Björkbackens Förskola in Skellefteå

PreschoolOperator: Skolföreningen Växa · Skellefteå, Västerbottens County

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BJÖRKBACKENS FÖRSKOLA is a small independent preschool with 26 children.

BJÖRKBACKENS FÖRSKOLA is a small independent preschool with 26 children. The share of staff with pedagogical higher education (24.6%) is below the national average of 43.6%.

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The most important facts in 3 points

  1. Preschool in Skellefteå with 26 enrolled children.
  2. Preschools are not covered by our inspection sync; check the Inspectorate or municipality if needed.
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Skolkoll interpretation

BJÖRKBACKENS FÖRSKOLA is compared here with 86 other schools with the same school form in Skellefteå municipality; it has 26 children versus the municipal average of 39.

Share with pedagogical higher education: 24.6%, 18.7 percentage points below the municipal average and 19.0 percentage points below the national average.

Children per staff member is 3.5, 1.5 lower than the municipal average.

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School programmes

  • Preschool

Things to look into

Worth looking into. These indicators are an attention aid, not a quality grade or risk score.

  • 24.6% of staff have pedagogical higher education — below the national average (43.6%).

Aerial view of the school

Aerial view of Björkbackens Förskola, orthophoto from Lantmäteriet

Aerial view of the school's surroundings. The property is marked from the register; building use has not been verified. Updated 2026. Source: Lantmäteriet · CC BY 4.0

Entrances:1 Skellefteå, Stackgatan 1, Skellefteå

School performance

Staff

24.6%
Share with pedagogical higher education

Municipality: 43.3% · Sweden: 43.6%

24.6% of staff have pedagogical higher education — 19.0 percentage points below the national average.

Share with pedagogical higher education Reliability: High reliability.
24.6%Municipality: 43.3% · Sweden: 43.6%
Children per staff member Reliability: High reliability.
3.5Municipality: 5.0 · Sweden: 5.1
High reliability — Reported directly by the school operator.

Source: Skolverket · Last updated: 5 Jul 2026

School environment

Safety & Inspection

No active cases
Recently inspected

No open remarks from the Schools Inspectorate.

Open remarks Reliability: High reliability.
0
High reliability — Inspection register and Skolenkäten survey.

Source: Schools Inspectorate + Skolverket · Last updated: 5 Jul 2026

Who runs the school

Operator

SKOLFÖRENINGEN VÄXA
Independent operator

143 other schools in the municipality.

SKOLFÖRENINGEN VÄXA operates this school independently.

Operator Reliability: High reliability.
SKOLFÖRENINGEN VÄXA
Operating form Reliability: High reliability.
Independent
Other schools in municipality Reliability: High reliability.
143
High reliability — Current data from Skolverket and Bolagsverket.

Source: Skolverket · Last updated: 5 Jul 2026

Next step: Apply for a place

Apply through Skellefteå e-service for preschool application.

Contact and address

Visiting address
STACKGATAN 1, 93138 SKELLEFTEÅ
Postal address
TORSGATAN 17 G, 93138 SKELLEFTEÅ
School unit code
forsk-650331

Source: Skolverket School Unit Register · Pipeline-fetched on 2026-07-05.

Everyday travelAreas that reach the school within 15 minutes.

Reachability from the school
15 min on foot
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Nearest and similar schools

  • BARNPORTALENS FÖRSKOLASame municipality· 69 children
  • BIRKAGÅRDS FÖRSKOLASame municipality· 31 children
  • BJÖRNÅKERS FÖRSKOLASame municipality· 64 children

About Skellefteå municipality

School-form averages across the municipality, with links to deep-dive sub-pages.

Schools
144
Avg. merit (yr 9)
222.7−5.0
Certified teachers
74%in line
Pupils per teacher
9.4−2.6

Source: Skolverket (aggregated school statistics).

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In-depth metrics

Staff stability

Declining

76.5% qualified teachers in municipality (2025) ▼ 4.9 pp over 5 years

Source: Kolada (municipality-aggregated certified teacher trend).

This preschool

Preschool statistics

Key figures for BJÖRKBACKENS FÖRSKOLA. Compared to municipal and national averages.

Enrolled children26
Children per FTE3.5municipality: 5.0, national: 5.0
Share with pedagogical higher education24.6%municipality: 43.3%, national: 43.6%

Staff educational background (2025)

Skolverket's mutually exclusive categories for staff in the preschool unit.

CategoryThis preschoolMunicipalityNational
Pedagogical higher educationpreschool teachers and others with a Swedish higher-education degree25%43.3%43.6%
Upper-secondary qualification for work with childrenchildcare assistant training or equivalent22%27.9%15.4%
Some pedagogical trainingfor example parts of a pedagogical education0%
Other educationother education, including foreign qualifications not validated in Sweden54%
Other educational background (combined)comparison row for the two categories that municipal and national statistics publish together54%28.8%40.2%

Of which preschool-teacher degree: 25%

Municipal preschool data for Skellefteå (2025) (5 metrics)
Children per group16.2national: 15.0
Children/group, ages 1–313.6national: 12.2
Children/group, ages 4–515.9national: 16.1
Share with pedagogical higher education43.3%national: 43.6%
Children per FTE (municipal average)5.0national: 5.0

National average calculated from all 290 municipalities. Municipal data is aggregated and applies to all preschools in Skellefteå. Source: Skolverket preschool statistics. Updated annually.

Data coverage

What we do not know about Björkbackens Förskola

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  • MissingEligibility and goal attainmentGrades, eligibility and goal-attainment data may be missing, suppressed or available only for some grades and school types.
  • 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.
  • MissingSafety and study environmentWe lack current or displayable survey data about safety and study environment for this school.
  • 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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