Herlufsholm Skole

Herlufsholm offers a one-year Pre-IB course followed by the two-year IB Diploma Programme, taught entirely in English. Pre-IB is designed as a bridge into the Diploma: students get used to studying in English, strengthen their study skills and follow a syllabus built around the IB core subject groups, with Danish taught at two levels and an intensive Danish course available at the start of the year. In the Diploma, students choose one subject from each of the six groups — Language and Literature (Danish A, English A, Self-taught A), Language Acquisition (Danish B), Individuals and Societies (Economics, History, Psychology, Global Politics, Business Management, Environmental Systems and Societies), Sciences (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Environmental Systems and Societies, Computer Science), Mathematics (Analysis and Approaches, Applications and Interpretation) and The Arts (Visual Arts, Film) — and complete the three core elements, including CAS, which runs for at least 18 months. The school is also a member of Round Square, one of only two Scandinavian schools in a network of more than 250 schools worldwide, which opens exchanges, international conferences such as Model United Nations, and service projects abroad.

The school's stated values are academic rigour, engagement and responsibility ("Faglighed. Engagement. Ansvarlighed."). Its vision is to be the best school in the Nordic region at educating young people to lead and take responsibility — for themselves, for one another and for the community they belong to — and its mission is to create extraordinary conditions for extraordinary academic and personal development.

Boarders live in the school's student houses, each led by a boarding teacher whose first task is to build the house community so that new arrivals get to know the other students. The school presents boarding as "your other home": a community that takes the student in, makes daily life easier and produces friendships that last. In November 2025 the school counted 207 boarders out of 431 students, including 59 boarders on the Pre-IB and IB programmes.

Beyond lessons, the school offers more than 30 after-school activities covering sport, music, art and academic interests. Students can take on The Award gold-medal programme, join charity work through Round Square projects around the world, attend international conferences including Model United Nations, and take part in the school's talent-development programme, which it runs as a certified talent school with a range of external partners.