Grennaskolan Boarding School was a

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located in

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. Grennaskolan Boarding School was founded in 1963 by

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and has today approximately 200 students, half of whom are boarding school students and half of whom are international students. The

was one of the three elite boarding schools in Sweden, the others being

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and

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. Grennaskolan Boarding School AB was a wholly owned subsidiary of Rådhuset AB, which is fully owned by

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Education

The school offered the

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from grades 7-9. The high school offered both Swedish and English programs. Students of the Swedish program focused either on humanities or science and mathematics, while the English-speaking programme was the

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Boarding

Overall, half of the students were boarding students.

Boardings houses for boys

* Postiljonen Norra * Vulkanen

Boardings houses for girls

* Grevégården * Postiljonen Södra

History

The school was found in 1963 and the first students graduated from the school in 1965 after 2.5 years of study. *1968 - Grennaskolan opens its first foreign schools in

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, and a year later in

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and

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. *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

s in Sweden. *1974 - Grennaskolan closes its foreign schools due to abolished student grants for foreign students. *1978 -

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

. The school celebrated their 50th anniversary in 2013. Grennaskolan was permanently closed in 2019.

Alumni

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and former Governor of Sveriges Riksbank * Ulf Wagner,

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& TV-personality *

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External links

Grennaskolan website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Grennaskolan Riksinternat Boarding schools in Sweden International Baccalaureate schools in Sweden Jönköping Municipality 1963 establishments in Sweden Educational institutions established in 1963