← Back to the rankingDibber International School Helsingborg
Rydeback, Sweden · Private
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Dibber International School Helsingborg (DISH) is a private bilingual compulsory school from the preschool class to year 9 in Rydebäck, south of Helsingborg, near the station and a stone's throw from the sea. The school combines the Swedish Lgr22 curriculum with IB pedagogy and is authorised as a Primary Years Programme school; it is a candidate for the Middle Years Programme. Lessons are in Swedish and English, with no more than half in English under Swedish law; English is introduced gradually, and Swedish gets equal attention in all subjects. The school's pillars are IB, bilingualism, academic and arts subjects, and technology and innovation: every student has a Chromebook, younger children work on iPads, and each has a digital portfolio. The school runs an extended music programme: all children learn to play cello or violin.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · PYP · National programme
Languages of instruction
Swedish, English
Languages taught
Spanish, French
Students
about 135 children aged 6-12 (according to the school's announcement of its PYP authorisation)
About the fees The school is a fristående skola (an independent school funded by municipal skolpeng), and under Swedish law tuition is free. After-school care is charged under municipal rules.
Admissions Children can be placed in the school queue all year through the group's general online form: choose the school and year, give the child's and guardians' details with registered address. The school invites families to a personal visit and explains how the start in the preschool class works. The school's website does not state selection criteria when places are short.
Stages and year groups Grades F-9. The Swedish compulsory grundskola on the Lgr22 curriculum from the preschool class (F) to year 9, combined with IB pedagogy: the school is authorised for the Primary Years Programme (preschool class to year 5) and is a candidate for the Middle Years Programme (years 7-9). From year 6 students can choose Spanish or French. An extended arts programme: all students play cello or violin, sing and play in an ensemble.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · PYP · authorised programmeThe school is listed in the IB register and runs the Primary Years Programme. The PYP runs together with the Swedish compulsory-school curriculum; for the MYP the school is a candidate.
school is in an official registryconfirmed by a school document, by membership or by taking part in a networkclaimed by the school, no confirmation, not counted in the scoreGuide to all organisations → What stands behind each entry
IBInternational Baccalaureate
A Swiss non-profit, working since 1968. Its programmes are among the most widely recognised school programmes in the world. Authorisation is granted stage by stage, so a school with the final stage does not necessarily run the younger ones; which stages this school holds is set out in the line below.
What the badge means for this school. The school is allowed to run this programme and to award its certificate. This is a confirmation of the programme, not a judgement on the school as a whole. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it. At this school: PYP (ages 3-12). PYP is the primary stage, ages 3 to 12. It is not a set of subjects but a frame for the whole school: learning is built around lines of inquiry, and there are no exams at the end.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →National programme
The state school programme of the country the school stands in: it is set by that country's ministry of education, which also licenses the school and awards the leaving certificate. That certificate is used for entry to local universities, and abroad it is matched to the local one.
What this means for this school. This entry does not count towards the score, and that is deliberate. Every lawful school in a country works to the national programme, so on its own it tells one school apart from no other - unlike the French, German or Russian programmes, which are carried abroad and confirmed by the register of their organisation. We show it because a parent needs to know what programme their child is taught and what certificate the child will get. Counting it would lift the whole ranking at once and still tell nobody apart.
Exams and destinations from the school's official website
The school publishes nothing about where its leavers go: no share going on to university, no exam results, no list of universities.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
·Sports hallnot stated on the website
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
·Librarynot stated on the website
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Clubs and activities: Cello · Fiol (violin) · Ensemble · Sång (singing)
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
✓Teacher qualifications
·Number of teachersthe school does not say
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
What the listings show: bilingual teachers with teaching certification
The school describes its teachers as bilingual and certified (behöriga); there is a music teacher and after-school care staff. It does not publish staff numbers or class sizes.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
·CCTVnot stated on the website
·Security staffnot stated on the website
·Access controlnot stated on the website
·Nurse or medical roomnot stated on the website
·Counsellornot stated on the website
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policy
Values work is based on the group's Hjärtekultur programme: self-worth, empathy, inclusion and trusting relationships; the group says its schools work on health promotion and prevention.
Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)72 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data55 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data60 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data60 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data70 "Scored on disclosed data" stands where we count only what the school has written about itself on its own site: exams and destinations, safety and wellbeing, teaching staff, facilities, clubs and activities. A low score here means the school does not write about this, not that the school does not have it: a school with good security and a sparse site will score low. A school can fill in its profile, and the score will be counted again.
The score is counted from 8 of the 9 criteria.Only those with checkable data count: programmes and accreditations from official registers, the fee from a published price list. Where it says "scored on the median", the school has no data and the middle of the list is put in its place, so that a gap gives no advantage. Admissions, teaching staff and reviews come in as their data arrives.
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