Independent vs municipal compulsory schools in Umeå

Umeå: 7 independent and 56 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 Umeå

The comparison covers 7 compulsory schools with an independent operator and 56 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	56
Merit score year 9	236 pointsmedian 244.4 · range 183.3–260.85 of 5 schools · school year 2025/26the values come from 2 different school years	221.1 pointsmedian 224.3 · range 168.7–247.615 of 16 schools · school year 2025/261 school without a published value · the values come from 2 different school years
Certified teachers	71.1%median 71.1 · range 55.8–84.15 of 7 schools · school year 2025/262 schools without a published value · the values come from 2 different school years	81.3%median 81.7 · range 30.7–93.456 of 56 schools · school year 2025/26the values come from 2 different school years
Pupils per teacher	12.6median 12.6 · range 8.9–15.17 of 7 schools · school year 2025/26the values come from 2 different school years	12.4median 12.9 · range 1.4–19.656 of 56 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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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 Umeå	260.8	–	420	Internationella Engelska Skolan i Sverige AB
Mariaskolan	183.3	56%	60	UMEÅ KRISTNA FRISKOLEFÖRENING
Minervaskolan	238.6	71%	610	MINERVASKOLAN I UMEÅ AB
Prolympia Umeå	253	84%	330	ULNO AB
Språkskolan	–	71%	180	SPRÅKSKOLAN I UMEÅ EK. FÖR.
Umeå Montessoriskola	–	74%	70	Umeå montessoriskola ek. för.
Umeå Waldorfskola, gr	244.4	–	210	STIFTELSEN UMEÅ WALDORFSKOLA R KARLSSON MFL

Compulsory schools with a municipal operator (56)

Listed alphabetically — this page does not rank schools.

School	Merit score yr 9	Certified teachers	Compulsory-school pupils
Backens skola	–	93%	220
Berghemsskolan	–	75%	230
Björkenskolan	–	31%	10
Botsmarks skola	–	77%	10
Brännlands skola	–	88%	40
Bräntbergsskolan	227.2	85%	100
Bräntbergsskolan AST	168.7	89%	30
Bullmarks skola	–	71%	60
Böleängsskolan 1	–	84%	350
Carlshöjdsskolan F-6	–	80%	280
Carlslundsskolan 7-9	247.6	93%	490
Ersdungens skola	–	80%	200
Ersmarks skola	–	85%	150
Ersängsskolan 7-9	201.3	83%	140
Ersängsskolan F-6	–	74%	200
Flurkmarks skola	–	80%	70
Grisbacka skola F-6	–	82%	390
Grubbeskolan 7-9	239.9	93%	490
Hagaskolan F-9	217.9	85%	520
Hedlundaskolan	–	91%	150
Hissjö skola	–	73%	100
Hörnefors Centralskola F-9	233.1	83%	390
Innertavle skola	–	91%	90
Kasamarks skola	–	84%	140
Linblommans skola	–	76%	130
Linneaskolan	199.5	69%	110
Maja Beskowskolan	217	87%	490
Mariebergsskolan 1	–	87%	270
Mariehemsskolan	–	67%	190
Obbola skola	243.9	82%	310
Röbäcks skola	–	90%	140
Rödåsels skola	–	65%	30
Rödängsskolan	–	79%	70
Sandalidens skola	–	89%	120
Sjöfruskolan F-6	–	76%	490
Skärgårdsskolan	–	89%	260
Sofiehemsskolan	–	82%	120
Storsjöskolan 1	–	80%	250
Storsjöskolan 2	225.3	89%	280
Stöcke skola	–	82%	170
Stöcksjö skola	–	80%	100
Sävar skola 7-9	211.9	75%	230
Sävar skola F-6	–	90%	390
Södra Ålidhemsskolan 6-9	222.1	87%	220
Södra Ålidhemsskolan F-5	–	75%	130
Sörfors skola	–	77%	90
Sörmjöle skola	–	93%	70
Tavelsjö skola	–	77%	130
Tegs centralskola	236.5	77%	440
Tomtebogårds skola	–	87%	180
Täfteå skola	–	81%	160
Västangårds skola F-9	224.3	79%	410
Östermalmsskolan	–	77%	220
Östra Ersbodaskolan	–	91%	70
Östtegs skola	–	83%	260
Överboda skola	–	91%	10

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