Pre-primary education and schooling, services

Basic education pupils are entitled to special-needs education/other support due to e.g. learning or adaptation difficulties, disability or illness.

Each child has been reserved a place in their own local school corresponding to the home address.

Flexible basic education provides the opportunity to learn in a functional way by using the young person's own strengths.

Pre-primary education pupils have the right to pupil welfare, i.e. the care of the child’s overall well-being as an individual and as part of a group.

In Vaasa, basic education is mostly given in basic schools maintained by the city.

Some schools in Helsinki give bilingual instruction (kaksikielinen opetus). In that case, the instruction takes place in Finnish and another language.

In flexible comprehensive education (JOPO), students learn both at school and at workplaces. On-the-job learning is an important part of the...

There is an aim to give the pupil mother tongue or home language (oma äidinkieli tai kotikieli) instruction. Instruction is organised based on...

All children and young people of compulsory school age in Lappeenranta have the right to attend basic education organised by the city.

Pupils in basic education have the right to receive special education or other means of support when it’s required.