Igelkottens Förskola in Värnamo

PreschoolOperator: Värnamo Municipality · Värnamo, Jönköpings County

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IGELKOTTENS FÖRSKOLA is a small municipal preschool with 29 children.

IGELKOTTENS FÖRSKOLA is a small municipal preschool with 29 children. The share of staff with pedagogical higher education (53.8%) is above the national average of 44.3%.

Children
29High reliability
Municipality: 1,508
Share with pedagogical higher education
53.8%High reliability
Municipality: 49.0% · Sweden: 44.3%
Children per staff member
4.5High reliability
Municipality: 5.3 · Sweden: 5.1
Next steps

The most important facts in 3 points

  1. Preschool in Värnamo with 29 enrolled children.
  2. Preschools are not covered by our inspection sync; check the Inspectorate or municipality if needed.
  3. Applying? Go to the school's application link on this page.

Skolkoll interpretation

IGELKOTTENS FÖRSKOLA is compared here with 35 other schools with the same school form in Värnamo municipality; it has 29 children versus the municipal average of 43.

Share with pedagogical higher education: 53.8%, 4.8 percentage points above the municipal average and 9.5 percentage points above the national average.

Children per staff member is 4.5, 0.8 lower than the municipal average.

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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

No clear flag.

No clear attention flags from key-figure deviations or the School Inspectorate's public register. Detailed inspection history is shown in the "Safety & Inspection" card below.

Aerial view of the school

Aerial view of Igelkottens Förskola, orthophoto from Lantmäteriet

The school's property boundary and buildings from the Swedish Land Survey's property register. Updated 2026. Source: Lantmäteriet · CC BY 4.0

Entrances:1 Värnamo, Järnvägsgatan 35, Horda

School performance

Staff

53.8%
Share with pedagogical higher education

Municipality: 49.0% · Sweden: 44.3%

53.8% of staff have pedagogical higher education — 9.5 percentage points above the national average.

Share with pedagogical higher education Reliability: High reliability.
53.8%Municipality: 49.0% · Sweden: 44.3%
Children per staff member Reliability: High reliability.
4.5Municipality: 5.3 · Sweden: 5.1
High reliability — Reported directly by the school operator.

Source: Skolverket · Last updated: 5 Oct 2026

School environment

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

VÄRNAMO KOMMUN
Municipal operator

68 other schools in the municipality.

Värnamo Municipality
Municipal operator:Värnamo MunicipalityVärnamo Municipality · 69 schools in the municipality

VÄRNAMO KOMMUN is the operator. The municipality has 68 other schools.

Operator Reliability: High reliability.
VÄRNAMO KOMMUN
Operating form Reliability: High reliability.
Municipal own operation
Other schools in municipality Reliability: High reliability.
68
High reliability — Current data from Skolverket and Bolagsverket.

Source: Skolverket · Last updated: 5 Oct 2026

Next step: Apply for a place

Apply through Värnamo e-service for preschool application.

Contact and address

Visiting address
JÄRNVÄGSGATAN 35, 33179 HORDA
Postal address
33183 VÄRNAMO
School unit code
forsk-343128

Source: Skolverket School Unit Register · Pipeline-fetched on 2026-10-05.

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

  • DAGGKÅPANS FÖRSKOLASame municipality· 19 children
  • EKBACKENS FÖRSKOLASame municipality· 50 children
  • FYRKLÖVERNS FÖRSKOLASame municipality· 58 children

About Värnamo municipality

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

Schools
69
Avg. merit (yr 9)
219.4−8.2
Certified teachers
69%−4 pp
Pupils per teacher
11.2−0.7

Source: Skolverket (aggregated school statistics).

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In-depth metrics

Staff stability

Declining

70.3% qualified teachers in municipality (2025) ▼ 2.5 pp over 5 years

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

This preschool

Preschool statistics

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

Enrolled children29
Children per FTE4.5municipality: 5.3, national: 5.0
Share with pedagogical higher education53.8%municipality: 49.0%, national: 44.3%

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.

CategoryThis preschoolMunicipalityNational
Pedagogical higher educationpreschool teachers and others with a Swedish higher-education degree54%49.0%44.3%
Upper-secondary qualification for work with childrenchildcare assistant training or equivalent15%21.6%15.4%
Some pedagogical trainingfor example parts of a pedagogical education31%––
Other educationother education, including foreign qualifications not validated in Sweden0%––
Other educational background (combined)comparison row for the two categories that municipal and national statistics publish together31%29.4%40.2%

Of which preschool-teacher degree: 54%

Preschool-teacher licence (share of full-time posts): 54% · Municipality 51.3% · 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)

ShareThis preschoolNational
Share of girls55% (exact value 55.2%)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)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 education66% (exact value 65.5%)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 Värnamo (2025) (2 metrics)
Share with pedagogical higher education49.0%national: 44.3%
Children per FTE (municipal average)5.3national: 5.0

The national average for children per FTE is calculated from all 290 municipalities; the other national figures cover the whole country. Municipal data is aggregated and applies to all preschools in Värnamo. Source: Skolverket preschool statistics. Updated annually.

Data coverage

What we do not know about Igelkottens Förskola

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  • MissingResults and score inputsSkolkoll score is not shown for this school type or lacks enough underlying data.
  • 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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