Grennaskolan
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| Established | 1963 |
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| Type | Municipally owned |
| Headmaster | Jessika Humphreys |
| Founder | Stockholm University |
| Website |
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Grennaskolan Boarding School is a Swedish boarding school located in Gränna, Jönköping County. Grennaskolan Boarding School was founded in 1963 by Stockholm University and has today approximately 200 students, half of whom are boarding school students and half of whom are international students.
The boarding school is one of the three elite boarding schools in Sweden, the others being Sigtunaskolan Humanistiska Läroverket and Lundsbergs Boarding School. Grennaskolan Boarding School AB is a wholly owned subsidiary of Rådhuset AB, which is fully owned by Jönköping Municipality.
Education
The school offers the MYP program from grades 7-9. The high school offers both Swedish and English programs. Students of the Swedish program focus either on humanities or science and mathematics. The English-speaking programme is the IB program International Baccalaureate.
Boarding
The school has approximately 200 students. Overall, half of the students are boarding students. There are currently two homes for boys and two homes for girls, where students aged 13–19 live.
Boardings houses for boys
- Postiljonen Norra
- Vulkanen
Boardings houses for girls
- Grevégården
- Postiljonen Södra
History
- 1963 - Founded
- 1965 - The first student from the school is graduated after 2.5 years of study
- 1968 - Grennaskolan opens its first foreign schools in Brighton, and a year later in Aix-en-Provence and Landshut
- 1970 - Grennaskolan participates in the first official International Baccalaureate or IB exam in 1970 along with ten other international schools from e.g. New York, Paris, Frankfurt and Geneve. However, apart from 1970, Grennaskolan does not proceed to offer the IB program until 1995
- 1970 - Grennaskolan becomes one of only three elite boarding schools in Sweden
- 1974 - Grennaskolan closes its foreign schools due to abolished student grants for foreign students
- 1978 - Jönköping Municipality is now responsible for the school
- 1988 - Grennaskolan starts its MYP program from grades 7-9
- 1995 - Grennaskolan is now spelled with an "e". The International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, IB, with all instruction in English starts
- 1997 - Grennaskolan Riksinternat AB becomes a fully owned subsidiary of Jönköping Municipality
- 2013 - Celebrating their 50th anniversary.
Alumni
- Urban Bäckström, CEO of Confederation of Swedish Enterprise and former Governor of Sveriges Riksbank
- Ulf Wagner, chef
- Rickard Sjöberg, journalist & TV-personality
- Katerina Janouch, sexologist
- Alexander Chikwanda, Finance Minister of Zambia
External links
Media related to Grennaskolan at Wikimedia Commons
Coordinates: 58°01′21″N 14°28′08″E / 58.0226°N 14.4689°E