page_title: Oulun Suomalaisen Yhteiskoulun Lukio
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Oulun Suomalaisen Yhteiskoulun Lukio / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Kuusiluoto after bombardment in 1944. Finnish Co-education Lycée of Oulu in the background. Suomi: Oulun Kuusiluoto pommituksen jälkeen vuonna 1944. Taustalla Oulun suomalainen yhteiskoulu.
context_page_description: Oulun Suomalaisen Yhteiskoulun Lukio is a Finnish-language upper secondary school in Oulu, Finland. The school is located in the Kuusiluoto neighbourhood in the Vanhatulli district in the central Oulu.
  There are about 40 teachers and about 620 students in OSYK. The school is arts and culture oriented, and it is part of the UNESCO Associated Schools Network.
context_section_description: Oulun Suomalainen Yhteiskoulu was established and opened in 1902 as a private Finnish-language lycée.  It was the first co-educational upper secondary school in Oulu. At the time Finland was a Grand Duchy of the Russian Empire. The first principal of the school, Mauno Rosendal was an independence activist, who was sent to exile in 1903. He returned from exile in 1905. The first years the school operated in rented premises, the own school building was built in 1907–1908. The school was changed to a state-owned public school in 1920. During the World War II school work was disrupted at times. The military needed premises and the Soviet Union bombed the Kuusiluoto neighbourhood. In 1944 a bomb fell into the girls' gymnasium, but did not explode. In the 1974 national education reform Oulun Suomalainen Yhteiskoulu was turned over to the city government, and at the time it was renamed and divided into the Kuusiluoto secondary school (Kuusiluodon yläaste) and the Kuusiluoto upper secondary school (Kuusiluodon lukio). In 2004 Kuusiluodon lukio was made a central upper secondary school and the lower classes were merged into other schools. The original name of the school was restored in 2006.
caption: The school has survived the bombings in 1944.
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