Ankarskolan in Varberg

Compulsory schoolYear 1–3Operator: Varberg Municipality · Varberg, Hallands County

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Ankarskolan is a medium-sized municipal compulsory school with 160 pupils.

Ankarskolan is a medium-sized municipal compulsory school with 160 pupils. The share of qualified teachers (93%) is above the national average of 72%. Skolverket: unweighted school-unit mean, compulsory schools with published data; latest available value per school.

Pupils
160High reliability
Municipality: 2,220
Qualified teachers
93%High reliability
Municipality: 74% · Sweden: 72% (Skolverket: unweighted school-unit mean, compulsory schools with published data; latest available value per school)
Pupils per teacher
15.4High reliability
Municipality: 10.8 · Sweden: 11.9
Cost per pupil (municipal avg.)
132,984 SEKLimited history
Sweden: 144,800 SEK
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The most important facts in 3 points

  1. Compulsory school in Varberg with 160 pupils.
  2. The latest record (2014) is a review or decision without risk classification.
  3. The school is not active in Skolverket's register; check status before choosing.

Skolkoll interpretation

Ankarskolan is compared here with 25 other schools with the same school form in Varberg municipality; it has 160 pupils versus the municipal average of 148.

Qualified teachers: 93%, 19 percentage points above the municipal average and 21 percentage points above the national average. Skolverket: unweighted school-unit mean, compulsory schools with published data; latest available value per school.

Pupils per teacher is 15.4, 4.6 higher than the municipal average.

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4 values has limited history

This applies only to the values listed here.

There is still too little history to interpret the trend safely.

This affects

  • Anti-bullying year 8
  • Cost per student
  • Safety year 8
  • Number of pupils
  • The school survey relies on voluntary responses and results can vary substantially between years for small samples.
  • Costs are affected by accounting practices, rent levels, and service mix, and should mainly be compared across similar school types.
  • Pupil counts may be privacy-suppressed for small units and are not always updated on the same cadence as other indicators.

Other values here do not have this specific note.

School programmes

  • Compulsory school

Things to look into

Worth looking into. These indicators are an attention aid, not a quality grade or risk score.

  • 15.4 pupils per teacher — more than 3 above the national average (11.9).

Aerial view of the school

Aerial view of Ankarskolan, orthophoto from Lantmäteriet

The school's property boundary and buildings from the Swedish Land Survey's property register. Updated 2026. Source: Lantmäteriet · CC BY 4.0

Entrances:1 Varberg, Ankarvägen 6, Träslövsläge

School performance

Staff

93%
Qualified teachers

Municipality: 74% · Sweden: 72% · Skolverket: unweighted school-unit mean, compulsory schools with published data; latest available value per school

93% certified teachers — 21 percentage points above the national average.

Qualified teachers Reliability: High reliability.
93%From 89% (2425) to 93% (2526)Municipality: 74% · Sweden: 72% · Skolverket: unweighted school-unit mean, compulsory schools with published data; latest available value per school
Pupils per teacher Reliability: High reliability.
15.4From 14.8 (2425) to 15.4 (2526)Municipality: 10.8 · Sweden: 11.9
High reliability — Reported directly by the school operator.

Source: Skolverket · Last updated: 6 Oct 2026

School environment

Safety & Inspection

No classified deficiencies
Latest inspection in our data: 2014

We could not classify the outcome of the school's 3 inspection document(s); read the decisions. Latest document: 2014. Our inspection data is incomplete: it mainly covers regular and targeted inspections, and most quality reviews are still missing.

Latest inspection document Reliability: High reliability.
2014 — Regelb. tillsyn Uppföljning beslut Varberg Ankarskolan F-3 och fritidshem, 2014 (pdf, 1381 kB)
Recorded decisions with deficiencies Reliability: High reliability.
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School Survey — all perspectives

DimensionPupils (åk 8)GuardianStaff
Safety7.6 / 10——
Study environment5.6 / 10——
Anti-bullying5.0 / 10——
Stimulation5.1 / 10——
Support6.2 / 10——

Scale 0–10 (rescaled from Skolverket's 0–100). Guardian and staff perspectives are often not in open data.

High reliability — Inspection register and Skolenkäten survey.

Source: Schools Inspectorate + Skolverket · Last updated: 5 Oct 2026

Resources

132,984 SEK
Cost per pupil (total)

Sweden: 144,800 SEK

Cost per pupil is 8% below the national average.

Cost per pupil (total) Reliability: Limited history.
132,984 SEKSweden: 144,800 SEK
Teaching Reliability: Moderate reliability.
75,500 SEK
Facilities Reliability: Moderate reliability.
18,000 SEK
Limited history — Cost data updated annually by Kolada/SCB.

Source: SCB & Kolada · Last updated: 1 Oct 2026

Who runs the school

Operator

VARBERGS KOMMUN
Municipal operator

94 other schools in the municipality.

Varberg Municipality
Municipal operator:Varberg MunicipalityVarberg Municipality · 94 schools in the municipality

VARBERGS KOMMUN is the operator. The municipality has 94 other schools.

Operator Reliability: High reliability.
VARBERGS KOMMUN
Operating form Reliability: High reliability.
Municipal own operation
Other schools in municipality Reliability: High reliability.
94
High reliability — Current data from Skolverket and Bolagsverket.

Source: Skolverket · Last updated: 6 Oct 2026

Contact and address

Visiting address
Ankarvägen 6, 43274 Träslövsläge
Postal address
43280 VARBERG
School unit code
38621807

Source: Skolverket School Unit Register · Pipeline-fetched on 2026-10-06.

Everyday travelAreas that reach the school within 15 minutes.

Reachability from the school
15 min on foot
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Support and inclusion

Support and student health

This panel shows sourced support-resource data where available and marks the rest as missing or uncertain. These fields do not affect score or ranking.

SourcedSpecial education competence54% qualified special needs teachers/special educatorsThe source reports an aggregate staffing metric. It is not used in support-needs scoring or ranking.Source: Skolverket Statistikdatabasen · 2026-06-21
SourcedCounsellor1,706 pupils per counsellorThe resource metric is statistical and should be read together with the school's own processes and contact routes.Source: Skolverket Statistikdatabasen · 2026-06-21
Missing or uncertain support-resource fields
  • MissingStudent health teamIs there sourced information about student health functions at the school?
  • PartialSpecial educatorThe source does not split special educators and special needs teachers per school unit in this model.
  • PartialSpecial needs teacherThe source does not split special educators and special needs teachers per school unit in this model.
  • MissingSchool nurseIs there sourced information about school nurse resources?
  • MissingPsychologistIs there sourced information about psychologist resources?
  • MissingStudy and career guidanceIs there sourced information about study and career guidance?
  • MissingLanguage supportIs there sourced information about language or mother-tongue support?
  • MissingAdaptations and special supportIs there verified process information for adaptations and special support?
  • MissingAccessibilityIs there sourced information about physical or pedagogical accessibility?
  • MissingContact routeIs there a verified contact route for support questions?

Privacy rule: no individual pupil health, diagnosis, support decision or personal case data may be stored.

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Nearest and similar schools

About Varberg municipality

School-form averages across the municipality, with links to deep-dive sub-pages.

Schools
94
Avg. merit (yr 9)
229.8+2.2
Certified teachers
75%in line
Pupils per teacher
10.4−1.5

Source: Skolverket (aggregated school statistics).

Similar schools

The 5 most-similar compulsory schools based on student count, geography, teacher certification and pupil composition.

Pupils per year

Number of pupils per year group (total 157 pupils). Latest available year from Skolverket (SIRIS).

Yr 150 pupils in Yr 1
Yr 245 pupils in Yr 2
Yr 362 pupils in Yr 3

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In-depth metrics

Staff stability

Declining

76.9% qualified teachers in municipality (2025) ▼ 2.6 pp over 5 years

Source: Kolada (municipality-aggregated certified teacher trend).

Throughput year 6 → year 9

71.6% → 73.8%

▲ 2.2 pp improvement year 6 → year 9

Source: Skolverket SIRIS + Skolverket Statistical Database.

Safety and study environment (SkolenkätenThe Schools Inspectorate’s survey sent to pupils, parents, and staff about safety, classroom order, and teaching.Read more in glossary →)

The school survey shows pupil experience where responses are available. Read values together with year, response coverage and unknowns.

Coverage: 2 displayed year groups · year 2026.

Strongest (Year 5)

  • Safety: 80 (national 82)
  • Support: 72 (national 74)

Weakest (Year 5)

  • Study environment: 56 (national 57)
  • Stimulation: 64 (national 66)

Source: Skolinspektionen Skolenkäten 2026. Updated annually. · See all years and dimensions in the data view →

Inspections & decisions

We have 3 inspection documents from the Schools Inspectorate for the school. We have not classified the outcome; read the decisions. Most recent: 2014.

Source: Schools Inspectorate decisions via Skolverket's document archive (SIRIS). Our inspection data is incomplete: it mainly covers regular and targeted inspections, and most quality reviews are still missing. · See all decisions and review types in the data view → · Search all decisions and reviews at the Schools Inspectorate (in Swedish) ↗

Data coverage

What we do not know about Ankarskolan

Open school data is not complete. Use this as a checklist for what to verify with the school, provider or municipality.

  • MissingResults and score inputsSkolkoll score is not shown for this school type or lacks enough underlying data.
  • MissingEligibility and goal attainmentGrades, eligibility and goal-attainment data may be missing, suppressed or available only for some grades and school types.
  • UncertainResources, teachers and staffTeacher and resource metrics do not always show subject mix, vacancies, student-health workflows or everyday staffing.
  • PartialSupport resources and student healthSome support-resource fields have sourced statistics, but several parts are still missing or reported only in aggregate.
  • PartialSafety and study environmentThe school survey is shown where available, but not every grade and perspective is always covered.
  • UncertainAdmissions, placement and important datesMunicipal placement rules, queues and important dates require a local source and should be checked with the municipality or school.
  • MissingVisits, facilities and everyday environmentWe lack sourced open-house information for this school. Facilities, accessibility and everyday environment are often not open comparable data.

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