For pupils starting Grade 7

Applicants who live in other municipalities and applicants in private schools who do not have access to the Wilma form should apply with a separate electronic application form.  The electronic form is also used by applicants in Swedish-language schools who want to apply for Finnish-language schools, and applicants in Finnish-language schools who want to apply for Swedish-language schools.

• The application form for Swedish-language schools for the academic year 2024–2025(Link leads to external service)
•  The application period for Finnish-language schools for the academic year 2024–2025 ended on 3 December 2023.

 Use this form only if you don’t have access to the Wilma form Transition to Grade 7 2023 through your own Wilma. The form does not require a Wilma username and password, but a valid email address is required. Write your email address in the field and click “Lähetä varmistusviesti”. Then, go to your email and click on the link in the email that you received from the system to proceed to the form. Once you are there, the form has instructions both in Finnish and in English.

If you face any difficulties when filling out the form, please check the following details: 

• Log out of Wilma, if you have previously logged in using a username and password. 
• If necessary, please clear the cache memory on your device.
• Change Wilma's language to Finnish (the form has instructions in Finnish and English).

If any issues remain, please try again later. For more infromation and questions, please contact oppilaaksiotto@hel.fi(Link opens default mail program). 

Pupils living in Helsinki have a priority when admitting pupils to teaching provided by the City of Helsinki. Applicants moving to Helsinki will be considered a Helsinki residents when their residential address in the national Population Information System is in Helsinki at the time of making the admission decision and at the start of the school year.

After the pupils living in Helsinki have been accepted into the groups of weighted-curriculum, bilingual or English-language education and if there are still places available, pupils from other municipalities who have passed the aptitude or language test will be admitted based on the order of their scores from the test.

School journeys for pupils from other municipalities must be arranged and paid by the pupil’s guardian. The same principles apply to secondary school admission, i.e. if the pupil applies for general education at a school other than their local school, the grounds for school admission remain the same and priority is given to applicants living in Helsinki.

By participating in the aptitude or language test, the pupil commits to accepting the offered school place if they are accepted in the weighted-curriculum education in question.

Your local school and its website will have more information available on all practical matters.