Grennaskolan

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Established 1963 Headmaster Jessika Humphreys Phone +46 390 332 08 Founded 1963 Highest grade Ninth grade		Type Municipally owned Website www.grennaskolan.se Founder Stockholm University Lowest grade Seventh grade

Address Bergsgatan 38, 563 32 Gränna, Sweden Similar Torpaskol, Nova Software AB, Per Brahegy, Bäckadal, Erik Dahlberg Profiles Facebook

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Grennaskolan Boarding School is a Swedish boarding school located in Gränna, Jönköping County. Grennaskolan Boarding School was founded in 1963 by Stockholm University and has today approximately 200 students, half of whom are boarding school students and half of whom are international students.

The boarding school is one of the three elite boarding schools in Sweden, the others being Sigtunaskolan Humanistiska Läroverket and Lundsbergs Boarding School. Grennaskolan Boarding School AB is a wholly owned subsidiary of Rådhuset AB, which is fully owned by Jönköping Municipality.

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Education

The school offers the MYP program from grades 7-9. The high school offers both Swedish and English programs. Students of the Swedish program focus either on humanities or science and mathematics. The English-speaking programme is the IB program International Baccalaureate.

Boarding

The school has approximately 200 students. Overall, half of the students are boarding students. There are currently two homes for boys and two homes for girls, where students aged 13–19 live.

Boardings houses for boys

Postiljonen Norra

Vulkanen

Boardings houses for girls

Grevégården

Postiljonen Södra

History

1963 - Founded

1965 - The first student from the school is graduated after 2.5 years of study

1968 - Grennaskolan opens its first foreign schools in Brighton, and a year later in Aix-en-Provence and Landshut

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 boarding schools in Sweden

1974 - Grennaskolan closes its foreign schools due to abolished student grants for foreign students

1978 - Jönköping Municipality 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 Jönköping Municipality

2013 - Celebrating their 50th anniversary.