Kantonsschule Ausserschwyz, Education institution in Schwyz, Switzerland
Kantonsschule Ausserschwyz is a public secondary school with two sites: Pfäffikon, the main location near Alpamare and Seedamm-Center, and Nuolen, directly on Lake Zurich. The Nuolen campus occupies a former hotel and mineral spa built in 1829 or 1831. Both sites have a cafeteria, media library, gymnasium and large singing hall; Pfäffikon shares three gyms with the vocational centre.
The Kantonsschule Ausserschwyz was formed by merging the Kantonsschule Pfäffikon, founded in 1975, with the Christkönig-Kollegium Nuolen, a school run by the Missionaries of the Holy Family since 1934 in a former hotel and mineral spa built in 1829 or 1831. The canton took over the Nuolen college in 1996–1997, and the last retired priests left Nuolen in 2024.
The school shapes student life through subjects like visual arts, music, and languages that learners can explore in depth. Theater productions and artistic projects offer experiences that go beyond standard classroom work.
Students can choose different subject areas based on their interests and focus on their strengths. Both sites are easily accessible and enable a wide range of courses and activities to suit different learning paths.
The school offers dedicated talent development in arts and sports for selected students to pursue intensively. Additionally, it provides bilingual maturity certificates taught in English for students wanting to deepen their language skills.
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