For pupils starting Grade 7

Enrol your child in seventh grade using the Wilma form during the application period. If your child is studying in a local school assigned to them, they may continue their studies there or apply for a place in weighted-curriculum education.

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Options after Grade 6

  • If your child studies in a local school with grades 1–9, the child will complete grades 7 to 9 in the same school.
  • If your child studies in a local school with just grades 1–6, we will assing the child a local school to complete grades 7–9.
  • You can also apply for a place in weighted-curriculum, bilingual or English-language education. Applicants must take an aptitude test or a language test. 
  • You can also apply for a place in a  school other than the local school assigned according to the pupil's home address. The pupil can get a place if there are places left in the school. 
  • If your child is already studying in weighted-curriculum, bilingual or English-language education, the child may continue these studies in grades 7–9 without taking a new aptitude test or a language test.

Enrol and apply for Grade 7 on Wilma

Enrol your child in seventh grade using the Wilma form during the application period. Use the same application form to enrol in your local lower secondary school, to apply for weighted-curriculum, bilingual or English-language education starting in grade 7,  and to apply to a school other than the child’s local school. A pupil can chooce up to five different options. Find the form on Wilma under section 'Siirtyminen 7 luokalle' ('Transitioning to grade 7'). Your school can give you more detailed instructions on how to fill in the Wilma form. Applications submitted late will not be processed.

Video instructions on how to use Wilma: Transition to grade 7

Applications for the weighted-curriculum in music at the Swedish-language school Kottby Comprehensive school follow the school's own guidelines. For more detailed instructions, see  Grundskolan websiteKottby, section 'Intensifierad musikundervisning från årskurs 7'.

If you do not yet live in Helsinki or if you cannot use Wilma, see the application instructions at the end of this page.

Schedules for the 2025–2026 school year

  1. 1 November – 14 December

    Schools may hold information events. The dates and times of these events can be found on the schools’ websites.

  2. 16 December 2024 – 16 January 2025

    Enrolment and application period for Grade 7. Submit an enrolment form on Wilma.

    During the application period, the guardians of all sixth-graders must fill in a form on Wilma on their child's choices regarding the seventh grade options. 

  3. 23 January – 27 February 2025

    Aptitude or language tests and resit tests for weighted-curriculum, bilingual and English-language education and B2 Latin. You can find the test schedules on the schools' websites. No separate test invitation will be sent.

    Pupils can resit the test if their guardian has sent a medical certificate to the school proving that the student was ill on the actual test day.

  4. 26 March 2025

    Pupil admission decisions are posted.

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.  

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.

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Photo: Frida Lönnroos

Weighted-curriculum education beginning in the 7th grade

To gain admission to weighted-curriculum education in Finnish-language schools, pupils must fill out a form in Wilma called Transition to Grade 7 2023. If you don't have access to this form, please see section Applying by a method other than Wilma above on this page.

Pupils can apply for five different options, i.e. schools/weighted subjects. The applied for options should be listed in the order of preference. Schools with the same weighted-curriculum education areas will use the same aptitude test, (with the exception of Helsinki Normal Lyceum, which uses its own aptitude test for Latin) and pupils will participate in the test at the school they listed as their first choice.

Starting in Grade 7, there are also English-language and bilingual study options. Read more about our options on the page Weighted-curriculum and basic education in different languages.

More detailed schedules and additional information about the aptitude tests and the equipment needed for them are available on the school’s website. No separate invitation to the test will be sent.

Weighted-curriculum education in Swedish is provided by Åshöjden Comprehensive school. The school has separate instructions for applying for their weighted-curriculum education in music. See the instructions in Swedish on the school's website under the section Intensifierad musikundervisning från årskurs 7.