Local school and secondary school

On this page, you can find instructions for enrolling in the local school.

Local School

Every pupil in basic education has the right to attend to a local school assigned by the municipality he/she lives in. Local school is assigned within the pupil catchment area.  Catchment areas are: Espoonlahti, Eastern Leppävaara, Western Leppävaara, Central and Northern Espoo, Matinkylä-Olari and Tapiola. It is not possible to assign the nearest located school in every case.  

Familiarize yourself with the instructions and the principles of pupil admission (below) before you fill in the application form. 

Enrolling in a local school

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Secondary school

Every pupil in basic education has the right to attend to a local school assigned by the municipality. In addition, one has the right to apply for other than the assigned school but no subjective right to be admitted. In Espoo, these other than local schools are called secondary schools, and the pupil applying to a secondary school is called a secondary applicant.

Secondary applicants can be admitted only if there are free study places in the school's teaching groups after all pupils have first been assigned a local school. If Your child is admitted to a secondary school, she/he is not entitled to school transport subsidy. Her/his younger sister or brother does not have a sibling basis to be admitted in the same school.

Familiarize yourself with the instructions and the principles of pupil admission (below) before you fill in the application form. 

Applying to a secondary school

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