Strömbackaskolan Piteå

Strömbackaskolan is a municipal upper secondary school in Piteå municipality with 1450 pupils and 200 staff. Strömbackaskolan offers 14 national programs, the individual program and a specially designed program specializing in dance. About half of the students choose to apply to vocational programs, and half of them head for university studies.

The school has a close cooperation with local companies and we focus on entrepreneurship and young enterprise. The school also focus on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and we are trying to be in the frontline when it
comes to technic and automation. The school strives to develop international cooperation such as experience exchanges for teachers and students.

Piteå Municipality has a focus of developing a “Sustainable Municipality” and to carry out this the schools has a central role as educating the new generations of citizens. Therefore it is crucial for all schools to focus on Education for sustainable development and one of the ways of doing this is to participate in different international projects.  Strömbacka school has also got the award of "School for sustainable
development" (Skola för hållbar utveckling)" , an award that the Swedish National Agency for Education is responsible for.