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Almaskolan in Västerås

Compulsory school Year 1–9 STIFTELSEN ALMASKOLAN · Västerås, Västmanlands County

Headmaster: Johan Östlund

36 /100
Skolkoll Score 36 out of 100. The scale goes from 0 (lowest) to 100 (highest). 50 is the average. This value is below average.

Better than 8% of Sweden's compulsory schools

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Almaskolan is a medium-sized independent compulsory school with 140 pupils.

Almaskolan is a medium-sized independent compulsory school with 140 pupils.

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Key figures over time

Summary of the central metrics for the most recent 5 academic years. Visit each source for the full time series.

Academic year Pupils Qualified teachers Avg. grade Cost/pupil (municipality)
2026 140 — — —
2025 — — 193.7 136,647 SEK
2024 — — 189.8 134,767 SEK
2023 — — 219.3 126,118 SEK
2022 — — 220.0 119,290 SEK

Source: Skolverket + Kolada (cost is municipal average, not school-specific).

School history

Events from Skolverket's unit register, Skolinspektionen inspections, group history, and locally-computed statistical signals. Source events and computed signals are shown separately so authority data is not mixed with deviation indicators.

Most significant registered changes

2 priority events out of 6 total: Signal — Merit rating changed unusually much; Signal — Merit rating changed unusually much.

Quick overview 0 Source history 0 In-depth analysis 4 Computed signals 2
All 6 Statistics 4 Signal 2
high 4 medium 2 low 0
12 months3 years10 yearsAll

Quick overview

Few, high-confidence events for guardians and pupils. Low-confidence events, statistics publications, and technical source traces appear in the views below.

No high-confidence events to show in the quick overview right now.

Source history

Name, operator, status and headmaster changes; inspection decisions; statistics publications; and traceable group history. These rows are source-tagged with origin and confidence.

No source-tagged name, operator, status, headmaster, inspection, statistics or group events for Almaskolan in the sources Skolkoll holds locally.

In-depth analysis

Indications, low-confidence rows, statistics publications, and technical source history — for school leaders, journalists, and analysts.

  1. Statistics Pupil count: statistics vintage available

    Pupil count is available for 2026. This is data availability, not a school event.

    Statistics publication Source: Skolverket statistics history Confidence: high Date precision: year Method: skv4-statistics-availability-v1 Observed: 2026

  2. Statistics Pupils per teacher: statistics vintage available

    Pupils per teacher is available for 2026. This is data availability, not a school event.

    Statistics publication Source: Skolverket statistics history Confidence: high Date precision: year Method: skv4-statistics-availability-v1 Observed: 2026

  3. Statistics Merit rating: statistics vintage available

    Merit rating is available for 2025. This is data availability, not a school event.

    Statistics publication Source: Skolverket statistics history Confidence: high Date precision: year Method: skv4-statistics-availability-v1 Observed: 2025

  4. Statistics Upper-secondary eligibility: statistics vintage available

    Upper-secondary eligibility is available for 2025. This is data availability, not a school event.

    Statistics publication Source: Skolverket statistics history Confidence: high Date precision: year Method: skv4-statistics-availability-v1 Observed: 2025

Computed signals

Larger year-over-year movements in historical key figures. These rows are Skolkoll's computations from existing history and should NOT be read as authority decisions or quality judgements.

  1. Signal Merit rating changed unusually much

    Merit rating decreased by 29.5 points from 219.3 to 189.8 between 2023 and 2024. This is a calculated signal, not a register decision.

    Computed signal Source: Skolkoll calculation from Skolverket history Confidence: medium Date precision: year Method: skv4-metric-signal-thresholds-v1 Severity: signal

  2. Signal Merit rating changed unusually much

    Merit rating increased by 32.4 points from 187.6 to 220.0 between 2021 and 2022. This is a calculated signal, not a register decision.

    Computed signal Source: Skolkoll calculation from Skolverket history Confidence: medium Date precision: year Method: skv4-metric-signal-thresholds-v1 Severity: positive

Register sources: Skolverket (fetched 26 May 2026), Skolinspektionen (fetched 3 May 2026), and group lookup from Bolagsverket/Skolkoll. Computed signals are tagged with source "Skolkoll calculation" and have year-level date precision.

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Quality data (Skolverket Statistical Database)

Costs, personnel data and school survey results from Skolverket's quality system.

Personnel

Permanently employed
95.4% Limited history There is still too little history to interpret the trend safely. This affects Permanently employed teachers This staffing metric is affected by FTE definitions, local reporting practices, and temporary vacancies. Read more about the method →
Senior teachers (förstelärare)
6.3%
Teacher turnover The proportion of staff replaced during a year. High staff turnover may indicate instability or recruitment difficulties. Read more in glossary →
9.2%
Pupils per counsellor
1,040
Teachers (FTE)
11.3
Share of female teachers
61.2%

School survey (agree, %)

Safety, year 5
91%
Safety, year 8
82% Limited history There is still too little history to interpret the trend safely. This affects Safety year 8 The school survey relies on voluntary responses and results can vary substantially between years for small samples. Read more about the method →
Study peace, year 5
67%
Study peace, year 8
50% Limited history There is still too little history to interpret the trend safely. This affects Study environment year 8 The school survey relies on voluntary responses and results can vary substantially between years for small samples. Read more about the method →
Anti-bullying, year 5
82%
Anti-bullying, year 8
59%
Stimulation, year 5
80%
Stimulation, year 8
60%

Source: Skolverket Statistical Database (Statistikdatabasen). Updated annually.

Demography

Pupil forecast — Västerås

Number of children in the age group ages 6–15 in the municipality, according to SCB's forecast.

Forecast covers all children in this age group across the entire municipality — not just this school's catchment. Local enrolment depends on school choice and migration patterns.

ages 6–15 (2025) 19,263
ages 6–15 (2030) 18,553
ages 6–15 (2035) 17,186
Change 2025→2030 -3.7%

Source: SCB (population forecast for Västerås municipality, by school-form age group).

Västerås municipality — history (school form: compulsory school)

Municipality-aggregated key figures from Kolada over the most recent 5 years. Shown as municipality average — not school-specific values — because Kolada reports financial and pedagogical metrics at school-form level per municipality.

Measure 20252024202320222021
Pupils 16,93416,76016,62416,61616,543
Merit value yr 9 224.9224.3226.2227.2231.4
Eligibility for upper secondary 66.3%63.5%63.1%62.7%64.4%
Pupils per teacher 11.811.711.711.912.2
Cost per pupil 136,647 SEK134,767 SEK126,118 SEK119,290 SEK111,813 SEK

Source: Kolada (Swedish council for municipal analyses).

Data sources

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