Independent vs municipal compulsory schools in Jönköping

Jönköping: 7 independent and 50 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 Jönköping

The comparison covers 7 compulsory schools with an independent operator and 50 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

Metric	Independent operator	Municipal operator
Number of compulsory schools	7	50
Merit score year 9	202.9 pointsmedian 228.1 · range 59.6–248.76 of 7 schools · school year 2025/261 value withheld for confidentiality	220.6 pointsmedian 215.6 · range 195.7–247.39 of 11 schools · school year 2025/261 value withheld for confidentiality · 1 school without a published value
Certified teachers	56.6%median 55.2 · range 36–78.86 of 7 schools · school year 2025/261 school without a published value	80.1%median 80.5 · range 47.2–96.949 of 50 schools · school year 2025/261 school without a published value
Pupils per teacher	10.7median 12.8 · range 2.6–14.17 of 7 schools · school year 2025/26	11.6median 12.1 · range 1.6–15.449 of 50 schools · school year 2025/261 school without a published value

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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Compulsory schools with an independent operator (7)

Listed alphabetically — this page does not rank schools.

School	Merit score yr 9	Certified teachers	Compulsory-school pupils	Operator
Internationella Engelska Skolan Jönköping	248.7	–	740	Internationella Engelska Skolan i Sverige AB
Kunskapsskolan Jönköping	211.8	63%	180	Kunskapsskolan i Sverige Aktiebolag
Magelungens Grundskola Jönköping	59.6	79%	40	Magelungen Utveckling AB
Magnus Ladulåsskolan	–	36%	20	J-SON PEDAGOGIKCENTRUM AB
Prolympia Jönköping	229.7	51%	490	Prolympia AB
Strandskolan	240.8	55%	110	JÖNKÖPINGS KRISTNA SKOLFÖRENING
Vittra Samset	226.5	55%	260	Vittraskolorna AB

Compulsory schools with a municipal operator (50)

Listed alphabetically — this page does not rank schools.

School	Merit score yr 9	Certified teachers	Compulsory-school pupils
Alfred Dalinskolan	215.6	87%	730
Attarpsskolan 7-9	235.7	84%	450
Attarpsskolan F-6	–	90%	350
Barnarpsskolan	–	73%	330
Bottnarydsskolan	–	80%	180
Brodalsskolan	–	78%	160
Dalviksskolan	–	81%	260
Djupadalsskolan 7-9	–	–	–
Ekhagsskolan	–	72%	370
Fagerslättskolan	–	84%	260
Flahultsskolan	214.7	77%	440
Gräshagsskolan	–	90%	200
Grästorpsskolan	–	97%	90
Hisingstorpsskolan	–	82%	380
Hovslättsskolan	–	89%	380
Junedalsskolan	242.1	79%	840
Kumlabyskolan	–	63%	30
Kålgårdsskolan	–	75%	170
Landsjöskolan	–	86%	290
Lekerydsskolan	–	79%	300
Ljungarumsskolan 7-9	226.8	84%	550
Ljungarumsskolan F-6	–	75%	230
Månsarpsskolan	–	77%	140
Nordskogens skola	–	67%	20
Norrängsskolan	–	88%	220
Nyarpsskolan	–	92%	230
Ribbaskolan 7-9	203.8	76%	330
Ribbaskolan F-6	–	57%	190
Rosenlundsskolan 7-9	195.7	78%	550
Rosenlundsskolan F-6	–	93%	220
Råslättsskolan	–	77%	420
Sanda högstadium	247.3	77%	370
Skärstad skola	–	97%	50
Slättenskolan	–	86%	270
Stadsgårdsskolan	203.9	71%	360
Stensholmsskolan	–	84%	320
Strömsbergsskolan	–	93%	70
Södergårdsskolan	–	78%	380
Tabergsskolan	–	91%	200
Taheskolan F-6	–	59%	160
Talavidskolan F-6	–	86%	380
Tenhultsskolan	–	83%	430
Torpaskolan	–	83%	430
Torps skola	–	94%	250
Vätterslundsskolan	–	86%	60
Ödestugu skola	–	85%	40
Ölmstadskolan	–	78%	210
Örserumsskolan	–	47%	20
Österängsskolan	–	66%	160
Öxnehagaskolan	–	73%	300

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