Independent vs municipal compulsory schools in Uppsala
Uppsala: 19 independent and 57 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 Uppsala
The comparison covers 19 compulsory schools with an independent operator and 57 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.
1 school unit running both compulsory and upper-secondary education is excluded, because its teacher and pupil figures cannot be separated by school form.
Key figures side by side
| Metric | Independent operator | Municipal operator |
|---|---|---|
| Number of compulsory schools | 19 | 57 |
| Merit score year 9 | 247.2 points | 239.5 points |
| Certified teachers | 76.1% | 78.8% |
| Pupils per teacher | 14.1 | 14.2 |
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
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
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
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 (19)
Listed alphabetically — this page does not rank schools.
| School | Merit score yr 9 | Certified teachers | Compulsory-school pupils | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ansgarskolorna Fridhemsskolan F-6 | – | 82% | 120 | Ansgarskolorna AB |
| Ansgarskolorna Kyrkskolan 7-9 | 232.3 | 76% | 220 | Ansgarskolorna AB |
| Ansgarskolorna Källskolan F-6 | – | 55% | 100 | Ansgarskolorna AB |
| Ansgarskolorna Trädgårdsskolan F-6 | – | 65% | 150 | Ansgarskolorna AB |
| Gluntens Montessoriskola | 240 | 82% | 450 | Gluntens Montessoriskola AB |
| Hagmarkens skola | – | 76% | 60 | Hagmarkens Förskola/Skola AB |
| Internationella Engelska Skolan Uppsala | 268.2 | – | 750 | Internationella Engelska Skolan i Sverige AB |
| JENSEN grundskola Uppsala | – | 90% | 80 | JENSEN EDUCATION COLLEGE AB |
| JENSEN grundskola Uppsala 2 | 266.1 | 67% | 200 | JENSEN EDUCATION COLLEGE AB |
| Katarinaskolan | 265 | 82% | 420 | HELIGA KATARINAS SKOLSTIFTELSE |
| Kunskapsskolan Uppsala | 281.9 | 79% | 620 | Kunskapsskolan i Sverige Aktiebolag |
| Kunskapsskolan Uppsala Norra | 262.4 | 84% | 270 | Kunskapsskolan i Sverige Aktiebolag |
| Magelungens Grundskola Uppsala | 96.7 | 57% | 40 | Magelungen Utveckling AB |
| Musiklådan | – | 72% | 100 | FÖRÄLDRAFÖRENINGEN VID MUSIKLÅDAN |
| Raoul Wallenbergskolan Uppsala | 254.9 | – | 260 | Raoul Wallenbergskolorna AB |
| Uppsala Enskilda Skola | – | 74% | 210 | STIFTELSEN LITEN LÄR |
| Uppsala Montessoriskola | – | 96% | 60 | UPPSALA MONTESSORISKOLA AB |
| Uppsala Musikklasser | 297.2 | 81% | 520 | STIFTELSEN UPPSALA MUSIKKLASSER |
| Uppsala waldorfskola | 254.6 | – | 140 | STIFTELSEN UPPSALA WALDORFSKOLA |
Compulsory schools with a municipal operator (57)
Listed alphabetically — this page does not rank schools.
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Source: Skolverket. The school year is stated per metric in the table, because the metrics are collected at different times.