Independent vs municipal compulsory schools in Kristianstad

Kristianstad: 6 independent and 50 municipal compulsory schools. Merit score, teacher certification and pupils per teacher — with school year, the number of schools behind each figure, and what is missing.

These figures describe differences; they do not explain them. Schools differ in pupil composition, size and catchment area, and those differences do not follow the type of operator. Two schools with the same operator can differ more than the groups do.

The data behind this comparison in Kristianstad

The comparison covers 6 compulsory schools with an independent operator and 50 with a municipal operator. Each metric is reported against its own data: how many of the schools have a published value, which school year that value refers to, and what is missing.

Key figures side by side

Metric	Independent operator	Municipal operator
Number of compulsory schools	6	50
Merit score year 9	219.6 pointsmedian 223.9 · range 185–245.44 of 4 schools · school year 2025/26	223.3 pointsmedian 223.1 · range 192.3–268.915 of 16 schools · school year 2025/261 school without a published value · the values come from 2 different school years
Certified teachers	68.7%median 71 · range 44–85.86 of 6 schools · school year 2025/26the values come from 2 different school years	80.5%median 80.6 · range 59.4–95.641 of 50 schools · school year 2025/269 schools without a published value · the values come from 3 different school years
Pupils per teacher	12median 11.7 · range 10.2–14.66 of 6 schools · school year 2025/26	12.2median 12.2 · range 7.1–18.941 of 50 schools · school year 2025/269 schools without a published value · the values come from 3 different school years

How we calculate — and what these figures cannot tell you

Each value is an unweighted mean of the school-level values: a school with 40 pupils counts as much as one with 500. That is why we also show the median and the range, so a difference between two means is not read as an even gap between the groups.

We publish no group average based on fewer than 3 schools with a published value, or covering less than 60% of the schools in the group. An average of one or two schools describes those schools rather than a type of operator. Nor do we compare two groups whose values refer to different school years.

The comparison covers compulsory school (grundskola). Preschool class, leisure-time centres and adapted compulsory school are not included in the figures even where the school unit also runs them, and units running both compulsory and upper-secondary education are excluded because their teacher and pupil figures cannot be separated by school form. Schools whose operator type is neither municipal nor independent, or is not recorded, belong to neither group.

Skolverket withholds values for groups with fewer than ten pupils. Such gaps are not random — they hit small schools hardest — and are therefore reported separately from values that are simply absent.

Merit score year 9

Definition: Average merit score for year 9 students. Calculated as the sum of the 16 best grades (max 320 points, 340 with modern languages), where each grade gives 0–20 points.
Unit: poäng (0–340)
Source: Skolverket
Level: School level

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Certified teachers

Definition: The share of teachers (in full-time equivalents) who hold a Swedish teaching licence (lärarlegitimation) and are qualified to teach, where qualification covers the school type, subject and, in compulsory school, the grade band of the teaching they do.
Unit: % (0–100)
Source: Skolverket
Level: School level

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Pupils per teacher

Definition: Number of students per full-time equivalent teacher. Lower values indicate more teaching resources per student.
Unit: ratio
Source: Skolverket
Level: School level

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Compulsory schools with an independent operator (6)

Listed alphabetically — this page does not rank schools.

School	Merit score yr 9	Certified teachers	Compulsory-school pupils	Operator
Antonskolan Blekedamm	214.3	75%	240	Anton Utbildning AB
Antonskolan Österäng	185	76%	230	Anton Utbildning AB
Axonaskolan	245.4	67%	160	AXONA DENDRON AB
Montessori Mondial Kristianstad	233.5	65%	380	AcadeMedia Grundskolor AB
Rickarums skola	–	44%	40	RICKARUMS SKOLFÖRENING
Trolle Ljungby skola	–	86%	70	Trollebygdens Byaskolor Ekonomisk förening

Compulsory schools with a municipal operator (50)

Listed alphabetically — this page does not rank schools.

School	Merit score yr 9	Certified teachers	Compulsory-school pupils
Allöskolan H	–	–	–
Centralskolan LM	–	84%	170
Degebergaskolan H	232	80%	250
Degebergaskolan LM	–	95%	70
Everöds skola LM	–	82%	90
Fjälkestads skola M	–	88%	60
Fjälkinge skola H	216.1	64%	260
Fjälkinge skola LM	–	–	–
Fröknegårdskolan H	192.3	72%	210
Fröknegårdskolan M	232.8	–	–
Färlövs skola LM	–	78%	170
Hammars skola L	–	78%	190
Helgedalskolan L	–	92%	70
Helgedalskolan M	–	78%	140
Kiaby skola LM	–	59%	60
Kulltorpskolan L	–	–	–
Kulltorpskolan M	–	–	–
Köpinge skola LM	–	79%	130
Linderöds skola L	–	61%	20
Lingenässkolan L	–	73%	220
Lingenässkolan M	–	72%	130
Milnerskolan MH	247.7	85%	340
Nosabyskolan H	223.1	81%	220
Nosabyskolan MH	–	76%	170
Parkskolan L	–	–	–
Parkskolan M	–	–	–
Rinkaby skola LM	–	93%	70
Rönnowskolan H1	203.4	74%	140
Rönnowskolan H2	223.8	82%	260
Slättängsskolan H1	206.3	74%	240
Slättängsskolan H2	268.9	69%	90
Slättängsskolan LM	–	81%	140
Spängerskolan LMH	213.1	–	–
Sånnaskolan L	–	90%	190
Sånnaskolan M	–	90%	210
Tollarps skola H	199.5	74%	140
Tollarps skola L	–	88%	120
Tollarps skola M	–	81%	170
Viby skola LM	–	80%	110
Villaskolan L	–	92%	150
Villaskolan M	–	96%	100
Vittskövle skola L	–	80%	30
Väskolan L	–	73%	170
Väskolan MH	213.1	–	–
Yngsjö skola LM	–	84%	60
Öllsjöskolan L	–	85%	140
Öllsjöskolan MH	238.7	73%	330
Önnestads skola H	238.8	86%	150
Önnestads skola LM	–	92%	190
Österslövs skola L	–	89%	80

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Source: Skolverket. The school year is stated per metric in the table, because the metrics are collected at different times.