Lerums gymnasium
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Lerums gymnasium is an upper secondary school in Lerum
, Sweden
, 20 kilometres outside of Gothenburg
.
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 vocational, aesthetic 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
, the very first of its kind in Sweden
, with a history going back 120 years.
Lerum
Lerum is a locality and the seat of Lerum Municipality in Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 15,819 inhabitants in 2005.-Overview:Lerum has a station on the Gothenburg commuter rail system and is a suburb of Gothenburg....
, Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
, 20 kilometres outside of Gothenburg
Gothenburg
Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 519,399, with 549,839 in the urban area and total of 937,015 inhabitants in the metropolitan area...
.
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 vocational, aesthetic 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
Nääs Castle is a 17th century mansion near Göteborg, Sweden. It's situated at the lake Sävelången in Västergötland.In the later half of the 19th century Nääs became world renowned through its Crafts College and for more than 50 years it was regarded as 'Swedens window to the world'.The mansion Nääs...
, the very first of its kind in Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
, with a history going back 120 years.
External links
- lerum.se/gymnasium – Lerums gymnasium, official website