The war interrupted the development of the folk school. Of the schools in Kuusamo, only six school buildings were saved from the destruction of the war.
After the war, the construction of schools on an exceptionally large scale, compared to the whole country, started in Kuusamo under difficult conditions. About 50 schools were built in ten years. For example, in 1948, 18 school buildings were under construction in Kuusamo at the same time. At its peak, the municipality had 67 folk school districts and at its peak there were more than 4 500 students in the folk school.
This large-scale school construction and the decree issued after the war, with which the state administration began to support student transport and accommodation arrangements, contributed to the realization of real compulsory schooling in Kuusamo.
A municipal middle school belonging to the folk school was established in Kuusamo in 1949, one of the first rural municipalities in the country. In 1956, the government gave Kuusamo permission to establish its own high school, which was expanded in 1959 into an eight-grade co-educational school run by a support association. The equality of educational opportunities was also increased by the vocational training that started in the 1960s and the Kuusamo vocational course centre that started its operations in 1975.
