School enrolment
All children of compulsory school age in Lappeenranta have the right to attend basic education organised by the city. Your child’s school place is determined by your family’s address. If your child has a decision on child-cpecific support made during pre-primary education, it will be taken into account when making the decision on the school place. In this case, your child will be assigned a place in a school where the required measures of support in learning and school attendance can be arranged.
In the guide Newcomer’s guide (Opas koulutulokkaan kotiin) and 6th graders guide (Opas 6.-luokkalaisen kotiin) you will find information on enrolment, weighted classes, transport to and from school as well as other school-related matters.
Use the service
Requirements
Customer Service Centre Winkki and the city’s map service provide you with additional information on schools and how the school place is determined.
Instructions
New pupils
The municipality assigns a school to a prospective student. The student's school place is determined based on the indicative student areas decided by the board and the student's home address entered in the Population Information System.
At the beginning of January, the education service will send a notice to the guardian via Wilma about the start of basic education. If you don`t have a Wilma account the notice will be sent by post. At the same time, the Applications and Decisions tab will show the primary admission decision made for the child. However, the decision may still be missing or may change. It is not necessary to register your child for the first grade. However, the information on the electronic form must be checked and, if necessary, supplemented or corrected.
If you cannot fill in the form electronically, you can get help from Customer Service Centre Winkki. You can also use the form to apply for a school place at another school for your child or, for example, in weighted education.
You can apply for a school place at the private Steiner school for your child by contacting the school. Lappeenranta has also a Finnish-Russian School of Eastern Finland, which is maintained by the city’s partly owned foundation. The Finnish-Russian School’s application forms can be found on the school’s website. If you are applying for a place for your child on other school, please notify us using Wilma's electronic form.
We will make the remaining admission decisions by the end of March. The schools will send out invitations to their open days.
If you want your child to start school earlier, you can find more information on this on the page Starting basic education one year earlier than enacted.
Pupils moving to Lappeenranta
Your child’s school place is determined by your new address. Fill in the enrolment form for pupils moving to Lappeenranta in Wilma. You do not need Wilma credentials to fill in the form. The link to Wilma is under Online services (Verkkoasiointi). After we have received your enrolment form, we will check what your new local school in Lappeenranta is and forward the pupil’s information to the new school. The school will contact the guardians to agree on practical matters.
If the pupil has received child-cpecific support measures or attended weighted education in their old school, please indicate this in the additional information field on the enrolment form. If necessary, we will contact you.
Payment information
The service is free of charge.