Staff stability
Improving
Source: Kolada (municipality-aggregated certified teacher trend).
BACKENS FÖRSKOLA is a small municipal preschool with 30 children.
BACKENS FÖRSKOLA is a small municipal preschool with 30 children. The share of staff with pedagogical higher education (12.5%) is below the national average of 44.3%.
- Children
- 30High reliability
- Municipality: 147
- Share with pedagogical higher education
- 12.5%High reliability
- Municipality: 26.7% · Sweden: 44.3%
- Children per staff member
- 3.8High reliability
- Municipality: 4.3 · Sweden: 5.1
The most important facts in 3 points
- Preschool in Pajala with 30 enrolled children.
- Preschools are not covered by our inspection sync; check the Inspectorate or municipality if needed.
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Skolkoll interpretation
BACKENS FÖRSKOLA is compared here with 6 other schools with the same school form in Pajala municipality; it has 30 children versus the municipal average of 25.
Share with pedagogical higher education: 12.5%, 14.2 percentage points below the municipal average and 31.8 percentage points below the national average.
Children per staff member is 3.8, 0.5 lower than the municipal average.
Apply for a place? Use Pajala e-service for preschool application (opens in a new window).
3 values is based on a small sample
This applies only to the values listed here.
The sample is small, so the value may vary more than usual.
This affects
- Certified teachers
- Pupils per teacher
- Number of pupils
- This staffing metric is affected by FTE definitions, local reporting practices, and temporary vacancies. For preschools without a compulsory or upper-secondary school, the same field instead holds the share of staff with pedagogical higher education (see the measure Share with pedagogical higher education).
- This staffing metric is affected by FTE definitions, local reporting practices, and temporary vacancies.
- Pupil counts may be privacy-suppressed for small units and are not always updated on the same cadence as other indicators.
Other values here do not have this specific note.
School programmes
- Preschool
Things to look into
Worth looking into. These indicators are an attention aid, not a quality grade or risk score.
- 12.5% of staff have pedagogical higher education — below the national average (44.3%).
School performance
Staff
12.5%Share with pedagogical higher educationMunicipality: 26.7% · Sweden: 44.3%
Staff
12.5%
Share with pedagogical higher education
School environment
Safety & Inspection
No recorded deficienciesRecently inspected
Safety & Inspection
No recorded deficiencies
Recently inspected
No registered inspection decisions with deficiencies.
- Recorded decisions with deficiencies Reliability: High reliability.
- 0
High reliability — Inspection register and Skolenkäten survey.
Source: Schools Inspectorate + Skolverket · Last updated: 5 Oct 2026
Who runs the school
Operator
PAJALA KOMMUNMunicipal operator17 other schools in the municipality.
Operator
PAJALA KOMMUN
Municipal operator
PAJALA KOMMUN is the operator. The municipality has 17 other schools.
- Operator Reliability: High reliability.
- PAJALA KOMMUN
- Operating form Reliability: High reliability.
- Municipal own operation
- Other schools in municipality Reliability: High reliability.
- 17
High reliability — Current data from Skolverket and Bolagsverket.
Source: Skolverket · Last updated: 5 Oct 2026
Next step: Apply for a place
Apply through Pajala e-service for preschool application.
Contact and address
- Postal address
- 98485 PAJALA
- School unit code
forsk-538098
Source: Skolverket School Unit Register · Pipeline-fetched on 2026-10-05.
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Nearest and similar schools
- JÄGARENS FÖRSKOLASame municipality
- KVARNENS FÖRSKOLASame municipality· 25 children
- LILLSKOGENS FÖRSKOLASame municipality· 37 children
About Pajala municipality
School-form averages across the municipality, with links to deep-dive sub-pages.
- Schools
- 18
- Avg. merit (yr 9)
- 221.4−6.2
- Certified teachers
- 54%−19 pp
- Pupils per teacher
- 8.0−3.9
Source: Skolverket (aggregated school statistics).
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In-depth metrics
Preschool statistics
Key figures for BACKENS FÖRSKOLA. Compared to municipal and national averages.
Staff educational background (2025)
Skolverket's mutually exclusive categories for staff in the preschool unit. The figures come from Skolverket's annual survey; staff hired after the survey appear first in the next survey.
| Category | This preschool | Municipality | National |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pedagogical higher educationpreschool teachers and others with a Swedish higher-education degree | 13% | 26.7% | 44.3% |
| Upper-secondary qualification for work with childrenchildcare assistant training or equivalent | 25% | 20.3% | 15.4% |
| Some pedagogical trainingfor example parts of a pedagogical education | 25% | – | – |
| Other educationother education, including foreign qualifications not validated in Sweden | 38% | – | – |
| Other educational background (combined)comparison row for the two categories that municipal and national statistics publish together | 63% | 53.1% | 40.2% |
Of which preschool-teacher degree: 13%
Preschool-teacher licence (share of full-time posts): 13% · Municipality 24.1% · National 44.7%
A preschool-teacher licence is Skolverket's proof that someone is a qualified preschool teacher; as a rule, only licensed preschool teachers may be responsible for teaching. Pedagogical higher education means a university degree with a teaching focus, with or without a licence. The measures are counted separately, so the share with a licence can be higher than the share with pedagogical higher education.
Children enrolled (2025)
| Share | This preschool | National |
|---|---|---|
| Share of girls | 37% (exact value 36.7%) | 48.6% |
| Children with a foreign background (born abroad, or both parents born abroad) Including children who were not in the population register on 30 September of that year. | Not reported (Skolverket)Skolverket does not publish this value, and Skolkoll does not estimate it.Not reported (Skolverket) — Skolverket does not publish this value, and Skolkoll does not estimate it. | 24.2% |
| Children with at least one parent with post-secondary education | 23% (exact value 23.3%) | 68.1% |
The figures describe which children are enrolled, not the preschool's quality, and affect no rankings on Skolkoll. The shares vary a lot between municipalities and neighbourhoods; the national figure is a reference, not a norm. At a small preschool a single child can move a share by several percentage points. Skolverket does not publish a value that rests on few children, so small preschools often lack it.
Municipal preschool data for Pajala (2025) (5 metrics)
National averages for group sizes and children per FTE are calculated from all 290 municipalities; the other national figures cover the whole country. Municipal data is aggregated and applies to all preschools in Pajala. Source: Skolverket preschool statistics. Updated annually.
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What we do not know about Backens Förskola
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- UncertainResources, teachers and staffTeacher and resource metrics do not always show subject mix, vacancies, student-health workflows or everyday staffing.
- MissingSupport resources and student healthWe do not yet have a verified national data source for special education, student health, adaptations, language support or contact routes per school.
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- UncertainAdmissions, placement and important datesMunicipal placement rules, queues and important dates require a local source and should be checked with the municipality or school.
- MissingVisits, facilities and everyday environmentWe lack sourced open-house information for this school. Facilities, accessibility and everyday environment are often not open comparable data.
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