Independent vs municipal compulsory schools in Solna

Solna: 11 independent and 10 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 Solna

The comparison covers 11 compulsory schools with an independent operator and 10 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

MetricIndependent operatorMunicipal operator
Number of compulsory schools1110
Merit score year 9226.4 pointsmedian 250.3 · range 133–281.88 of 9 schools · school year 2025/261 value withheld for confidentiality233.6 pointsmedian 235 · range 219.6–246.13 of 3 schools · school year 2025/26
Certified teachers61.7%median 61.6 · range 44.9–80.79 of 11 schools · school year 2025/262 schools without a published value · the values come from 2 different school years80.9%median 80 · range 65.5–93.410 of 10 schools · school year 2025/26
Pupils per teacher11.6median 13.3 · range 3.9–18.911 of 11 schools · school year 2025/26the values come from 2 different school years13.3median 13.3 · range 11.4–15.610 of 10 schools · school year 2025/26
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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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 (11)

Listed alphabetically — this page does not rank schools.

SchoolMerit score yr 9Certified teachersCompulsory-school pupilsOperator
Hagaskolan243.6–150DJURGÅRDENS WALDORFSKOLEFÖRENING
Ingridskolan, grundskola175.247%80INGRIDSKOLAN AB
Internationella Engelska Skolan Solna260.3–700Internationella Engelska Skolan i Sverige AB
Magelungens Grundskola Solna13346%40Magelungen Utveckling AB
Noblaskolan Solna281.881%430AcadeMedia Grundskolor AB
Raoul Wallenbergskolan Bagartorp278.762%560Raoul Wallenbergskolorna AB
Raoul Wallenbergskolan Järvastaden–77%650Raoul Wallenbergskolorna AB
Solna Enskilda Skola–64%30BARNENS MONTESSORIAKADEMI ÖSTERMALM AB
Svedenskolan Bergshamra–56%80Utvecklingspedagogik Sverige Aktiebolag
Vittra Frösunda25778%360Vittraskolorna AB
Ängkärrskolan i Solna181.445%100STIFTELSEN NYA ÄNGKÄRRSSKOLAN

Compulsory schools with a municipal operator (10)

Listed alphabetically — this page does not rank schools.

SchoolMerit score yr 9Certified teachersCompulsory-school pupils
Bergshamraskolan–93%310
Ekensbergsskolan–93%330
Granbackaskolan–83%220
Järvastadens skola–70%80
Parkskolan–93%130
Råsunda Centralskola219.674%360
Råsunda skola–81%500
Skytteholmsskolan–79%230
Tallbackaskolan23566%410
Ulriksdalsskolan246.177%590

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