Timmersvansens Förskola in Älvsbyn

PreschoolOperator: Älvsbyn Municipality · Älvsbyn, Norrbottens County

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TIMMERSVANSENS FÖRSKOLA is a medium-sized municipal preschool with 60 children.

TIMMERSVANSENS FÖRSKOLA is a medium-sized municipal preschool with 60 children. The share of staff with pedagogical higher education (64.4%) is above the national average of 43.6%.

Next steps

The most important facts in 3 points

  1. Preschool in Älvsbyn with 60 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

TIMMERSVANSENS FÖRSKOLA is compared here with 6 other schools with the same school form in Älvsbyn municipality; it has 60 children versus the municipal average of 47.

Share with pedagogical higher education: 64.4%, 4.2 percentage points above the municipal average and 20.8 percentage points above the national average.

Children per staff member is 4.0, 0.3 lower than the municipal average.

Apply for a place? See Älvsbyn school portal (opens in a new window) for information about preschool application.

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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

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 Timmersvansens 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 Älvsbyn, Timmerstigen 1, Älvsbyn

School performance

Staff

64.4%
Share with pedagogical higher education

Municipality: 60.2% · Sweden: 43.6%

64.4% of staff have pedagogical higher education — 20.8 percentage points above the national average.

Share with pedagogical higher education Reliability: High reliability.
64.4%Municipality: 60.2% · Sweden: 43.6%
Children per staff member Reliability: High reliability.
4.0Municipality: 4.3 · 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

ÄLVSBYNS KOMMUN
Municipal operator

15 other schools in the municipality.

Älvsbyn Municipality
Municipal operator:Älvsbyn MunicipalityÄlvsbyn Municipality · 16 schools in the municipality

ÄLVSBYNS KOMMUN is the operator. The municipality has 15 other schools.

Operator Reliability: High reliability.
ÄLVSBYNS KOMMUN
Operating form Reliability: High reliability.
Municipal own operation
Other schools in municipality Reliability: High reliability.
15
High reliability — Current data from Skolverket and Bolagsverket.

Source: Skolverket · Last updated: 5 Jul 2026

Next step: Apply for a place

Use Älvsbyn school portal for information about preschool application.

Contact and address

Visiting address
TIMMERSTIGEN 1, 94236 ÄLVSBYN
Postal address
94285 ÄLVSBYN
School unit code
forsk-492016

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

  • KORSTRÄSK FÖRSKOLASame municipality· 21 children
  • PÄRLANS FÖRSKOLASame municipality· 81 children
  • VIDSELS FÖRSKOLASame municipality· 20 children

About Älvsbyn municipality

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

Schools
16
Avg. merit (yr 9)
218.3−9.4
Certified teachers
72%in line
Pupils per teacher
10.5−1.5

Source: Skolverket (aggregated school statistics).

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In-depth metrics

Staff stability

Declining

72.5% qualified teachers in municipality (2025) ▼ 3.2 pp over 5 years

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

This preschool

Preschool statistics

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

Enrolled children60
Children per FTE4.0municipality: 4.3, national: 5.0
Share with pedagogical higher education64.4%municipality: 60.2%, 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 degree64%60.2%43.6%
Upper-secondary qualification for work with childrenchildcare assistant training or equivalent5%8.6%15.4%
Some pedagogical trainingfor example parts of a pedagogical education7%
Other educationother education, including foreign qualifications not validated in Sweden24%
Other educational background (combined)comparison row for the two categories that municipal and national statistics publish together30%31.2%40.2%

Of which preschool-teacher degree: 64%

Municipal preschool data for Älvsbyn (2025) (5 metrics)
Children per group15.7national: 15.0
Children/group, ages 1–313.3national: 12.2
Children/group, ages 4–515.5national: 16.1
Share with pedagogical higher education60.2%national: 43.6%
Children per FTE (municipal average)4.3national: 5.0

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

Data coverage

What we do not know about Timmersvansens Förskola

Open school data is not complete. Use this as a checklist for what to verify with the school, provider or municipality.

  • 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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