Pupil admissions for upper level of comprehensive school

Helsinki Normal Lyceum provides basic education for grades 1–9 as well as general upper secondary education. Comprehensive school grades 7–9 share facilities and teachers with the general upper secondary school at the Normal Lyceum. Studying in basic education takes place according to the national core curriculum drawn up in 2014.
Pupil admissions for academic year 2025–2026

Admission for grade 7

Basic education pupils are admitted based on their school admission area from southern Helsinki, except for the Latin class for which pupils are admitted based on a separate aptitude test. School admission areas are displayed in Helsinki's map services: Palvelukartta (in Finnish).

School info for 6th graders and their guardians will be held online on Wednesday November 20th 2024 at 18.00.

Language programme

A1 English, French, Swedish
A2 English, French, Swedish
B1 Swedish
B2 Latin from grade 7
B2 French, German, Russian from grade 8 (group will be formed if there are enough participants)

The school admission area for grades 7–9 comprises the school admission areas of the Snellman and Tehtaankatu primary schools. If a pupil lives and is registered at an address in the aforementioned area all through secondary school, their local school is the Helsinki Normal Lyceum.

Pupils for the Latin class are admitted based on an aptitude test. The test is an examination in the pupil’s native language. 

Pupils enroll via Wilma to both aptitude test and regular classes.

The test takes  place in the assembly hall of the Helsinki Normal Lyceum (Ratakatu 6 B, 00120 Helsinki, auditorium A107) on Thursday, January 30th 2025 from 12.00 to 15.00. No separate invitation for the test was sent. Only the score from the aptitude test will play a role in the admission to the Latin class. Pupils who take part in the exam commit to accept their study place if they are selected to the class.

All admission decisions will be mailed to pupils' homes by the end of March.

Admission for other basic education grades

We will accept pupils only from our school admission area for grades 8 and 9. School admission areas are displayed in Helsinki's map services: Palvelukartta (in Finnish).

For more information, please contact Juha-Pekka Husso, principal of basic education.