Is the Fit score a school quality ranking?
No. Finland does not officially rank schools, and kouluhaku.fi does not either. The Fit score tells you how well an address suits a family with children, based on the local school's catchment area, the reach of nearby lukios, the density of nearby services, and the area context. It is not a quality rating of teaching.
How current is the catchment data?
Catchment areas are normalised from municipal feeds. Current coverage includes Helsinki's exact per-school and pre-primary polygons, plus the Espoo, Vantaa, Turku/Kaarina and Tampere pupil-area feeds. Confirm with the school before relying on a result for a move.
Why are the Swedish-language schools missing?
Swedish-language catchment areas are published as separate map layers and have not yet been merged into this view. Swedish-language lukios are included in the national lukio comparison.
What works outside the Helsinki capital area?
Lukio cutoffs and school locations are national. Catchment areas appear in municipalities whose open data is compatible: currently Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa, Turku/Kaarina and Tampere. Nearby services are still capital-area only, because they come from Service Map.
Why show lukio cutoffs if quality isn't measured?
A cutoff tells you how contested admission is rather than how good the teaching is. For a family it answers one question: is the student's GPA enough to get through the door. We show it as a number rather than a star rating.
What about comprehensive-school rankings?
Finland deliberately does not publish per-school quality data for comprehensive school (grades 1–9). What is available, and what kouluhaku.fi shows, is factual: the catchment area, the special programmes on offer (weighted teaching, English-medium teaching, language paths) and the cutoffs for those programmes. It is a school profile rather than a verdict on teaching.