Katedralskolan, Skara

Katedralskolan (Meaning "Cathedral School") in Skara is one of Sweden's oldest Upper Secondary Schools. It was founded in 1641 at the initiative of the Diocese of Skara, and its bishop Jonas Magni Wexionensis, and was approved by Queen Christina on August 31 of the same year. For hundreds of years before that it had been a priest training school which was founded in the 13th century and the students were called Skaradjäknar ("Skara Deacons).

In June 1864 first student group took the final exam in Skara. Earlier the exam had been taken at a university. In 1878 came the name Higher general secondary school, which remained until 1965. The school opened for girls in 1927.

The school had long been located in a building east of Skara Cathedral Choir by the then-high wall surrounding the cathedral churchyard. The building was demolished in the late 19th century, when the neo-Gothic building with a typical lecture hall was built south of the cathedral. In 1972, the current main building, which is more on the edge of Skara, was finished, and the school moved. The former high school building is now an elementary school for grades 7-9 called Djäkneskolan ("Diacon School) whose students likewise are called Djäknar ("Deacons")

The school has had, during its time, many students who have later become famous, poet Johan Henrik Kellgren, chemist Torbern Bergman and the Swedish veterinary medicine's father Peter Hernqvist to name a few. The school's motto is "Där tradition och framtid möts" ("Where tradition and the future meet").

The school offers most of the programs available at this level in Sweden:

Cathedral School also offers the international education International Baccalaureate (IB) and the specially designed program, Music and Production (MoP). This musical education has its offices in a building prepared for the recording of Fame Factory. MoP has already generated pupils who have made a name in the music industry, for example, there are members of Zeke's students in the program. The teachers at MoP include, for example, Lars Diedricson and Kristian Wejshag, who among other things, have made a contribution for Melodifestivalen 2010.

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