Österåsen Förskola in Mariestad

PreschoolOperator: Mariestad Municipality · Mariestad, Västra Götalands County

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ÖSTERÅSEN FÖRSKOLA is a medium-sized municipal preschool with 100 children.

ÖSTERÅSEN FÖRSKOLA is a medium-sized municipal preschool with 100 children. The share of staff with pedagogical higher education (68.0%) is above the national average of 43.6%.

Next steps

The most important facts in 3 points

  1. Preschool in Mariestad with 100 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

ÖSTERÅSEN FÖRSKOLA is compared here with 16 other schools with the same school form in Mariestad municipality; it has 100 children versus the municipal average of 60.

Share with pedagogical higher education: 68.0%, 0.7 percentage points above the municipal average and 24.4 percentage points above the national average.

Children per staff member is 5.2, 0.1 lower 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 Österåsen Förskola, orthophoto from Lantmäteriet

Aerial view of the school's surroundings. The property is marked from the register; building use has not been verified. Updated 2026. Source: Lantmäteriet · CC BY 4.0

Entrances:1 Mariestad, Madlyckevägen 18, Mariestad

School performance

Staff

68.0%
Share with pedagogical higher education

Municipality: 67.3% · Sweden: 43.6%

68.0% of staff have pedagogical higher education — 24.4 percentage points above the national average.

Share with pedagogical higher education Reliability: High reliability.
68.0%Municipality: 67.3% · Sweden: 43.6%
Children per staff member Reliability: High reliability.
5.2Municipality: 5.3 · 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

MARIESTADS KOMMUN
Municipal operator

39 other schools in the municipality.

Mariestad Municipality
Municipal operator:Mariestad MunicipalityMariestad Municipality · 40 schools in the municipality

MARIESTADS KOMMUN is the operator. The municipality has 39 other schools.

Operator Reliability: High reliability.
MARIESTADS KOMMUN
Operating form Reliability: High reliability.
Municipal own operation
Other schools in municipality Reliability: High reliability.
39
High reliability — Current data from Skolverket and Bolagsverket.

Source: Skolverket · Last updated: 5 Jul 2026

Next step: Apply for a place

Apply through Mariestad e-service for preschool application.

Contact and address

Visiting address
MADLYCKEVÄGEN 18, 54231 MARIESTAD
Postal address
54286 MARIESTAD
School unit code
forsk-534142

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

  • FLUGSVAMPENSame municipality
  • HASSELBACKENSame municipality· 66 children
  • HASSLERÖRS FÖRSKOLASame municipality· 21 children

About Mariestad municipality

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

Schools
40
Avg. merit (yr 9)
206.3−21.4
Certified teachers
68%−6 pp
Pupils per teacher
11.4−0.6

Source: Skolverket (aggregated school statistics).

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In-depth metrics

Staff stability

Declining

65.7% qualified teachers in municipality (2025) ▼ 7.0 pp over 5 years

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

This preschool

Preschool statistics

Key figures for ÖSTERÅSEN FÖRSKOLA. Compared to municipal and national averages.

Enrolled children100
Children per FTE5.2municipality: 5.3, national: 5.0
Share with pedagogical higher education68.0%municipality: 67.3%, 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 degree68%67.3%43.6%
Upper-secondary qualification for work with childrenchildcare assistant training or equivalent10%13.1%15.4%
Some pedagogical trainingfor example parts of a pedagogical education5%
Other educationother education, including foreign qualifications not validated in Sweden17%
Other educational background (combined)comparison row for the two categories that municipal and national statistics publish together22%19.6%40.2%

Of which preschool-teacher degree: 63%

Municipal preschool data for Mariestad (2025) (5 metrics)
Children per group14.6national: 15.0
Children/group, ages 1–313.0national: 12.2
Children/group, ages 4–515.7national: 16.1
Share with pedagogical higher education67.3%national: 43.6%
Children per FTE (municipal average)5.3national: 5.0

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

Data coverage

What we do not know about Österåsen 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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