Espoo is preparing for the increase in student numbers by building a new building for 1,200 high school students.
Western Espoo's new high school places have created a solution. The Board of Growth and Learning decided on Wednesday that Espoo's co-ed high school will move to the new building being built in Kiviruukki.
Espoonlahti high school could also have moved into the premises of the new high school in Kivirukki, but the board decided the matter in favor of the high school students of the joint high school. The co-educational high school operates in temporary premises in the Kilo district.
In some of the scenarios, the current high schools would have been connected to Kiviruukki. However, the need for places to start upper secondary education in the second half of the 2020s has proven to be so great that merging upper secondary schools would very likely create a shortage of places to start.
There are now 10 Finnish-language high schools in Espoo.
Stone quarry the different emphasis areas of high school teaching will be decided later.
Chairman of the board Marika Räf (kok) says that one of the presented options is an emphasis on the Baltic Sea. In the past, there has also been talk about circus-based teaching, but this idea has not progressed.
“In any case, the Kiviruuk area is becoming a center of the circular economy, so international cooperation for the benefit of the Baltic Sea could be well suited there.”
Espoo has zoned a college, research and office block near the Kivenlahti metro station, but to the north of Länsiväylä. A project called Cleantech Garden is underway in the area, where a bio and circular economy competence center is being developed.
There is already a VTT operation in Kiviruukki, and the education group Omnia has a land reservation there.
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