onto two south-facing courtyards: a science wing, a creative subjects wing, subject rooms, a student lounge, a multimedia room, an assembly hall with canteen, large classrooms, study areas, band rehearsal rooms, a student council room and a homework café. For sport the school uses the Solrød Idrætscenter sports centre and swimming pool, where it has priority. The building is wheelchair accessible.
Clubs and activities: Filosofisk debatklub (philosophy debating club) · Bordtennisklub (table tennis club) · Klub for kreativ matematik (creative maths club) · Cykelklub (cycling club) · Medieklub (media club) · Muscle-Up-klub (calisthenics) · English Poetry · Klassikerklub (classics club) · Dramaklub (drama club) · Kunstklub (art club) · Filmklub (film club) · Bogklub (book club) · Styrketræning (strength training) · Arabisk (Arabic) · SG-band · Lektiecafé (homework help) · Elevrådet (student council) · Fredagscafé (Friday café) · Georg Mohr-Konkurrencen (Georg Mohr maths competition) · Team Danmark (programme for elite athletes)
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
✓Number of teachers50
✓Students per teacher or class sizein the key facts above
The school has 67 staff, including 50 full-time teacher posts (figures as of 3 December 2024). Each class has a teacher team and a class teacher. The Cambridge courses are taught by the Mathematics teacher Michael Blomgren Krøl, who has taught at IGCSE, AS and A Level and completed Extension Training IGCSE Mathematics, and by the Chemistry and Biotechnology teacher Henrik Birkedal. There are three study counsellors, a reading counsellor and an external counsellor from Studievalg Danmark.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
✓CCTV
·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 an anti-bullying strategy, study and conduct rules, policies on alcohol and drugs, smoking, media and written assignments, a grief and crisis plan and a procedure for violence and harassment; there is video surveillance under separate rules. Students are supported by study counsellors, mentors for those needing special support and a reading counsellor for students with dyslexia; the whistleblower scheme is also open to students. School parties follow the law on gymnasium parties with an emphasis on safety.
Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)85 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 data75 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data70 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data85 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 Value for money (6%) scored at the median83 "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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