Förskolan Backa in Katrineholm

PreschoolOperator: Katrineholm Municipality · Katrineholm, Södermanlands County

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FÖRSKOLAN BACKA is a small municipal preschool with 53 children.

FÖRSKOLAN BACKA is a small municipal preschool with 53 children. The share of staff with pedagogical higher education (43.8%) is above the national average of 43.6%.

Next steps

The most important facts in 3 points

  1. Preschool in Katrineholm with 53 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

FÖRSKOLAN BACKA is compared here with 22 other schools with the same school form in Katrineholm municipality; it has 53 children versus the municipal average of 64.

Share with pedagogical higher education: 43.8%, 8.6 percentage points below the municipal average and 0.2 percentage points above the national average.

Children per staff member is 4.6, 0.5 lower than the municipal average.

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

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 Förskolan Backa, 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 Katrineholm, Vasavägen 70, Katrineholm

School performance

Staff

43.8%
Share with pedagogical higher education

Municipality: 52.4% · Sweden: 43.6%

43.8% of staff have pedagogical higher education — 0.2 percentage points above the national average.

Share with pedagogical higher education Reliability: High reliability.
43.8%Municipality: 52.4% · Sweden: 43.6%
Children per staff member Reliability: High reliability.
4.6Municipality: 5.1 · 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

KATRINEHOLMS KOMMUN
Municipal operator

44 other schools in the municipality.

Katrineholm Municipality
Municipal operator:Katrineholm MunicipalityKatrineholm Municipality · 45 schools in the municipality

KATRINEHOLMS KOMMUN is the operator. The municipality has 44 other schools.

Operator Reliability: High reliability.
KATRINEHOLMS KOMMUN
Operating form Reliability: High reliability.
Municipal own operation
Other schools in municipality Reliability: High reliability.
44
High reliability — Current data from Skolverket and Bolagsverket.

Source: Skolverket · Last updated: 5 Jul 2026

Next step: Apply for a place

Apply through Katrineholm e-service for preschool application.

Contact and address

Visiting address
VASAVÄGEN 70, 64137 KATRINEHOLM
Postal address
64180 KATRINEHOLM
School unit code
forsk-139278

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

  • FÖRSKOLAN ASPLUNDENSame municipality· 31 children
  • FÖRSKOLAN BERGUVENSame municipality· 70 children
  • FÖRSKOLAN BIESame municipality· 55 children

About Katrineholm municipality

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

Schools
45
Avg. merit (yr 9)
225.5−2.2
Certified teachers
69%−4 pp
Pupils per teacher
12.5+0.5

Source: Skolverket (aggregated school statistics).

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In-depth metrics

Staff stability

Improving

69.5% qualified teachers in municipality (2025) ▲ +7.3 pp over 5 years

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

This preschool

Preschool statistics

Key figures for FÖRSKOLAN BACKA. Compared to municipal and national averages.

Enrolled children53
Children per FTE4.6municipality: 5.1, national: 5.0
Share with pedagogical higher education43.8%municipality: 52.4%, 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 degree44%52.4%43.6%
Upper-secondary qualification for work with childrenchildcare assistant training or equivalent0%13.4%15.4%
Some pedagogical trainingfor example parts of a pedagogical education35%
Other educationother education, including foreign qualifications not validated in Sweden21%
Other educational background (combined)comparison row for the two categories that municipal and national statistics publish together56%34.2%40.2%

Of which preschool-teacher degree: 35%

Municipal preschool data for Katrineholm (2025) (5 metrics)
Children per group16.7national: 15.0
Children/group, ages 1–314.6national: 12.2
Children/group, ages 4–518.8national: 16.1
Share with pedagogical higher education52.4%national: 43.6%
Children per FTE (municipal average)5.1national: 5.0

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

Data coverage

What we do not know about Förskolan Backa

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.
  • 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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