Young people from Espoo specifically want to go to high school. But which one is the best? HS investigated.
Espoo is a city of high school students in an exceptional way in Finland – at least if you look at the statistics.
As many as 75 percent of young people from Espoo primarily apply to upper secondary school, while the national corresponding figure is 56 percent.
Ninth graders are choosing right now where they will soon apply. The second degree joint application is open from February 20 to March 19.
So would you aim for the nearest high school or further away? For a special or general line?
What is your average enough for? Where do the guys go?
Even in Espoo there are not high school places for everyone who wants them.
Last year, starting places in Finnish-language upper secondary schools were reserved in Espoo for 66.3 percent of the age group graduating from basic school.
It means that there were 1.11 primary applicants in relation to the starting places.
The most popular was the Otaniemi mathematics and science high school line (3.06 primary applicants per one starting place). Many also wanted to go to the sports section of Haukilahti High School (2.23 applicants per starting place) and Matinkylä High School, which started last fall (1.75 applicants/starting place).
In general, the largest number of applicants, more than 620 young people, tried to go to Otaniemi.
HS assembled together statistics to facilitate the decision on choosing a high school. With this search engine, you can research both how difficult it has been to get to high school and how successful you have been in your studies.
Both the results of matriculation essays and information about how a large number of students have been placed in postgraduate studies shortly after graduation are included.
Espoo There has been a tough competition for the “top high school” in recent years.
Otaniemi, Kuninkaantie, Tapiola and Etelä-Tapiola have been the top secondary schools in all of Finland in terms of average student results and the number of boards written, and their mutual ranking has varied.
The location of the highest admission average has varied between Otaniemi and Kuninkaantie.
When you calculate the average of the entrance averages of the last five years, the situation turns in Otaniemi's favor by a hair's breadth. Otaniemi's figure is 9.078 and Kuninkaantien's is 9.028.
Last year, the highest subject average (9.25) was required for Otaniemi high school, which also had the most starting places. The lowest required grade point average was at Viherlaakso high school (7.45).
Kuninkaantie high school performed best in the matriculation essays, but the next two were close behind.
in Espoo on average, students enter upper secondary school with higher grades than in Finland in general. In order to enter upper secondary school in Espoo, the average of subjects must be above 7.00.
In Espoo, the average calculated from the averages of basic school subjects for high school starters was 8.78 last year. The corresponding figure for the entire country was 8.61.
The difference has remained around two tenths in recent years.
Also in Helsinki, the average scores of subjects entering upper secondary school have remained slightly lower than in Espoo in recent years.
When comparing the grades of the primary school leaving certificate, it must be taken into account that there may be school-specific variation in them.
However, compared to Helsinki, Espoo's highest averages do not sound so wild. Namely, the hardest average limits in Helsinki were last year 9.7 on the slopes.
It is easier to compare the results of matriculation essays, because the final grades are given by the Matriculation Examination Board instead of the schools.
Five percent of the test takers get the best grade (L, number 7). The most common grades (M, C and B) are given by 20 percent of the examinees each.
No so it should come as no surprise that Finland's average high school graduation result is a rounded C, i.e. 4.3.
Based on the average of the grades of the high school diplomas, many high schools in the capital region come out on top in Finland.
For example, last year the highest grades on average were written in Ressu high school in Helsinki (5.9, i.e. slightly below E), Puolalanmäki high school in Turku (5.5, halfway between E and M), Helsinki University Viikki Normal School (also 5.5) and three in high schools in Espoo: Kuninkaantie (5.5), Etelä-Tapiola (5.4) and Otaniemi high schools (5.3).
These three, and in addition Tapiola high school from Espoo, have been at the top of the student essays in many previous years as well.
Matriculation degrees grades are of course only one way to measure success in high school. It shouldn't be too surprising that students who have already done well in elementary school also write good matriculation results.
For this reason, Finnish high schools are also compared by the news agency STT, which measures how the students' grades have changed during high school, instead of the best school leaving certificate grades.
In STT's comparison, Kuninkaantie high school from Espoo and Etelä-Tapiola high school, which have also been at the top of the comparison for several years, have been among the top 20 large high schools in Finland in recent years.
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