lukio

Etymology
, most likely as, However, (from , compare , ) is possibly also related, and the possibility of the word being a phono-semantic matching cannot be ruled out.

Noun

 * 1) a usually three-year (upper) secondary school in the Finnish school system (usually for students aged 15/16–18) that prepares the students for academic studies at a university; corresponds to the gymnasium, senior high school  and high school in some other places

Usage notes

 * In the current Finnish school system is preceded by nine years of . Until the 1970s there were four years of  followed by five years of .  and  were together called . Those who did not pass the exam for  continued in  and  for another four to five years.