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Pops Academy Umeå

Compulsory school Year 9–9 AcadeMedia AB · Umeå, Västerbottens County

Group: AcadeMedia AB

Pops Academy Umeå is a small group-operated compulsory school.

Pops Academy Umeå is a small group-operated compulsory school.

The most important facts in 3 points

  1. Compulsory school in Umeå. Pupil count is missing from the latest open data.
  2. The latest inspection (2023) has no recorded deficiencies in our data.
  3. The school is not active in Skolverket's register; check status before choosing.
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6 values need extra caution

This applies only to the values listed here.

This value is missing in full or in part.

This affects

  • Certified teachers
  • Eligible for vocational programmes
  • Merit score year 9
  • SALSA score
  • Pupils per teacher
  • Number of pupils
  • This staffing metric is affected by FTE definitions, local reporting practices, and temporary vacancies.
  • This result metric can be affected by privacy suppression, small cohorts, and changes in pupil composition between years.
  • SALSA is model-based and becomes less stable for small pupil groups or schools with rapidly changing pupil composition.
  • 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

  • Compulsory school

Signals from the School Inspectorate and reporting channels

No active warnings.

No signals 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 Pops Academy Umeå, 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 Umeå, Vildmannavägen 7, Umeå

School performance

Staff

95%
Permanently employed

Staff data reported by the school operator.

Permanently employed Reliability: Moderate reliability.
95%
Senior teachers (förstelärare) Reliability: Moderate reliability.
Data missing — the Swedish National Agency for Education has not published this value.
Pupils per counsellor Reliability: Moderate reliability.
1,315.0
Certified in their teaching subject Reliability: Moderate reliability.
84%
Teachers (FTE) Reliability: Moderate reliability.
59.3
Share of female teachers Reliability: Moderate reliability.
57%
Teacher turnover Reliability: Moderate reliability.
13%
Moderate reliability — Personnel fields from Skolverket's annual Personal report (1-2 year data lag).

Source: Skolverket · Last updated: 20 Jun 2026

School environment

Safety & Inspection

3 open
Recently inspected 2023

3 open remark(s) from the Schools Inspectorate.

Latest inspection decision Reliability: High reliability.
2023-10-05 — Regelb. tillsyn Etableringskontroll Grundskolan Umeå Pops Academy Umeå, 2023 (pdf, 662 kB)
Open remarks Reliability: High reliability.
3
High reliability — Inspection register and Skolenkäten survey.

Source: Schools Inspectorate + Skolverket · Last updated: 19 Jun 2026

Resources

131,657 SEK
Cost per pupil (total)

Sweden: 144,179 SEK

Cost per pupil is 9% below the national average.

Cost per pupil (total) Reliability: Limited history.
131,657 SEK Sweden: 144,179 SEK
Limited history — Cost data updated annually by Kolada/SCB.

Source: SCB & Kolada · Last updated: 17 Jun 2026

Who runs the school

Operator

AcadeMedia AB
Group operator

200 other schools in the municipality.

AcadeMedia AB operates this school as part of a larger concern.

Operator Reliability: High reliability.
AcadeMedia AB
Operating form Reliability: High reliability.
Group-operated
Concern (parent organisation) Reliability: High reliability.
AcadeMedia AB
Concern org. number Reliability: High reliability.
5568460231
Other schools in municipality Reliability: High reliability.
200
High reliability — Current data from Skolverket and Bolagsverket.

Source: Skolverket · Last updated: 20 Jun 2026

Contact and address

Visiting address
Umestan företagspark, Hus 1, 90347 Umeå
Postal address
Box 213, 10124 STOCKHOLM
School unit code
41363340

Source: Skolverket School Unit Register · Pipeline-fetched on 2026-06-20.

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About Umeå municipality

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

Schools
200
Avg. merit (yr 9)
221.6 −6.0
Certified teachers
82% +8 pp
Pupils per teacher
12.5 +0.5

Source: Skolverket (aggregated school statistics).

Similar schools

The 5 most-similar compulsory schools based on student count, geography, teacher certification and pupil composition.

Pupils per year

Number of pupils per year group (total 13 pupils). Latest available year from Skolverket (SIRIS).

Yr 9 13 pupils in Yr 9

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In-depth metrics

Staff stability

Declining

81.6% qualified teachers in municipality (2025) ▼ 1.9 pp over 5 years

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

Throughput year 6 → year 9

86.0% → 80.1%

▼ 5.9 pp drop year 6 → year 9

  • 13 pupils yr 9

Source: Skolverket SIRIS + Skolverket Statistical Database.

Inspections & decisions

The Schools Inspectorate has issued an injunction against this school. The school must take corrective action. Most recent decision: Oct 2023.

Source: Skolinspektionen tillsynsregister (open data). Updated when new decisions are published.