Stockholm International School (SIS) has signed a lease agreement to become the new tenants of Norra Latin on Drottninggatan. It means that, 40 years after the last students left the building, it will become a school once again. SIS will occupy the premises and be operational for 2023.
Approximately 500 students from sixth to twelfth grade will be located at Norra Latin when the school opens again. But in contrast to when the premises were last a school, there will be significantly more languages heard in the schoolyard this time. SIS has students from 60 different countries and follows an international curriculum.
– “Our students have parents who work within international companies, academies, or at embassies. We provide the means for students to continue their schooling irrespective of which country they arrived from, due to the fact that we follow an international curriculum with all teaching in English. This provides security and continuity for children at school during their formative years. It is, of course, a bonus to be able to welcome the students to such an historic and beautiful building as Norra Latin,” says Director, María Isabel León.
In the rapidly-growing Stockholm region, the school is in many ways an essential piece of the jigsaw that attracts international talent moving to Sweden with their families.
Thanks to the school leasing Norra Latin and thereby more than doubling its current school space, more students will also be able to start at the school.
– “It is fundamentally about the Stockholm region’s power to grow. For our students’ parents to be able to move to Sweden and take up the commitments they have here, the children need to be able to continue their schooling via an international curriculum. It feels gratifying that Norra Latin will provide us with larger premises that will allow us to meet the needs that exist, and will continue to grow,” says María Isabel León.
