Independent vs municipal compulsory schools in Borlänge

Borlänge: 3 independent and 17 municipal compulsory schools. Merit score, teacher certification and pupils per teacher — with school year, the number of schools behind each figure, and what is missing.

These figures describe differences; they do not explain them. Schools differ in pupil composition, size and catchment area, and those differences do not follow the type of operator. Two schools with the same operator can differ more than the groups do.

The data behind this comparison in Borlänge

The comparison covers 3 compulsory schools with an independent operator and 17 with a municipal operator. Each metric is reported against its own data: how many of the schools have a published value, which school year that value refers to, and what is missing.

Key figures side by side

MetricIndependent operatorMunicipal operator
Number of compulsory schools317
Merit score year 9Merit score year 9 is not shown. The data is 2 of 3 schools with an independent operator and 5 of 5 schools with a municipal operator. An average of fewer than 3 schools describes individual schools, not a group.
Certified teachers56.6%median 51 · range 46.7–72.13 of 3 schools · school year 2025/2667%median 68.5 · range 52.9–80.417 of 17 schools · school year 2025/26the values come from 2 different school years
Pupils per teacher9.7median 12 · range 2.5–14.63 of 3 schools · school year 2025/2612.2median 12.4 · range 8.5–16.517 of 17 schools · school year 2025/26the values come from 2 different school years
How we calculate — and what these figures cannot tell you

Each value is an unweighted mean of the school-level values: a school with 40 pupils counts as much as one with 500. That is why we also show the median and the range, so a difference between two means is not read as an even gap between the groups.

We publish no group average based on fewer than 3 schools with a published value, or covering less than 60% of the schools in the group. An average of one or two schools describes those schools rather than a type of operator. Nor do we compare two groups whose values refer to different school years.

The comparison covers compulsory school (grundskola). Preschool class, leisure-time centres and adapted compulsory school are not included in the figures even where the school unit also runs them, and units running both compulsory and upper-secondary education are excluded because their teacher and pupil figures cannot be separated by school form. Schools whose operator type is neither municipal nor independent, or is not recorded, belong to neither group.

Skolverket withholds values for groups with fewer than ten pupils. Such gaps are not random — they hit small schools hardest — and are therefore reported separately from values that are simply absent.

Merit score year 9

Definition
Average merit score for year 9 students. Calculated as the sum of the 16 best grades (max 320 points, 340 with modern languages), where each grade gives 0–20 points.
Unit
poäng (0–340)
Source
Skolverket
Level
School level
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Certified teachers

Definition
The share of teachers (in full-time equivalents) who hold a Swedish teaching licence (lärarlegitimation) and are qualified to teach, where qualification covers the school type, subject and, in compulsory school, the grade band of the teaching they do.
Unit
% (0–100)
Source
Skolverket
Level
School level
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Pupils per teacher

Definition
Number of students per full-time equivalent teacher. Lower values indicate more teaching resources per student.
Unit
ratio
Source
Skolverket
Level
School level
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Read more: what the merit score shows and does not show ·why values are missing ·school unit, operator and group ·Skolkoll's method

Compulsory schools with an independent operator (3)

Listed alphabetically — this page does not rank schools.

SchoolMerit score yr 9Certified teachersCompulsory-school pupilsOperator
Immanuelskolan113.551%130STIFTELSEN IMMANUEL
Kunskapsskolan Borlänge227.572%310Kunskapsskolan i Sverige Aktiebolag
Lanternan–47%20Adventum Specialpedagogik AB

Compulsory schools with a municipal operator (17)

Listed alphabetically — this page does not rank schools.

SchoolMerit score yr 9Certified teachersCompulsory-school pupils
Amsbergs skola–67%20
Domnarvets skola218.262%580
Forssaklackskolan209.669%480
Forssaängskolan–73%290
Gylle skola 7-920553%400
Gylle skola F-6–63%460
Halvarsgårdars skola–58%80
Kvarnsvedens skola–80%450
Kyrkskolan–69%140
Maserskolan195.775%260
Nygårdskolan–57%230
Ornäs skola222.571%420
Paradisskolan–71%290
Skräddarbacksskolan–78%430
Tjärnaskolan–62%250
Torsångs skola–63%70
Tunets skola–69%130

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Source: Skolverket. The school year is stated per metric in the table, because the metrics are collected at different times.