Municipal placement
Your municipality is responsible for offering a school place. Contact the municipality's school placement office if you have recently moved or lack a Swedish personal identity number.
Guided school choice
Answer a few questions and we'll give you a personalised shortlist of schools that match what matters to you. Takes under three minutes. No account required.
How the Swedish school system works
Children living in Sweden have a right to education regardless of citizenship. Asylum-seeking children and children without papers also have the right to school, although compulsory-attendance rules can differ.
Municipal and independent schools
Municipal schools are run by the municipality. Independent schools are approved by the state and publicly funded; compulsory school must not charge tuition.
School voucher funding
The public school voucher (skolpeng) follows the pupil to the chosen school, so funding is normally handled between the municipality and the school.
Interpreting results
SALSA adjusts school results for pupil composition. The School Survey reflects pupils' experience of safety and study climate.
Guide for families new to a municipality Find your municipality SALSA explained
Step 1 of 4 · Where do you live?
Guided school choice in four steps: address, school type, priorities, results.
Where do you live?
We use the address to calculate distance to schools. To do that, the address is sent from your browser to OpenStreetMap's Nominatim service to look up coordinates. Skolkoll does not store the address, and the distance calculations happen in your browser.
Which school type?
Pick the school type you are looking for so we can filter out the rest.
What matters?
Choose 3–5 things that matter most to you. They control how the list is sorted — not which school you should choose.
3 priorities selected.
Fine-tune the weights (optional)
Results
Your personal shortlist
Calculating your match …
Understand the difference between the Skolkoll score and your priorities
The Skolkoll score is our combined assessment using a fixed recipe that is the same for every school in the country. It does not change with your choices and makes schools comparable nationally — it weighs results, certified teachers, SALSA-adjusted value-added, safety and resources, but not the distance to your address.
Your priorities re-rank the list by what you value most and weigh in the distance to your specific address. They compare the schools on your list with each other, not with the whole country.
That is why a school can land differently in the two views. It does not mean either list is “right” — it means your weighting differs from the national standard weighting. The arrow (↑ / ↓) on each card shows how far the school moved compared with the Skolkoll-score order.
Both views hide schools with too few pupils to compare fairly. Use the Skolkoll score as a neutral starting point and your priorities to find schools that fit your everyday life — and always check the figures against the school's own and the municipality's before you rank your choice.
Map
Circles show approximate travel-time zones using straight-line distance. Real travel-time zones will come in a later version.
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- High match (≥70%)
- Medium match (40–69%)
- Low match (<40%)