← Back to the rankingDibber International School Sollentuna
Sollentuna, Sweden · Private
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Dibber International School Sollentuna (DISS) is a private bilingual compulsory school from the preschool class to year 9 in Sollentuna, by Lake Norrviken, 750 metres from Norrviken commuter train station. The school follows the Swedish Lgr22 curriculum and is an authorised IB World School for the Primary Years Programme and the Middle Years Programme. Lessons are in Swedish and English: in the younger years English is introduced gradually, and from year 4 up to half of lessons may be in English; Swedish remains the basis of school life. Children who grew up in Sollentuna study alongside children with experience of other countries. The school mentions small classes, extended arts subjects and digital skills. The principal is from Sydney and has worked in Sweden since 2000.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · PYP, MYP · National programme
Languages of instruction
Swedish, English
Class size
small classes, the school gives no exact number
About the fees The school is a fristående skola (an independent school funded by municipal skolpeng), so under Swedish law tuition is free; the website states no tuition fee. After-school care is charged under municipal rules.
Admissions Children can be placed in the 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 holds open days (11 November, 2 December and 20 January, 18:30-19:30) and invites families to visits. The school's website does not state selection criteria when places are short. The school's English page speaks directly to families moving to Sweden: the bilingual environment helps children get used to the Swedish language, school routines and traditions; children of different nationalities attend.
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 the IB: the school is an authorised IB World School for the Primary Years Programme and the Middle Years Programme. Bilingual teaching: in the preschool class to year 3 English is introduced gradually, and from year 4 up to half of lessons may be in English. The school's website does not name foreign languages taught as subjects.
Address Lindvägen 16, 192 70 Sollentuna
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · PYP, MYP · authorised programmeThe school is listed in the IB register and runs the Primary Years and Middle Years programmes. The IB programmes run together with the Swedish compulsory-school curriculum.
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), MYP (ages 11-16). 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. MYP is the middle stage, ages 11 to 16. There are no exams here either; at the end an optional electronic assessment of pupils' work is possible.
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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
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
·Number of teachersthe school does not say
✓Students per teacher or class sizein the key facts above
The school says teachers know every student in its small classes; there is a deputy principal and PYP coordinator (preschool class to year 5) and a careers adviser. It does not publish staff numbers or qualifications.
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
The student health team works with teachers for a safe and respectful environment. Values work is based on the group's Hjärtekultur programme: self-worth, empathy, inclusion.
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 data55 "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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