[2][3] A number of prominent researchers and Swedish socialites have attended the school, including Manne Siegbahn (Nobel Prize laureate in Physics), Gunnar Myrdal (Nobel Prize laureate in Economic Sciences), Horace Engdahl (permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy from 1999 to June 2009), and Leif G. W. Persson (criminologist and novelist).

[4] The school opened on August 29, 1876, the principal being 29-year-old Sixten von Friesen, who would later on be known for his great success in politics.

Originally the sculpture was made in bronze by the olympic prize-winner Stig Blomberg, but the replica consists of plaster.

It depicts a boy and a girl, each riding a horse in the nude, and this has become a central place for the traffic of the school.

Events organized by the Student union include freshers week, assassins guild, association days and prom.