Enrollment 2,490 Phone +46 8 622 21 00 Founded 1994 | Language Swedish, English Number of students 2,490 Teaching staff 24 | |
Type Upper Secondary School, Free School Principal Kristy Lundström
Christina Nyström
Lisa Dahlberg
Pernilla Hemmingsson
Ingela Spets Key people assistant principals
Kara Barker
Isabella Stern
John Di Maria
Maria Hävner
Anna Jaeger
Mattias Bertilsson
Kajsa Parmell
Charlotte Sandborgh
David Elfsberg Newspaper The Rydberg Tribune, VRG Djursholm Tidning Address Kungstensgatan 6, 114 25 Stockholm, Sweden Motto Konst och vetenskap går hand i hand Profiles | ||
Viktor Rydberg Gymnasium (VRG) is a group of three gymnasium (upper secondary schools) in Stockholm, Sweden named after the famous Swedish author Viktor Rydberg. The three upper secondary schools are VRG Djursholm, VRG Odenplan and VRG Jarlaplan, run by the Viktor Rydberg Schools Foundation. The foundation also runs two secondary schools, Viktor Rydbergs samskola Djursholm and Viktor Rydbergs skola Vasastan.
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All three upper secondary schools are bilingual and about one third of the tuition is given in English by native speakers. This also means that course materials are both in Swedish and English. The schools have students attending from all over the greater Stockholm region, making admission highly competitive. Admission to the natural sciences program with natural sciences orientation at VRG Odenplan is especially competitive; in 2009, 2010 and 2012 all admitted students had perfect grades.
Viktor rydberg gymnasium jarlaplan
History
The first Viktor Rydberg gymnasium was established in 1994, soon after the 1992 “Free School Reform”. The reform enabled private actors to run publicly funded schools, in a way similar to charter schools. Such a free school was started by the two parents Louise Westerberg and Louise Andersson in the halls of Djursholm Samskola’s eastern wing. After three years the number of applicants had risen so drastically that a new school was started at Odenplan in central Stockholm. In its first year, a large number of students and 580 teachers applied to the school. In 2003, a new school was started at Jarlaplan in order to provide an option for students who wanted to pursue artistic activities more fully.
VRG Odenplan
The school was in 2016 located to a part of Norrtulls sjukhus.