Independent vs municipal compulsory schools in Norrtälje

Norrtälje: 11 independent and 23 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 Norrtälje

The comparison covers 11 compulsory schools with an independent operator and 23 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 schools1123
Merit score year 9240.5 pointsmedian 233.3 · range 221–265.65 of 7 schools · school year 2025/262 schools without a published value220.8 pointsmedian 227.2 · range 182.7–2386 of 7 schools · school year 2025/261 school without a published value
Certified teachers64.9%median 65.2 · range 35.7–86.29 of 11 schools · school year 2025/261 value withheld for confidentiality · 1 school without a published value · the values come from 2 different school years66.3%median 69.2 · range 38.5–89.422 of 23 schools · school year 2025/261 school without a published value · the values come from 2 different school years
Pupils per teacher12.1median 13.6 · range 0.6–17.310 of 11 schools · school year 2025/261 value withheld for confidentiality · the values come from 2 different school years12.6median 13 · range 4.8–16.922 of 23 schools · school year 2025/261 school without a published value · the 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 (11)

Listed alphabetically — this page does not rank schools.

SchoolMerit score yr 9Certified teachersCompulsory-school pupilsOperator
Balderskolan––10Utvecklingspedagogik Sverige Aktiebolag
Ekebyholmsskolan, gr265.665%210EKEBYHOLMSSKOLAN AKTIEBOLAG
Freinetskolan Hugin255.558%230Freinetskolan Hugin Ekonomisk förening
Freinetskolan Mimer–74%150Freinetskolan Mimer ekonomisk förening
Freinetskolan Mimer Tingshuset227.162%170Freinetskolan Mimer ekonomisk förening
Innovitaskolan Norrtälje–67%200AcadeMedia Grundskolor AB
Internationella Engelska Skolan Norrtälje––360Internationella Engelska Skolan i Sverige AB
Montessoriskolan - Gustafslund233.354%270Montessori i Norrtälje AB
Montessoriskolan Vigelsjö–86%10Montessori i Norrtälje AB
Skärsta Friskola–36%70Skärsta Friskola Ekonomisk förening
Viby friskola22182%140OGENHOLTS FRISKOLA AB

Compulsory schools with a municipal operator (23)

Listed alphabetically — this page does not rank schools.

SchoolMerit score yr 9Certified teachersCompulsory-school pupils
Bålbroskolan–75%160
Drottningdals skola–72%90
Edsbro skola–39%40
Elmsta skola–65%140
Frötuna skola–80%220
Gottsta Skola–44%140
Grisslehamns skola–89%30
Hallsta skola218.543%300
Kvisthamraskolan–73%290
Köpmanholms skola–45%30
Lommarskolan–––
Långsjöskolan182.756%430
Länna skola23876%280
Norrgärdsskolan–83%390
Norrsundsskolan231.166%80
Riala skola–82%50
Roslagsskolan227.568%440
Rådmansö skola–70%110
Rånäs skola–56%50
Skebo skola–52%40
Skederids skola–59%130
Svanberga skola226.888%390
Vätö skola–78%40

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