Independent vs municipal compulsory schools in Malmö
Malmö: 23 independent and 80 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 Malmö
The comparison covers 23 compulsory schools with an independent operator and 80 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 | 23 | 80 |
| Merit score year 9 | 248.4 points | 222.8 points |
| Certified teachers | 60.2% | 72.2% |
| Pupils per teacher | 13 | 12.4 |
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
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
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
Read more: what the merit score shows and does not show ·why values are missing ·school unit, operator and group ·Skolkoll's method
Compulsory schools with an independent operator (23)
Listed alphabetically — this page does not rank schools.
| School | Merit score yr 9 | Certified teachers | Compulsory-school pupils | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Al-Salamahskolan | 203.6 | 32% | 360 | KULTURELLA FÖRENINGEN F VÄLGÖRANDE ÄNDAMÅL |
| Backaskolan | 251.9 | 64% | 240 | FÖRENINGEN BACKASKOLAN |
| Bladins grundskola | 282.2 | 76% | 750 | BLADINS SKOLA, STIFTELSEN |
| Bladins International School of Malmö | – | – | 340 | BLADINS SKOLA, STIFTELSEN |
| Boukefs Privatskola | 193.6 | 39% | 120 | Boukefs Privatskola AB |
| Boukefs Småskola | – | 60% | 50 | Boukefs Privatskola AB |
| Europaportens grundskola | 282.1 | 73% | 230 | Europaportens Skolor AB |
| Hindby Dibber | – | 68% | 70 | Dibber Malmö AB |
| Hyllie Park Grundskola | – | 60% | 140 | Hyllie Park Aktiebolag |
| JENSEN grundskola Malmö 2 | 230.2 | 59% | 360 | JENSEN EDUCATION COLLEGE AB |
| JENSEN grundskola Malmö F-6 | – | 64% | 60 | JENSEN EDUCATION COLLEGE AB |
| Kastanjeskolan | 275.6 | 65% | 210 | FÖRENINGEN KASTANJESKOLAN |
| Malmö Friskola | – | 29% | 130 | MALMÖ FRISKOLA AB |
| Malmö Montessoriskola | 275.2 | 79% | 300 | HEMGÅRDAR I MALMÖ, FÖRENINGEN |
| Mariaskolan | 252.6 | 65% | 210 | KRISTNA SKOLFÖRENINGEN I MALMÖ |
| Montessori Mondial Malmö | 265.8 | 86% | 230 | MontessoriGrundskolan Maria AB |
| Resursskolan UngArt | 89.1 | 25% | 30 | UNGART AB |
| Runstyckets skola | 256.3 | 86% | 210 | RUNSTYCKETS FÖRSKOLA AKTIEBOLAG |
| Sveaskolan LIMHAMN | 277 | 71% | 310 | Sveaskolan AB |
| Videdals privatskolor | 300.5 | 52% | 160 | AKTIEBOLAGET VIDEDALS PRIVATSKOLOR |
| Ängsdals skolor AB | 271.7 | 87% | 470 | Ängsdals skolor AB |
| Ögårdsskolan | – | 48% | 190 | ISLAMIC CENTERS FÖRSAMLING |
| Östra Skolan Dibber | 266.5 | 38% | – | Östra Skolan AB |
Compulsory schools with a municipal operator (80)
Listed alphabetically — this page does not rank schools.
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Source: Skolverket. The school year is stated per metric in the table, because the metrics are collected at different times.