# Campus Risbergska

Campus Risbergska, formerly Risbergska Gymnasium and also Risbergska School, is the centre for municipal adult education in Örebro, Sweden. It was inaugurated in 2017.
The school was founded as an elementary school for girls in 1863 and has since changed its name, focus, and buildings over the years. It became a municipal upper secondary school in various forms between 1931 and 2016. The school is now located in the Rosta district by the Svartån river in western Örebro.
After the upper secondary school closed in 2016, the buildings were renovated and reopened on 9 November 2017 as Komvux under the current name Campus Risbergska. In June 2018, the operations were expanded to a combined learning centre for Komvux, SFI, and certain combined university services.

## History

In the city's high school tradition, Risbergska Gymnasium took third place after Karolinska Gymnasium [sv] ("Karro") and Rudbecksgymnasiet [sv] ("Teknis"). The name Risbergska dates back to the 19th century, but high school education began in 1924, and the high school was an educational institution for girls only until 1962. The high school was given the name Risbergska Gymnasium in 1966, when it was located at Oskarsparken [sv] in the inner city. In 1971, the high school was moved to the campus' current premises.
One of Risbergska's celebrations was "Krampen", a school competition held in early June, where Risbergska competed against "Karro". There were student associations at both schools that arranged the competition, and made school shirts, came up with quirky songs, etc.
The students at Risbergska were called "pigs" in local jargon. This was a nickname created by the students at Karolinska Läroverket that the students at Risbergska made their own.
| Year | Girls/primary school | Gymnasium |
| 1863–1904 | Örebro Elementary School for Girls, privately run, Videstrandska gården | |
| 1904–1924 | Oscar Park | |
| 1924–1931 | Oscar Park | Teaching without the right to graduate, privately managed |
| 1931–1930s | Oscar Park | Higher general education institution for girls, state-run |
| 1930s–1960 | Municipal girls' school | Higher general education institution for girls, state-run |
| 1960–1962 | Municipal girls' school | Nikolai higher general textbooks, also for boys |
| 1962–1966 | 9-year primary school | Nikolai higher general textbooks, also for boys |
| 1966–1971 | | Risberg School |
| 1971–2016 | | New premises in Rosta |
| 2017–2025 | | Campus Risbergska Komvux, SFI, learning centre |
| Note: school names shown in Bold text; Risbergska school shown with yellow background. |||
Risbergska Gymnasium was founded in 1863 as a private girls' school. It was expanded in 1924 to include secondary education, which in 1931 became public under the name högre allmänna läroverket för flickor ("girls' school"). The name was changed in 1960 to Nikolai högre allmänna läroverket and in 1966 to Risbergska skolan . The girls' school was municipalized in the 1930s and was then called "municipal girls' school".
Risbergska Gymnasium is named after Emilie Risberg (1815–1890) who founded Örebro Elementary School for Girls in 1863. It had 50 students and 12 teachers. She was the gymnasium's first principal until 1878. From 1868, the school was housed in Videstrandska Gården on the corner of Olaigatan and Faktorigatan, but moved in 1904 to a property at Oskarsparken, designed by city architect Magnus Dahlander [sv]. The private girls' school got a neighbor at Oskarsparken in the fall of 1925, when the municipal elementary school Engelbrektsskolan was inaugurated, designed by architect Axel Brunskog [sv].
In the 1920s, the question arose whether girls should also be given the opportunity to attend upper secondary education in Örebro. Karolinska Gymnasium had 800 students, all boys, and there was no point in increasing the number or giving girls admission. Frustrated that the city council did nothing about the matter, the board of the private Risbergska School took the initiative to start teaching girls after the sixth grade from the autumn semester of 1924, which corresponded to the first year of the upper secondary school's Latin line (without Greek). The school lacked the right to graduate, i.e., the right to award a matriculation examination, so the girls had to take the final exam at Karolinska Gymnasium.
Risbergska Gymnasium was overcrowded. In 1925, the school applied to the city council to expand the premises for the provisional gymnasium, or to start a separate girls' school. A municipal investigation was appointed, which was completed in May 1928. The city council applied to the government to establish a girls' school in Örebro. The Riksdag decided so in the spring of 1930 and the government on 23 January 1931. Teaching at the state- and municipally-funded "higher general school for girls" began in the autumn of 1931. Nils Bergsten became the principal. The girls' school consisted of a 4-year realskola and a 4-year Latin gymnasium. However, the premises were the same as before, shared with Risbergska gymnasium.
During the 1930s, the private Risbergska skolan was also municipalized and continued under the name "Kommunala flickskolan". There were 48 municipal girls' schools in Sweden in 1955, in accordance with a statute of 24 September 1928. The principal from 1954 was Anna Lindeberg (born 1916).
In 1936, the city's board of trustees determined that the school was still as overcrowded as in 1927. City architect Georg Arn [sv] was commissioned to design a new school building, which was inaugurated on 27 October 1938. In various stages from 1955 to 1960, pavilions with more classrooms were added, and additional premises were rented from the Technical High School (now Rudbecksgymnasiet). In the autumn of 1956, a new school canteen was opened at Oskarsparken 2, shared by the girls' school and Engelbrektsskolan.
In the autumn of 1939, a 3-year secondary school was added, and in 1954, a general secondary school was established. In the autumn of 1960, boys were also admitted and the school was named Nikolai Higher General Secondary School. It then had 900 students, of whom 400 were in the secondary school.
In 1966, the high school was once again named Risbergska skolan. It moved to the newly built premises on the outskirts of Örebro in 1971, built in yellow brick with copper details, on land belonging to Rosta gård, the premises that now houses Campus Risbergska. The premises also housed the National High School for the deaf and hearing impaired as well as education for students with autism. However, the ventilation system was undersized, which led to bad air and mold. It was replaced with a more modern system in the fall of 2007. In 2015, Örebro Municipality presented a proposal that the school should be closed. This was because the high school from the fall of 2015 had approximately 350 students on premises that can accommodate approximately 1,400 students. After the spring semester of 2016, the school was closed after much protests and chaos, and from the fall semester of 2016, the school's operations were taken over by other schools. The school's closure was commemorated on May 17, 2019, with a 45-meter-long cake at the school's premises. Each meter of the cake symbolized one of the school's 45 years in Rosta.
In the fall of 2017, Campus Risbergska was inaugurated on the premises, with an expanded learning centre from the summer of 2018.

### 2025 shooting

On 4 February 2025, a school shooting occurred at Campus Risbergska. Eleven people were killed, including the perpetrator, and twelve others were injured.

## Training

The Matriculation examination was given in the years 1935–1968 and the Realexamen in the years 1935–1965. In the years 2009–2010, the gymnasium had 1,400 students in the programs for natural sciences, social sciences, behavioural sciences, nursing, children and leisure, and aesthetics, and was a national gymnasium for the deaf and hearing impaired.

## Principals
### Principals of girls' schools/primary schools

* 1927–1954 – Martha Grönvall

### High school principals

* 1931–1945 – Nils Bergsten (rektor)
* 1946–1959 – Gerda Rydell
* 1959–1962 – Carl Olof Bergström
* 1962– Sven Mogård (born 1920)
* Nils Bergsten, (1939)
* Martha Grönvall (1939)

## Alumni

* Abgar Barsom, Allswedish football player in Syrianska FC
* Henry Chu, TV host
* Kata Dalström, politician
* Jasmine Kara, singer, writer
* Kristofer Lundström, TV and radio presenter, journalist
* Pernilla Månsson Colt, TV presenter
* Gladys del Pilar, singer
* Nikola Sarcevic, musician
* Martin Stenmarck, singer