Independent vs municipal compulsory schools in Örnsköldsvik

Örnsköldsvik: 4 independent and 31 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 Örnsköldsvik

The comparison covers 4 compulsory schools with an independent operator and 31 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 schools431
Merit score year 9Merit score year 9 is not shown. The data is 1 of 2 schools with an independent operator and 9 of 9 schools with a municipal operator. An average of fewer than 3 schools describes individual schools, not a group.
Certified teachers62.9%median 66.1 · range 47.9–71.64 of 4 schools · school year 2025/26the values come from 2 different school years75.1%median 77 · range 43.4–96.831 of 31 schools · school year 2025/26the values come from 2 different school years
Pupils per teacher7.8median 9.2 · range 2.5–10.44 of 4 schools · school year 2025/26the values come from 2 different school years10.9median 10.5 · range 7.7–17.131 of 31 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 (4)

Listed alphabetically — this page does not rank schools.

SchoolMerit score yr 9Certified teachersCompulsory-school pupilsOperator
Broskolan Ö-viks Kristna skola201.667%130Broskolan AB
Bäckagårdsskolan–48%10Impius Vård och Utbildning AB
Gottne Byskola–65%50GOTTNEBYGDENS SAMHÄLLSFÖRENING
Västanåskolan–72%30Västanåskolans Ekonomiska förening

Compulsory schools with a municipal operator (31)

Listed alphabetically — this page does not rank schools.

SchoolMerit score yr 9Certified teachersCompulsory-school pupils
Alneskolan 5-9246.366%300
Alneskolan F-4–83%120
Anundsjöskolan206.375%320
Banafjälskolan–66%40
Bjästaskolan F-9225.687%360
Björnaskolan216.766%140
Domsjöskolan–86%280
Geneskolan225.572%390
Gideåskolan–73%70
Haffstaskolan–80%70
Hemlingskolan–66%30
Husumskolan231.582%300
Hållängetskolan–78%200
Höglandskolan–86%340
Höglidenskolan194.679%330
Idbynskolan–83%80
Järvedskolan–97%80
Köpmanholmenskolan–71%150
Mellanselskolan–52%60
Moskolan–43%40
Mycklingskolan–87%90
Norrflärkeskolan–69%40
Sidensjöskolan–59%70
Själevadskolan F-9230.581%560
Skorpedskolan–59%40
Skärpeskolan–75%200
Sundskolan–82%240
Sörlidenskolan F-6–91%230
Trehörningsjöskolan–68%10
Ängetskolan 4-9218.877%440
Örnsköldskolan–89%100

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