Hedemølle Efterskole is a Christian efterskole, a boarding school, a few kilometres north of Bjerringbro in Viborg municipality, in the middle of Jutland, on the site of an old water mill. It was founded and is run by Evangelisk Luthersk Missionsforening (ELM), a mission society within the Danish national church: days begin and end with devotions, there are prayers before meals and worship evenings; students do not have to be believers. About 100 students in grades 8, 9 and 10 attend; grades 8 and 9 are taught together. Students prepare for the Danish grade 9 and 10 exams (with end-of-year exams in grade 8) and add to their timetable from a long list of electives: sport (especially volleyball, with teams competing at the Danish championships), music and bands, creative workshops, go-karting, a motor and metal workshop, FIRST LEGO League and the Cambridge IGCSE English subject. During the year the school stages a big musical, and students go skiing in Hafjell, Norway, and on a trip to a European city; both trips are included in the fee.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE · National programme
Languages of instruction
Danish
Languages taught
English, German
About the fees An efterskole charges one weekly fee for teaching, accommodation, meals and both trips abroad (skiing and the European trip); there are no extra bills for trips. In 2026-2027 the fee is 2845 DKK per week, in 2025-2026 it was 2745 DKK; the school does not state the number of weeks per year. State support based on household income two years earlier is deducted, and the school also has a student support fund.
Admissions Registration is online for the chosen school year and grade; the form requires the student's Danish CPR number, details of the parents and of the previous school. The school recommends visiting first on a tour or on Efterskolernes Dag. Students do not have to be Christian, but should understand that Christianity and talk about faith are part of school life. Every year students from the Faroe Islands attend: they move their registration to Viborg municipality and receive a Danish CPR number after starting, and the school helps with transport to Billund Airport and adds a travel grant of 100 DKK per week. The school does not say whether it admits foreign nationals.
Stages and year groups Grades 8-10. An efterskole for grades 8, 9 and 10; content plans follow the Danish guiding curricula of the folkeskole: end-of-year exams in grade 8, FP9 exams in grade 9 and FP10 in grade 10. Grades 8 and 9 are taught together. Compulsory in grades 8-9 are Danish, maths, English, German, religion, history, social studies, biology, geography, PE, physics and chemistry, a common lesson and in grade 8 home economics; in grade 10 Danish, maths, English, history, religion and a common lesson, with German and physics and chemistry optional. Cambridge: the elective Cambridge IGCSE English (English as a Second Language), 2 lessons a week, optional; it can be taken for half a year (in spring, with exam preparation) or the whole year, and at the end of the year students may sit the Cambridge IGCSE exam, which is optional. The school does not say which grade the elective is for. The core curriculum is Danish.
Address Hedemøllevej 31, 8850 Bjerringbro
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre: an elective in Cambridge IGCSE English as a Second Language, with an optional exam. The main curriculum is Danish, with the folkeskole exams.
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CambridgeCambridge International Education
Part of the University of Cambridge. It allows a school to teach the Cambridge programmes and to enter pupils for the exams. There are four stages and they are authorised separately: primary, lower secondary, IGCSE and A Level. If the stages are known they are named in the line below; if that line is missing, the school does not publish them, and the Cambridge registry does not show stages either - it gives only the name of the centre, the country and whether private candidates are accepted. Cambridge calls what it does registration rather than accreditation, and the network holds about ten thousand schools.
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: IGCSE (ages 14-16). IGCSE means exams at around Year 10 or 11, the British counterpart of a lower secondary leaving certificate.
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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 hall
·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
✓Boarding
Also on site: Sports ground or field · Art studio · Makerspace
Campus: The school stands in a natural setting a few kilometres north of Bjerringbro, on the site of an old water mill, with compact buildings. There is a sports hall, a fitness area, a multi and panna court, a football pitch, a go-kart track, a music room with instruments, a recording studio, a creative workshop, a woodwork room, a motor and metal workshop and an e-sports room. The kitchen holds the top Danish food inspection rating (elitesmiley). Bjerringbro station is about 4 kilometres away, and on Fridays and Sundays the school drives students to and from trains and buses.
Clubs and activities: Volleyball · Volley-nørd (advanced volleyball) · Fodbold (football) · Fodbold-nørd (advanced small-sided football) · Badminton · Basketball · Bordtennis (table tennis) · Fitness · Styrketræning (strength training) · Spring og rytme (jumping and rhythm) · Løb (running) · Mountainbike (mountain biking) · Friluftsliv (outdoor life) · Ridning (horse riding) · Band · Lovsangsband (worship band) · Digital musikproduktion (digital music production) · Guitar · Klaver (piano) · Film · Foto (photography) · Glaskunst (glass art) · Keramik (ceramics) · Tegning og grafik (drawing and printmaking) · Kreativt værksted (creative workshop) · Strik og hækling (knitting and crochet) · Madkundskab (cooking) · Medier og journalistik (media and journalism) · Astronomi (astronomy) · FIRST LEGO League · Ledertræning (leadership training) · Psykologi (psychology) · Top-matematik (advanced maths) · Hyg og byg (building and making together)
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
✓Number of teachers15
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
The website lists 15 teachers, the head of school and the deputy head (who teaches maths), plus two young assistant staff. Each contact group has its own teacher who holds individual talks and keeps in touch with parents. Cambridge IGCSE English is taught by an English teacher. On weekday evenings four teachers help students with homework.
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 policy
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policy
The school has a published anti-bullying policy that also covers online bullying: suspicions are shared in the staff room, the contact teacher knows about the student's earlier experiences, and the management receives a daily report from the duty teacher. House rules: no alcohol, drugs, smoking, e-cigarettes or snus; boys and girls live on separate corridors; from 22:30 to 6:30 students stay in their rooms; breaches normally lead to being sent home at once. Bicycle helmets and reflective vests are compulsory on the roads.
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 data65 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data70 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data75 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 Value for money (6%) scored at the median83 "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.
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