Kara school

Kara School is located in the immediate vicinity of the center of Riihimäki, at Kalevankatu 13–17. Our school has approximately 455 students in grades 6–9.

Like other schools in Riihimäki, we use the electronic Wilma system, where you can find school bulletins and other matters related to school days. Our school's gymnasiums are used in the evening by various hobby groups.

Charlotta Lydecken founded the school in 1857 in Sortavala. The school was intended as a Swedish-speaking girls' school, which also accepted boys as students. In 1904, the school became Sortavala Suomalainen Tyttokoulu, and in connection with it, advanced classes leading to university were founded in 1908. After the second evacuation trip in 1944, the school became Riihimäki Tyttolyseo. The girls' high school first operated in the premises of the Riihimäki high school (now Riihimäki high school) until it was able to move to its own school building in 1956. The school was changed to the Kara joint high school in 1971. With the reform of the elementary school in 1976, the high school classes were combined with the Riihimäki high school. Kara middle school continued to operate, since 1994 it was called Kara school. The renovated school building was commissioned in 2010.