Oulun Lyseo Upper Secondary School
school in Oulu, Finland
Oulun Lyseon Lukio (Oulu Lyseo Upper Secondary School) is a Finnish upper secondary school in the city of Oulu in northern Finland. The school has over 60 teachers and about 750 students. In addition to the Finnish national curriculum the school provides the option to study the International Baccalaureate programme in English. Since 2018 Lyseo has a distance teaching campus in the small town of Tyrnävä. In 2018 255 students, of which 50 took the IB programme, were accepted to the school .
History
In the autumn of 1874, Oulun lyseo started as a private Lyceum and it adopted Finnish as the official academical language. During the 1880s the school was admitted state aid and gradually the schools ownership was changed as state owned. In 1891 the first graduates were graduated from the state owned Oulun Lyseo.
Since 1992 Oulun Lyseon lukio has been authorized to teach the IB Diploma Programme.
Building
Oulun Lyseo moved to the current school building in 1890.
The public source identifies “Oulun Lyseo Upper Secondary School” as school in Oulu, Finland. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Oulun, Lyseo and Upper.
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