Independent vs municipal compulsory schools in Linköping

Linköping: 12 independent and 69 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 Linköping

The comparison covers 12 compulsory schools with an independent operator and 69 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	12	69
Merit score year 9	220.9 pointsmedian 240 · range 89–267.27 of 8 schools · school year 2025/261 value withheld for confidentiality	222.6 pointsmedian 229.7 · range 100.5–252.112 of 17 schools · school year 2025/265 values withheld for confidentiality · the values come from 3 different school years
Certified teachers	78.1%median 79.7 · range 64.5–91.910 of 12 schools · school year 2025/262 schools without a published value · the values come from 2 different school years	79.3%median 81 · range 47.5–97.961 of 69 schools · school year 2025/266 values withheld for confidentiality · 2 schools without a published value · the values come from 3 different school years
Pupils per teacher	12.1median 12.1 · range 4.6–16.912 of 12 schools · school year 2025/26the values come from 2 different school years	10.8median 12 · range 1.7–19.861 of 69 schools · school year 2025/266 values withheld for confidentiality · 2 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 (12)

Listed alphabetically — this page does not rank schools.

School	Merit score yr 9	Certified teachers	Compulsory-school pupils	Operator
Björkö friskola	235.3	–	240	STIFTELSEN WALDORFPEDAGOGIK I VRETA KLOSTER
Dar Al Uloum skola	–	77%	60	STIFTELSEN DAR AL ULOUM I LINKÖPING
Eraskolan	–	65%	80	Småskolan Pedagogik i Sverige AB
Internationella Engelska Skolan Linköping	259.2	–	560	Internationella Engelska Skolan i Sverige AB
JENSEN grundskola Linköping	267.2	82%	120	JENSEN EDUCATION COLLEGE AB
Lillgårdsskolan	–	92%	170	STIFTELSEN LILLGÅRDSSKOLAN I LINKÖPING
Montessori Mondial Linköping	–	84%	–	AcadeMedia Grundskolor AB
Nya Munken	240	86%	570	NYA MUNKEN AKTIEBOLAG
Pandionskolan	89	70%	30	Frösunda IoF AB
Småskolan	–	83%	40	Småskolan Pedagogik i Sverige AB
Tellusskolan Thea Linköping	241.3	77%	330	Tellusskolan II AB
Vittra Lambohov	214.2	65%	170	Vittraskolorna AB

Compulsory schools with a municipal operator (69)

Listed alphabetically — this page does not rank schools.

School	Merit score yr 9	Certified teachers	Compulsory-school pupils
Arena resursskola	–	48%	10
Arenaskolan	252.1	94%	540
Askeby skola	–	68%	160
Bankekinds skola	–	92%	50
Berzelius resursskola 4	–	–	10
Berzelius resursskola 5	–	–	10
Berzelius resursskola 6	–	–	10
Berzeliusskolan 4	245.2	92%	250
Berzeliusskolan 5	237.5	90%	250
Berzeliusskolan 6	239.5	93%	250
Björnkärrsskolan	–	68%	140
Blästad resursskola	–	–	10
Blästadsskolan	–	78%	310
Brokinds skola	–	92%	110
Brunnbyskolan	–	88%	220
Bäckskolan	–	91%	120
Daggkåpan resursskola	–	62%	10
Ekholmen resursskola	–	–	10
Ekholmsskolan	227.4	81%	370
Ekkälleskolan	–	84%	280
Ekängens skolor	–	92%	400
Elsa Brändströms skola	221.8	81%	440
Folkungaskolan 4	–	95%	170
Folkungaskolan 5	244.7	84%	630
Fridtunaskolan	–	88%	490
Hagbyskolan	–	90%	340
Harvestadsskolorna	–	96%	460
Himnaskolan	–	81%	450
Hjulsbroskolan	–	89%	270
Järdala resursskola	–	87%	10
Kungsbergsskolan	–	79%	200
Kvinnebyskolan	–	90%	320
Kärna skola	–	89%	520
Kärnpunkten resursskola	–	80%	10
Linghemsskolan 1	–	–	–
Linghemsskolan 2	–	–	–
Ljungsbro resursskola	100.5	57%	20
Ljungsbro skola 7-9	232	82%	300
Ljungsbro skola F-6	–	77%	190
Norrbergaskolan	–	74%	80
Nya Rydsskolan	–	74%	190
Nygårdsskolan	–	72%	260
Nykils skola	–	80%	190
Rosendalsskolan	–	68%	230
Skeda skola	–	98%	120
Slaka skola	–	88%	110
Slestad resursskola	–	–	10
Slestadsskolan	–	93%	270
Slussen resursskola	–	49%	10
Stångåskolan	–	57%	10
Sätra skola	–	69%	70
Tallboda resursskola	–	72%	20
Tallbodaskolorna	–	87%	320
Tanneforsskolan	–	71%	140
Tinnerbäcken resursskola	–	55%	10
Tokarpsskolan	222.4	89%	380
Tornhagsskolan 7-9	224.5	70%	300
Tornhagsskolan F-6	–	79%	490
Ulleviskolan	–	86%	140
Ulrika skola	–	48%	30
Vallastadens skola	–	77%	290
Vidingsjö resursskola	–	70%	10
Vidingsjöskolan	–	86%	320
Vikingstads skolor	–	80%	450
Vist skola	–	92%	310
Vreta Kloster skola	–	83%	300
Ånestadsskolan 7-9	223.3	77%	270
Ånestadsskolan F-6	–	73%	290
Änggårdsskolan	–	69%	130

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