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Our traditions

Graduation at SSHL

Graduation is a memory for life for our students and a day of festivities for family and friends. This video shows the students of 2023 run out at Midgårdstrappan and march through the town of Sigtuna. See also 2023 photo album

Life at SSHL

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Video: meet our students! Hear them share some of their experience of the school, boarding and life in Sigtuna. Swe/Eng

Right now at SSHL

News and events

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25 September 2023

Dekaden 2023 – a sunny day with many dear reunions

19 September 2023

Meet SSHL in Mallorca 5-7 October

29 August 2023

Meet the students who chose to go to school in Sweden

14 August 2023

Congratulations to the winners of Curt Nicolin Award 2023!

Sigtunaskolan Humanistiska Läroverket SSHL

Friends and knowledge for life

SSHL is a Swedish boarding school with an international outlook. We offer our students a unique blend of Swedish and international culture, high academic standard and high-class student support.

We welcome both boarding students and day students, and offer various options of boarding. Our belief is that committed teachers, a focus on the individual and a wholesome learning environment all contribute significantly to academic achievement.

The school’s location along Lake Mälaren gives the students a serene environment, close to nature. Here you will have access to an active and inspiring recreational time with the school’s sports and creative activities, as well as close access to the historical town of Sigtuna and Arlanda Airport.

SSHL is run by Sigtuna School Foundation and, as a foundation it is not run for profit.

About SSHL

Our History

What they say about us

Stories

Carolina wanted to attend SSHL to follow in the footsteps of her two older sisters, one who graduated, and one who still attends SSHL and lives in the same boarding house. While Carolina is Swedish, she had never lived in

Carolina Wåhlin

Carolina is Swedish, but she had never lived in Sweden until she enrolled at SSHL

Originally from Bulgaria, David has lived in Austria and Australia. Despite having no connection to Sweden whatsoever, David and his family moved here in October 2021 so that David and his younger sister could enroll at SSHL. – I chose

David Nikolov

I am proud to be a student attending SSHL

Our alumni Aurore Belfrage attended the Swedish Natural Science Programme and graduated in 1997. She was a boarding student at Berga. What are you doing today? I do a little bit of everything, all under the umbrella of “The Green

Aurore Belfrage

It's a family tradition to study at SSHL!

Charlotte Beskow, alumni of 1978, today works for the ESA, European Space Agency. Recently Charlotte hosted a webinar for the SSHL students, where she discussed the incredible undertaking it took to develop the James Webb space telescope. – I studied

Charlotte Beskow

SSHL gave me a firm footing and a reference I would share with hundreds of other students

Christoffer Roepstorff graduated 2003 from the Natural Science Programme at SSHL. He finds a lot of inspiration from his parents, both veterinarians, who have worked with horses. What are you doing today? I am currently working on my PhD at

Christoffer Roepstorff

Inspired by his old physics teacher

Alice attended SSHL between 2014-2020. She started in 7th grade and followed the Swedish curriculum until high school, when she started at the international MYP5 and further on IB Diploma. How come you chose SSHL? I have always been interested

Alice Andersson

After the guided tour I was completely in love

Meet our former SSHL student Jeanette Danielson, who joined SSHL at the age of 14 and graduated from the high school in 1988. Jeanette now works at Swedish Match and she took the time to talk to SSHL in their

Jeanette Danielson

My best friends are all from my time at SSHL

Meet alumnus Mikael Lindström who has had a long career at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Mikael has been the Swedish Ambassador to China and Mongolia, Japan and Indonesia, has been stationed in the U.S., France and Morocco and negotiated

Mikael Lindström

The school has meant a lot to me

For this interview, we did not have to go far to find a person with an exciting story. Carl Månsson, who lives at the boarding school and will soon take the student, will study at a university in the USA

Carl Månsson

You get into boarding life quickly and make many friends

What are you doing now? I’m studying economics, economic history and business at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. I graduated last spring and began last fall so in a few weeks, I will have finished my first year. I

Donata Leonova

My teachers were fantastic

Mr Sonnenstein, what do you do today? I am retired since a few years back, and I have now become politically active. I’m on the City Council in Uppsala, where I live, and I have some other political assignments for

Christian Sonnenstein

My parents and I were expats

Today we called Karl Svensson, who graduated in 2006 and lives in Kenya today. In his 3rd year at SSHL, Karl was involved in starting the Kenya project. What are you doing today? Today I live in Kenya, I more

Karl Svensson

It felt like coming home

Meet Karin Fröman who, after having lived in both China and England, has chose to come home to Sweden where she is the Key Account Manager at Forbo Flooring. Karin grew up in Singapore and describes what it was like