Education services

The education services of the City of Jyväskylä are responsible for basic education and upper secondary school education (the latter will be transferred to the Jyväskylä education municipality federation on 1 August 2010).

Basic education (comprehensive school) is free of charge all-round education. Every child residing permanently in Finland is obliged to attend comprehensive school. Comprehensive school takes nine years and is intended for children/teenagers from 7 to 16 years of age. This also applies to immigrant children/teenagers residing permanently in Finland. Compulsory education ends once the student has completed the years (from first to ninth years) of comprehensive school, or ten years has passed since the student first went to school.

In comprehensive school, the teaching groups are established by class year. From the 1st to the 6th year, there usually is a class teacher providing education in most of the subjects. From the 7th to the 9th year, education is provided by subject teachers specialising in their respective subjects.

Teaching is based on a national curriculum for all schools in Finland.

Students are supplied with books, school meals and health care free of charge. Commuting to school is also paid for, with the following conditions: the distance to school for students in first to third year must exceed 3.5 kilometres, and the distance for pupils in fourth to ninth year must exceed 5 km.

Cooperation between the school and parents is part of the teaching process. This cooperation is based on teachers and parents engaging in mutual contact. Examples of this include parents’ meetings, personal meetings with the teacher, and evaluation discussions for primary schools.

The Education Services of the City of Jyväskylä

More information on pre-school and high school education, studying foreign languages in basic education, remedial education, the Finnish internet school KAUKO as well as the schools' opening times and holidays from here: The education services of the City of Jyväskylä

Contact Information:
City of Jyväskylä
Education services
Kilpisenkatu 1
P.O. Box 341, FI-40101 Jyväskylä
Tel. +358 14 266 0000
Fax +358 14 266 4002
E-mail: firstname.surname@jkl.fi

Finnish language training in Central Finland

Here is a list of Finnish language courses that are being arranged in the Jyväskylä region and in other parts of Central Finland in the autumn of 2011. The courses are arranged by a variety of educational institutions and the employment office.

Please find more details here (in Finnish).

More information

Päivi Iikkanen, project manager, Jyväskylä Institute of Adult Education, Tel. +358 40 341 6303, email: paivi.iikkanen@jao.fi