Lerums gymnasium is an

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Lerum Lerum is a locality and the seat of Lerum Municipality in Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 16,855 inhabitants in 2010. Overview Lerum has a station on the Gothenburg commuter rail system and is a suburb of Gothenburg. The river of Säve ...

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...

, 20 kilometres outside of

Gothenburg Gothenburg (; abbreviated Gbg; sv, Göteborg ) is the second-largest city in Sweden, fifth-largest in the Nordic countries, and capital of the Västra Götaland County. It is situated by the Kattegat, on the west coast of Sweden, and has ...

. It's a relatively young school, founded as late as in 1980. The first school building was a converted bottle cap factory; since then the school area has grown into a small "campus" with several old and new buildings of varying style, all set in lush parkland. Today, Lerum Secondary School has about 1500 students aged 16 - 19 with approximately 200 staffmembers. There is also a section for adult students. The school offers 14 national educational programmes, both

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and academically orientated ones. In addition, the school offers young yachting talents a possibility of combining sail training with school studies within the Sailing College, an integrated part of the school, based on Lake Aspen. Also integrated in the school is the College of Arts and Crafts located at

Nääs Castle Nääs Castle is a 17th-century mansion near Gothenburg, Sweden.Nääs Manor & Crafts Sch ...

, the very first of its kind in

, with a history going back 120 years.

External links

lerum.se/gymnasium
– Lerums gymnasium, official website {{coord, 57.7739, N, 12.2747, E, source:wikidata, display=title Gymnasiums (school) in Sweden