Tikkurilan lukio

Tikkurilan lukio also known as TILU is one of the largest high schools in Finland with about 1200 students from year 10 to 12. The school is located in Tikkurila, Vantaa and is a five minute walking distance from Hiekkaharju's station.

TILU provides its students a warm lunch everyday.

There are different class groups that focus on specific subjects. From 2009 onwards there will be a mathematics, and physical education group in addition to the music group. The school also provides a variety of media and different languages courses including Latin and Japanese. TILU's friend-school is in Singapore and the schools arrange visits to one another's schools annually. The group of about 20 students from Singapore last visited TILU in winter 2009 and the Finnish students are next visiting Singapore in the autumn 2009.

Also there is the IB, International Baccalaureate,with about ninety students in the school. In TILU the subject choices are:

• group 1 - English A1/Finnish A1
• group 2 - English B/Finnish B
• group 3 - History/Philosophy/Psychology
• group 4 - Biology/Chemistry/Physics
• group 5 - Mathematics HL/SL/studies SL
• group 6 - Visual arts/additional subject from groups 1-4

Tilu's principal is Risto Väyrynen and the vice principal is Ari Ranki, who is also a biology teacher.

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