Balders-hage Förskola in Östersund

PreschoolOperator: Östersund Municipality · Östersund, Jämtlands County

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BALDERS-HAGE FÖRSKOLA is a small municipal preschool with 49 children.

BALDERS-HAGE FÖRSKOLA is a small municipal preschool with 49 children. The share of staff with pedagogical higher education (45.7%) is above the national average of 43.6%.

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The most important facts in 3 points

  1. Preschool in Östersund with 49 enrolled children.
  2. Preschools are not covered by our inspection sync; check the Inspectorate or municipality if needed.
  3. Applying? Go to the school's application link on this page.

Skolkoll interpretation

BALDERS-HAGE FÖRSKOLA is compared here with 52 other schools with the same school form in Östersund municipality; it has 49 children versus the municipal average of 57.

Share with pedagogical higher education: 45.7%, 4.3 percentage points above the municipal average and 2.1 percentage points above the national average.

Children per staff member is 5.6, 1.0 higher than the municipal average.

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This affects

  • Certified teachers
  • Pupils per teacher
  • Number of pupils
  • This staffing metric is affected by FTE definitions, local reporting practices, and temporary vacancies.
  • 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

  • Preschool

Things to look into

No clear flag.

No clear attention flags from key-figure deviations or the School Inspectorate's public register. Detailed inspection history is shown in the "Safety & Inspection" card below.

Aerial view of the school

Aerial view of Balders-hage Förskola, 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 Östersund, Odensalagatan 58, Östersund

School performance

Staff

45.7%
Share with pedagogical higher education

Municipality: 41.4% · Sweden: 43.6%

45.7% of staff have pedagogical higher education — 2.1 percentage points above the national average.

Share with pedagogical higher education Reliability: High reliability.
45.7%Municipality: 41.4% · Sweden: 43.6%
Children per staff member Reliability: High reliability.
5.6Municipality: 4.6 · Sweden: 5.1
High reliability — Reported directly by the school operator.

Source: Skolverket · Last updated: 5 Jul 2026

School environment

Safety & Inspection

No active cases
Recently inspected

No open remarks from the Schools Inspectorate.

Open remarks Reliability: High reliability.
0
High reliability — Inspection register and Skolenkäten survey.

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

Who runs the school

Operator

ÖSTERSUNDS KOMMUN
Municipal operator

101 other schools in the municipality.

Östersund Municipality
Municipal operator:Östersund MunicipalityÖstersund Municipality · 102 schools in the municipality

ÖSTERSUNDS KOMMUN is the operator. The municipality has 101 other schools.

Operator Reliability: High reliability.
ÖSTERSUNDS KOMMUN
Operating form Reliability: High reliability.
Municipal own operation
Other schools in municipality Reliability: High reliability.
101
High reliability — Current data from Skolverket and Bolagsverket.

Source: Skolverket · Last updated: 5 Jul 2026

Next step: Apply for a place

Apply through Östersund e-service for preschool application.

Contact and address

Visiting address
ODENSALAGATAN 58, 83182 ÖSTERSUND
Postal address
c/o KOMMUNLEDNINGSFÖRVALTNINGEN, 83182 ÖSTERSUND
School unit code
forsk-137588

Source: Skolverket School Unit Register · Pipeline-fetched on 2026-07-05.

Everyday travelAreas that reach the school within 15 minutes.

Reachability from the school
15 min on foot
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Nearest and similar schools

  • ASTERNS FÖRSKOLASame municipality· 73 children
  • BACKENS FÖRSKOLASame municipality· 37 children
  • BIKUPAN FÖRSKOLASame municipality· 71 children

About Östersund municipality

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

Schools
102
Avg. merit (yr 9)
227.3in line
Certified teachers
69%−4 pp
Pupils per teacher
12.1in line

Source: Skolverket (aggregated school statistics).

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In-depth metrics

Staff stability

Declining

66.0% qualified teachers in municipality (2025) ▼ 3.4 pp over 5 years

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

This preschool

Preschool statistics

Key figures for BALDERS-HAGE FÖRSKOLA. Compared to municipal and national averages.

Enrolled children49
Children per FTE5.6municipality: 4.6, national: 5.0
Share with pedagogical higher education45.7%municipality: 41.4%, national: 43.6%

Staff educational background (2025)

Skolverket's mutually exclusive categories for staff in the preschool unit.

CategoryThis preschoolMunicipalityNational
Pedagogical higher educationpreschool teachers and others with a Swedish higher-education degree46%41.4%43.6%
Upper-secondary qualification for work with childrenchildcare assistant training or equivalent34%17.5%15.4%
Some pedagogical trainingfor example parts of a pedagogical education20%
Other educationother education, including foreign qualifications not validated in Sweden0%
Other educational background (combined)comparison row for the two categories that municipal and national statistics publish together20%41.1%40.2%

Of which preschool-teacher degree: 46%

Municipal preschool data for Östersund (2025) (5 metrics)
Children per group16.7national: 15.0
Children/group, ages 1–313.5national: 12.2
Children/group, ages 4–518.8national: 16.1
Share with pedagogical higher education41.4%national: 43.6%
Children per FTE (municipal average)4.6national: 5.0

National average calculated from all 290 municipalities. Municipal data is aggregated and applies to all preschools in Östersund. Source: Skolverket preschool statistics. Updated annually.

Data coverage

What we do not know about Balders-hage Förskola

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  • 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.
  • MissingSupport resources and student healthWe do not yet have a verified national data source for special education, student health, adaptations, language support or contact routes per school.
  • MissingSafety and study environmentWe lack current or displayable survey data about safety and study environment for this school.
  • 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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