Högalidskolan in Kiruna
Headmaster: Carina Lidberg
30
Skolkoll Score 30 out of 100. The scale goes from 0 (lowest) to 100 (highest). 50 is the average. Better than 21% of Sweden’s compulsory schools.below the national midpointShows where a school sits within a comparison group. Percentile 80 means the school ranks above roughly 80 percent of that group.Compared to all compulsory schools nationally
A composite of five open data sources — a starting point, not a grade.
Data coverageHigh4/5
Why this score?
Skolkoll score is Skolkoll's composite indicator based on available data sources. It is not an official quality measure and should be read together with the underlying data.
4 of 5 score dimensions have school-specific data.
When school-specific data is missing for a dimension, the neutral value 50 is used. That does not automatically lower the school, but it makes the score less informative.
Lower results than the pupil intake predictsA statistical model that compares schools’ results with what is expected given the student composition.Read more in glossary →What is value-added?The school's own contribution given its pupil intake (Skolverket's SALSA model) — not a quality guarantee, and not comparable between years.
Högalidskolan is a large municipal compulsory school with 610 pupils.
Högalidskolan is a large municipal compulsory school with 610 pupils. The share of qualified teachers (61%) is below the national average of 72%.
- 610PupilsMunicipality: 2,040High reliability
- 61%Qualified teachersMunicipality: 54% · Sweden: 72%High reliability
- 206.1Year 9 merit valueMunicipality: 223.8 · Sweden: 227.7Moderate reliability
- 12.2Pupils per teacherMunicipality: 10.3 · Sweden: 12.0High reliability
- 189,849 SEKCost per pupil (municipal avg.)Sweden: 144,179 SEKLimited history
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The most important facts in 3 points
- Compulsory school in Kiruna with 610 pupils.
- The latest inspection (2025) has no recorded deficiencies in our data.
- Applying? Go to the school's application link on this page.
Skolkoll interpretation
Högalidskolan is compared here with 13 other schools with the same school form in Kiruna municipality; it has 610 pupils versus the municipal average of 146.
The year-9 merit value is 206.1, 17.7 points below the municipal average and 21.6 points below the national average.
Qualified teachers: 61%, 7 percentage points above the municipal average and 11 percentage points below the national average.
The SALSA residual (-16.0) indicates that outcomes are weaker than the model expects for the pupil composition.
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School programmes
- Compulsory school
Things to look into
Worth looking into. These indicators are an attention aid, not a quality grade or risk score.
- 61% qualified teachers — more than 10 percentage points below the national average (72%).
- Merit value is 16 points lower than expected given pupil composition (SALSA score: -16.0).
School profile
The school's strengths compared with all primary schools nationally.
- Merit ratingP21
- Certified teachersP17
- Pupil-teacher ratioP46
- Eligibility (upper secondary)P13
Source: Skolverket, Swedish Schools Inspectorate.
Aerial view of the school
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 Kiruna, Börje Salmings gata 25, Kiruna
School performance
Results
206.1Merit value yr 9Sweden: 227.7
Results
206.1
Merit value yr 9
Results are reported by the school operator to Skolverket.
High reliability — Direct data from the school operator.
Staff
61%Qualified teachersMunicipality: 54% · Sweden: 72%
Staff
61%
Qualified teachers
Value-added / SALSA
-16.0SALSA residualModel prediction: 206.0 · Actual outcome: 222.0
Value-added / SALSA
-16.0
SALSA residual
The school performs below what the student composition would predict.
- Model prediction Reliability: Moderate reliability.
- 206.0
- Actual outcome Reliability: Moderate reliability.
- 222.0
Moderate reliability — SALSA models have natural uncertainty for small schools.
School environment
Safety & Inspection
5 openRecently inspected 2025
Safety & Inspection
5 open
Recently inspected 2025
5 open remark(s) from the Schools Inspectorate.
- Latest inspection decision Reliability: High reliability.
- 2025-02-14 — Riktad tillsyn Uppföljning skolbeslut Grundskola Kiruna Högalidskolan 7-9, 2025 (pdf, 65 kB)
- Open remarks Reliability: High reliability.
- 5
High reliability — Inspection register and Skolenkäten survey.
Source: Schools Inspectorate + Skolverket · Last updated: 5 Jul 2026
Resources
189,849 SEKCost per pupil (total)Sweden: 144,179 SEK
Resources
189,849 SEK
Cost per pupil (total)
Cost per pupil is 32% above the national average.
Limited history — Cost data updated annually by Kolada/SCB.
Who runs the school
Operator
KIRUNA KOMMUNMunicipal operator52 other schools in the municipality.
Operator
KIRUNA KOMMUN
Municipal operator
KIRUNA KOMMUN is the operator. The municipality has 52 other schools.
- Operator Reliability: High reliability.
- KIRUNA KOMMUN
- Operating form Reliability: High reliability.
- Municipal own operation
- Other schools in municipality Reliability: High reliability.
- 52
High reliability — Current data from Skolverket and Bolagsverket.
Source: Skolverket · Last updated: 5 Jul 2026
Next step: Apply for a place
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Contact and address
- Headmaster
- Carina Lidberg
- Visiting address
- Börje Salmings gata 23, 98135 Kiruna
- Postal address
- 98185 KIRUNA
- Phone
- 0980-70240
- School unit code
80693905
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
15 min by bike
School
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.
Missing or uncertain support-resource fields
- MissingStudent health teamIs there sourced information about student health functions at the school?
- MissingSpecial educatorIs special-education competence reported separately?
- MissingSpecial needs teacherAre special needs teachers reported separately?
- MissingSpecial education competenceIs there a verifiable aggregate metric for special education teachers?
- 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.
Nearest and similar schools
- Sjöparksskolan83 km away· 410 pupils
- Nya Raketskolan 7-93 km away· 200 pupils
- Vargen1 km away· 150 pupils
About Kiruna municipality
School-form averages across the municipality, with links to deep-dive sub-pages.
- Schools
- 53
- Avg. merit (yr 9)
- 223.8−3.9
- Certified teachers
- 57%−17 pp
- Pupils per teacher
- 10.1−1.9
Source: Skolverket (aggregated school statistics).
Similar schools
The 5 most-similar compulsory schools based on student count, geography, teacher certification and pupil composition.
Grade distribution
Share of pupils per grade, school year 2024/25.
0.0Grades close to national-test results — no clear inflation signal.
Source: SIRIS/Skolverket · See full A–F distribution in the data view →
School survey perspectives
Pupils, guardians and staff — same school, different answers
Survey results broken down by respondent group on a 0–10 scale. Groups can experience the same school very differently — notable gaps are highlighted below.
PupilsGuardians
Text summary of the chart:
- Pupils: Safety too few responses, Study environment too few responses, Stimulation too few responses, Support too few responses, Anti-bullying too few responses.
- Guardians: Safety too few responses, Study environment too few responses, Stimulation too few responses, Support too few responses.
Results with fewer than 5 responses are shown as “too few responses”.
Automatically flagged gaps
At least one respondent group has too few responses on the overlapping measures, so gaps cannot be calculated.
Staff results are not published per school by Skolinspektionen today, so the staff view appears only when available.
SALSA result
−16.0A statistical model that compares schools’ results with what is expected given the student composition.Read more in glossary →Performs below expectationsThe residual is actual minus expected merit value; positive means the school lifts pupils more than the model predicts.
How should SALSA be read?
SALSA is a statistical comparison metric, not a school rating. Small cohorts and individual year groups can create uncertain signals, so read it together with pupil counts, survey data and other sources.
Source: Skolverket/SALSA · See the full comparison table →
Pupils per year
Number of pupils per year group (total 607 pupils). Latest available year from Skolverket (SIRIS).
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In-depth metrics
Staff stability
Declining
Source: Kolada (municipality-aggregated certified teacher trend).
Throughput year 6 → year 9
51.0% → 56.9%
- 114 pupils yr 6
- 111 pupils yr 9
Source: Skolverket SIRIS + Skolverket Statistical Database.
School meals
Weekly menus and meal provider for this school's municipality.
No menu provider registered for this municipality yet.
Source: municipality's own meal portal — Skolkoll does not host menu content.
Inspections & decisions
Source: Skolinspektionen tillsynsregister (open data). Updated when new decisions are published. · See all decisions and review types in the data view → · Check current status at the Schools Inspectorate ↗
Explore further
More context about Högalidskolan, its municipality, operator and similar schools.
Compulsory schools in KirunaSee all compulsory schools in the municipality with results and comparisons.Schools in KirunaOpen the municipality page with all schools, rankings, and local aggregates.Kiruna kommunSee all schools, municipalities, and core metrics for the same provider.Norrbottens länCompare municipalities and school patterns across the whole county.Merit value year 9Compare year-9 merit values across municipalities and school environments.Certification vs Merit valueSee how merit values and upper-secondary eligibility move together.Compare schoolsBuild a side-by-side comparison with the schools you care about.
Data coverage
What we do not know about Högalidskolan
Open school data is not complete. Use this as a checklist for what to verify with the school, provider or municipality.
- HighResults and score inputsHigh data coverage: 4 of 5 score dimensions have school-specific data. When school-specific data is missing for a dimension, the neutral value 50 is used. That does not automatically lower the school, but it makes the score less informative.
- HighEligibility and goal attainmentGrades, eligibility and goal-attainment data may be missing, suppressed or available only for some grades and school types.
- PartialResources, 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.
- 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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