Sigtunaskolan Humanistiska Läroverket (SSHL) is a coeducational independent school for boarding and day students between the seventh and twelfth grades. It is located in Sigtuna, Sweden, and is considered as one of the most prestigious secondary institutions in Europe. International students around the world and local families in Sigtuna or nearby suburbs with children performing at an exceptional level have also been enrolled to SSHL.

As a non-profit private boarding school, management of the SSHL’s financial and physical resources is jointly overseen by the Sigtuna Skolstiftelse (Sigtuna School Foundation), the Sigtunastiftelsen (National Sigtuna Foundation) and the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation; all the trustees are drawn from Sigtuna citizens and school alumni. Day-to-day operations are headed by a school director and a principal, who is appointed by the trustees.

Classes at SSHL are held Monday through Friday. Boarding students are often offered lectures and educational interventions on specific Sundays, known at the school as “Academic Sunday”. Emphasizing the school’s primary principle of offering a Swedish educational experience with international characteristics, the school offers programs in Swedish and English.

International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme

SSHL offers students from 7th to 10th grade to attend the IB Middle Years Programme (MYP) and final year students to undertake the two-year Diploma program. The school offer a variety of subjects to cater to the diverse body of students taking the program at SSHL and offer support CAS (Creativity, activity, service), a central emphasis of the IB program by organizing service trips to Laos, Nepal and Kenya. Students at SSHL studying the IB achieve a point average of 31.