Staff stability
Declining
Source: Kolada (municipality-aggregated certified teacher trend).
MARIAFÖRSKOLA B is a medium-sized municipal preschool with 121 children.
MARIAFÖRSKOLA B is a medium-sized municipal preschool with 121 children. The share of staff with pedagogical higher education (19.7%) is below the national average of 43.6%.
- 121ChildrenMunicipality: 689High reliability
- 19.7%Share with pedagogical higher educationMunicipality: 19.9% · Sweden: 43.6%High reliability
- 4.8Children per staff memberMunicipality: 4.6 · Sweden: 5.1High reliability
The most important facts in 3 points
- Preschool in Gällivare with 121 enrolled children.
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Skolkoll interpretation
MARIAFÖRSKOLA B is compared here with 16 other schools with the same school form in Gällivare municipality; it has 121 children versus the municipal average of 49.
Share with pedagogical higher education: 19.7%, 0.2 percentage points below the municipal average and 23.9 percentage points below the national average.
Children per staff member is 4.8, 0.2 higher than the municipal average.
Apply for a place? Use Gällivare e-service for preschool application (opens in a new window).
3 values has limited history
This applies only to the values listed here.
There is still too little history to interpret the trend safely.
This affects
- Certified teachers
- Pupils per teacher
- Number of pupils
- 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.
- 19.7% of staff have pedagogical higher education — below the national average (43.6%).
Aerial view of the school
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 Gällivare, Kvistaregatan 39A, Gällivare
School performance
Staff
19.7%Share with pedagogical higher educationMunicipality: 19.9% · Sweden: 43.6%
Staff
19.7%
Share with pedagogical higher education
School environment
Safety & Inspection
No active casesRecently inspected
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
GÄLLIVARE KOMMUNMunicipal operator35 other schools in the municipality.
Operator
GÄLLIVARE KOMMUN
Municipal operator
GÄLLIVARE KOMMUN is the operator. The municipality has 35 other schools.
- Operator Reliability: High reliability.
- GÄLLIVARE KOMMUN
- Operating form Reliability: High reliability.
- Municipal own operation
- Other schools in municipality Reliability: High reliability.
- 35
High reliability — Current data from Skolverket and Bolagsverket.
Source: Skolverket · Last updated: 5 Jul 2026
Next step: Apply for a place
Apply through Gällivare e-service for preschool application.
Contact and address
- Visiting address
- KVISTAREGATAN 39, 98281 GÄLLIVARE
- Postal address
- 98281 GÄLLIVARE
- School unit code
forsk-315746
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
15 min by bike
School
Nearest and similar schools
- AURORASame municipality· 57 children
- DUNDRETS FÖRSKOLA EK. FÖRENINGSame municipality· 22 children
- EMMA FÖRSKOLASame municipality· 27 children
About Gällivare municipality
School-form averages across the municipality, with links to deep-dive sub-pages.
- Schools
- 36
- Avg. merit (yr 9)
- 228.3in line
- Certified teachers
- 54%−19 pp
- Pupils per teacher
- 11.0−1.0
Source: Skolverket (aggregated school statistics).
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Preschool statistics
Key figures for MARIAFÖRSKOLA B. Compared to municipal and national averages.
Staff educational background (2025)
Skolverket's mutually exclusive categories for staff in the preschool unit.
| Category | This preschool | Municipality | National |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pedagogical higher educationpreschool teachers and others with a Swedish higher-education degree | 20% | 19.9% | 43.6% |
| Upper-secondary qualification for work with childrenchildcare assistant training or equivalent | 15% | 18.2% | 15.4% |
| Some pedagogical trainingfor example parts of a pedagogical education | 20% | – | – |
| Other educationother education, including foreign qualifications not validated in Sweden | 46% | – | – |
| Other educational background (combined)comparison row for the two categories that municipal and national statistics publish together | 65% | 61.8% | 40.2% |
Of which preschool-teacher degree: 20%
Municipal preschool data for Gällivare (2025) (5 metrics)
National average calculated from all 290 municipalities. Municipal data is aggregated and applies to all preschools in Gällivare. Source: Skolverket preschool statistics. Updated annually.
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What we do not know about Mariaförskola B
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