Schools and nurseries

Joensuu has 24 primary schools, four of which are comprehensive schools, and three secondary schools. In addition to the City of Joensuu’s own schools, teaching is provided at the University of Eastern Finland’s internship schools in two units (Rantakylä and Tulliportti), the Finnish-Russian school of Eastern Finland and the Steiner School. The city reimburses these schools for each student.

There are five upper secondary schools in Joensuu. In addition to city's own three upper secondary schools and an adult upper secondary school, upper secondary school education is provided by Tulliportin normaalikoulu, which also organises teaching for the Finnish-Russian upper secondary school of Eastern Finland.

There are 33 municipal and 19 private day care centres in Joensuu. The city contributes to the costs of private early childhood education through early childhood education service vouchers programme.

The municipality of residence reimbursements paid to pupils in private schools and the service vouchers for early childhood education in private early childhood education constitute a significant expense, which means that they must be considered as part of the service network.

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Proposal for adapting the school and day care network
 

Other service networks

In addition to schools and day care centres, the service network of the City of Joensuu includes a large number of different cultural and leisure facilities, such as two swimming pools, three museums, around one hundred playgrounds, indoor and outdoor sports facilities and gyms.

Other elements of the service network include libraries, a conservatory, customer service points and employment services. In addition, the City of Joensuu also owns fire stations, sauna facilities, office and warehouse buildings and a barn. 
 

Service network and economic adaptation

Following the wellbeing services counties reform, a significant part of the city’s spending is being directed at primary and secondary education and early childhood education services. As central government transfers to local government decrease, it is necessary to consider the number of schools and day care centres and their role in the economic adaptation. An additional motive for conducting the review is the significant decrease in the number of babies being born and predictions of the number of future pupils.  

Source: Statistics Finland, demographic statistics service

Source: Statistics Finland, demographic statistics service

Constructing new buildings, maintenance, heating, electricity, water and ICT services are a major source of expenses. When considering the service network, the costs of the properties maintained are a significant factor. In addition to this, many other factors, such as school admission areas, school transport, planning and other services as well as development and values are also being considered in the review of the service network.

Source: Statistics Finland, demographic statistics service

Source: Statistics Finland, demographic statistics service