Montessori schools and preschools in Sweden
Skolkoll finds 391 units in 102 municipalities, including 294 preschools and 97 compulsory schools.
About this approach
Montessori education builds on Maria Montessori's principles of independent work in a prepared environment with purpose-made materials. The schools follow the same curriculum as other schools.
How Skolkoll finds the units
A unit counts when the unit's name at Skolverket (the school unit register or, for preschools, the preschool statistics) or the operator's business description at the Swedish Companies Registration Office (Bolagsverket) mentions Montessori. The description covers the whole operator and is missing for municipalities and some independent operators, so their units are found by name only. Units that work with Montessori education without saying so are missing.
Where they are
What the data can and cannot tell
Families who actively choose a particular approach often differ from other families, for example in level of education. Differences in results between the groups therefore do not show what the approach itself achieves. Compare individual schools rather than approaches – the comparisons below show how large the differences are and why they should be read with care.