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Mälardalens Ridgymnasium Västerås

Upper secondary school Mälardalens Ridgymnasium Västerås Handelsbolag · Västerås, Västmanlands County

Headmaster: Mia Pettersson

Mälardalens Ridgymnasium Västerås is a small independent upper secondary school with 80 pupils.

Mälardalens Ridgymnasium Västerås is a small independent upper secondary school with 80 pupils.

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The Data view is optimised for in-depth analysis: history, sources, methodology and export. For a summary interpretation, see Overview.

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

1 priority events out of 1 total: Lifecycle — School started.

All 1 Lifecycle 1
high 1 medium 0 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.

  1. Lifecycle School started

    Skolverket records 2013-10-01 as the start date for this upper secondary school operated by Mälardalens Ridgymnasium Västerås Handelsbolag, current status AKTIV.

    Register event Source: Skolverket school-unit register Confidence: high Date precision: day

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 Mälardalens Ridgymnasium Västerås 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.

No in-depth history events found for Mälardalens Ridgymnasium Västerås.

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.

No major locally-computed deviation signals found in the school's historical key figures.

Register sources: Skolverket (fetched 27 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.

School survey (agree, %)

Safety, upper secondary yr 2
83% Limited history There is still too little history to interpret the trend safely. This affects Safety upper sec. year 2 The school survey relies on voluntary responses and results can vary substantially between years for small samples. Read more about the method →
Study peace, upper secondary yr 2
46% Limited history There is still too little history to interpret the trend safely. This affects Study environment upper sec. year 2 The school survey relies on voluntary responses and results can vary substantially between years for small samples. Read more about the method →
Anti-bullying, upper secondary yr 2
47%
Stimulation, upper secondary yr 2
48%

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

Demography

Pupil forecast — Västerås

Number of children in the age group ages 16–18 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 16–18 (2025) 5,834
ages 16–18 (2030) 6,070
ages 16–18 (2035) 6,085
Change 2025→2030 +4.0%

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

Västerås municipality — history (school form: upper secondary 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 5,7865,7095,7315,6015,602
Avg. graduation grade 14.714.714.814.914.8
Examination rate (3 yr) 72.0%72.3%71.6%70.8%68.8%
Higher-ed eligibility (3 yr) 58.7%60.7%61.3%60.4%60.5%
Cost per pupil 140,315 SEK138,200 SEK130,485 SEK125,868 SEK119,454 SEK

Source: Kolada (Swedish council for municipal analyses).

Data sources

Skolkoll is built exclusively on public data sources. Each row below shows the source, fetch date, and which metrics come from it.

Methodology and definitions

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