Independent vs municipal compulsory schools in Strängnäs

Strängnäs: 6 independent and 8 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 Strängnäs

The comparison covers 6 compulsory schools with an independent operator and 8 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 schools68
Merit score year 9252.8 pointsmedian 256.1 · range 237–2624 of 4 schools · school year 2025/26217.7 pointsmedian 219.9 · range 201.8–231.33 of 4 schools · school year 2025/261 value withheld for confidentiality
Certified teachers62.4%median 58.2 · range 54.1–75.95 of 6 schools · school year 2025/261 school without a published value77%median 80.9 · range 35.3–99.68 of 8 schools · school year 2025/26
Pupils per teacher14.5median 14.6 · range 13.4–15.45 of 6 schools · school year 2025/261 school without a published value10.8median 11.3 · range 2.6–14.48 of 8 schools · school year 2025/26
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 (6)

Listed alphabetically — this page does not rank schools.

SchoolMerit score yr 9Certified teachersCompulsory-school pupilsOperator
Europaskolan Rogge258.858%500Europaskolan Utbildning AB
Friskolan Asken253.454%330Friskolan Asken Aktiebolag
Friskolan Karlavagnen–66%120FRISKOLAN K-V EKONOMISK FÖRENING
Gripsholmsskolan26257%430Gripsholmsskolan AB
Strängnäs Montessoriskola23776%440Strängnäs Montessoriskola Ekonomisk förening
Vårfruberga friskola–––Europaskolan Vårfruberga AB

Compulsory schools with a municipal operator (8)

Listed alphabetically — this page does not rank schools.

SchoolMerit score yr 9Certified teachersCompulsory-school pupils
Finningeskolan–100%270
Karinslundsskolan–84%100
Mariefreds skola219.985%690
Paulinska skolan231.372%550
Resursskolan i Strängnäs–35%20
Stallarholmsskolan–73%290
Vasaskolan–89%190
Åkerskolan201.878%400

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