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Vallsta skola in Bollnäs

Compulsory school Year 1–6 BOLLNÄS Municipality · Bollnäs, Gävleborgs County

Headmaster: Daniel Johansson

44 /100
Skolkoll Score 44 out of 100. The scale goes from 0 (lowest) to 100 (highest). 50 is the average. This value is below average. What is the Skolkoll Score?

Vallsta skola is a small municipal compulsory school with 70 pupils.

Vallsta skola is a small municipal compulsory school with 70 pupils. The share of qualified teachers (61%) is below the national average of 74%.

The most important facts in 3 points

  1. Compulsory school in Bollnäs with 70 pupils.
  2. No current inspection decision is available in the open Schools Inspectorate data.
  3. Applying? Contact the municipality or provider for the current application route.

Skolkoll interpretation

Vallsta skola is compared here with 14 other schools with the same school form in Bollnäs municipality; it has 70 pupils versus the municipal average of 180.

Qualified teachers: 61%, 6 percentage points below the municipal average and 13 percentage points below the national average.

Pupils per teacher is 11.9, 0.2 higher than the municipal average.

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4 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

  • Anti-bullying year 8
  • Cost per student
  • Safety year 8
  • Number of pupils
  • The school survey relies on voluntary responses and results can vary substantially between years for small samples.
  • Costs are affected by accounting practices, rent levels, and service mix, and should mainly be compared across similar school types.
  • 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 Vallsta skola, 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 Bollnäs, Vallsta riksväg 24, Vallsta

School performance

Staff

61%
Qualified teachers

Municipality: 67% · Sweden: 74%

61% of teachers hold a pedagogical degree — 13% below the national average.

Qualified teachers Reliability: High reliability.
61% Municipality: 67% · Sweden: 74%
Pupils per teacher Reliability: High reliability.
11.9 Municipality: 11.7 · Sweden: 12.1
High reliability — Reported directly by the school operator.

Source: Skolverket · Last updated: 27 May 2026

School environment

Safety & Inspection

No active cases
Recently inspected

Safety index: 62 / 100

No open remarks from the Schools Inspectorate.

Open remarks Reliability: High reliability.
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Safety index Reliability: High reliability.
62 / 100 Safety: 77% · Study peace: 51% · Anti-bullying: 48% · Staff: 62%

Safety index

62 / 100 (High data coverage)
  • Safety 77%
  • Study peace 51%
  • Anti-bullying 48%
  • Staff 62%

School Survey — all perspectives

Dimension Pupils (åk 8) Guardian Staff
Safety 7.7 / 10
Study environment 5.1 / 10
Anti-bullying 4.8 / 10
Stimulation 5.4 / 10
Support 6.3 / 10

Scale 0–10 (rescaled from Skolverket's 0–100). Guardian and staff perspectives are often not in open data.

High reliability — Inspection register and Skolenkäten survey.

Source: Schools Inspectorate + Skolverket · Last updated: 29 Mar 2026

Resources

146,677 SEK
Cost per pupil (total)

Sweden: 142,155 SEK

Cost per pupil is 3% above the national average.

Cost per pupil (total) Reliability: Limited history.
146,677 SEK Sweden: 142,155 SEK
Teaching Reliability: Moderate reliability.
79,100 SEK
Facilities Reliability: Moderate reliability.
28,700 SEK
Limited history — Cost data updated annually by Kolada/SCB.

Source: SCB & Kolada · Last updated: 3 May 2026

Who runs the school

Operator

BOLLNÄS KOMMUN
Municipal operator

49 other schools in the municipality.

BOLLNÄS Municipality
Municipal operator: BOLLNÄS Municipality Bollnäs kommun · 50 skolor i kommunen

BOLLNÄS KOMMUN is the operator. The municipality has 49 other schools.

Operator Reliability: High reliability.
BOLLNÄS KOMMUN
Operating form Reliability: High reliability.
Municipal own operation
Other schools in municipality Reliability: High reliability.
49
High reliability — Current data from Skolverket and Bolagsverket.

Source: Skolverket · Last updated: 27 May 2026

Contact and address

Headmaster
Daniel Johansson
Visiting address
Riksvägen 24, 82167 Vallsta
Postal address
82180 BOLLNÄS
School unit code
81577420

Source: Skolverket School Unit Register · Pipeline-fetched on 2026-05-27.

Nearest and similar schools

About Bollnäs municipality

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

Schools
50
Avg. merit (yr 9)
208.9 −18.7
Certified teachers
66% −9 pp
Pupils per teacher
11.0 −1.1

Source: Skolverket (aggregated school statistics).

Similar schools

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

School survey perspectives

Pupils, guardians and staff — same school, different answers

Survey results broken down by respondent group on a 0–10 scale. Groups can experience the same school very differently — notable gaps are highlighted below.

Pupils Guardians

Text summary of the chart:

  • Pupils: Safety 7.5, Study environment 4.5, Stimulation 6.1, Support 6.2, Anti-bullying 6.2.
  • Guardians: Safety 5.9, Study environment 4.5, Stimulation 6.4, Support 6.2.
2 5 8 Safety Pupils · Safety: 7.5 7.5 Guardians · Safety: 5.9 5.9 Study environment Pupils · Study environment: 4.5 4.5 Guardians · Study environment: 4.5 4.5 Stimulation Pupils · Stimulation: 6.1 6.1 Guardians · Stimulation: 6.4 6.4 Support Pupils · Support: 6.2 6.2 Guardians · Support: 6.2 6.2 Anti-bullying Pupils · Anti-bullying: 6.2 6.2

Automatically flagged gaps

Guardians report lower safety (5.9) than Pupils (7.5). (on the 0–10 scale)

Staff results are not published per school by Skolinspektionen today, so the staff view appears only when available.

Pupils per year

Number of pupils per year group (total 74 pupils). Latest available year from Skolverket (SIRIS).

Yr 1 19 pupils in Yr 1
Yr 2 12 pupils in Yr 2
Yr 3 13 pupils in Yr 3
Yr 4 8 pupils in Yr 4
Yr 5 8 pupils in Yr 5
Yr 6 14 pupils in Yr 6

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In-depth metrics

Staff stability

Improving

67.7% qualified teachers in municipality (2025) ▲ + 6.1 pp over 5 years

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

Throughput year 6 → year 9

73.1% → 60.4%

▼ 12.7 pp drop year 6 → year 9

  • 14 pupils yr 6

Source: Skolverket SIRIS + Skolverket Statistical Database.

How do pupils feel? ( Skolenkäten The Schools Inspectorate’s survey sent to pupils, parents, and staff about safety, classroom order, and teaching. Read more in glossary → )

Strongest (Year 5)

  • Safety: 76 (national 82)
  • Support: 71 (national 74)

Weakest (Year 5)

  • Study environment: 51 (national 57)
  • Anti-bullying: 59 (national 65)

Trust score has fallen from 8.6 to 6.1 since 2023.

Source: Skolinspektionen Skolenkäten 2025. Updated annually. · See all years and dimensions in the data view →