← Back to the rankingInternationella Engelska Skolan Södra Änggården
Gothenburg, Sweden · est. 2024 · Private
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Internationella Engelska Skolan Södra Änggården is a bilingual, free independent school (friskola) in the new Södra Änggården district in south-west Göteborg. It opened in August 2024 in a new building, into which the former IES Krokslätt school moved and changed its name; in the first year it had about 720 students from the preschool class to grade 7, and by 2026 the school had grown into a full F-9 school with three classes per year group and 900 students. It follows the Swedish national curriculum, with up to half of lessons taught in English by qualified teachers from Canada, the USA and the UK. The environmentally certified building is set into the terrain next to the Änggårdsbergen nature area; it has a large rooftop area for play and socialising, an on-site kitchen, a well-designed schoolyard and a sports hall. The school offers extra classes for the Cambridge IGCSE English as a Second Language exam and hosts the exam itself; the school robotics team took third place at the RoboCup Junior Sweden finals.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE · National programme
Languages of instruction
Swedish, English
Languages taught
Spanish, French
Class size
Maximum class size: up to 28 students in the preschool class and grades 1-3, up to 30 in grades 4-5, up to 32 in grades 6-9.
About the fees Education is free: the school states that there are no fees to attend and that its schools are funded in the same way as municipal schools, through the Swedish tax system and the school voucher (skolpeng). School lunch is also free of charge.
Admissions Education is free and places are allocated by queue: the school has its own queue, and the place goes to whoever has been in it longest. A child can be placed in the queue from 1 February of the year after birth at the earliest; applications are accepted all year, and families may queue for several schools at once. Sibling priority applies if an older child already attends or has been accepted at a school of the same operator when the younger one is due to start. There are no entrance exams or selection tests, and no prior English is required. Families can join the queue from abroad, but the school offers places only to children registered as residents in Sweden (folkbokförda); families without a Swedish personnummer who plan to move are asked to contact the school directly, and those without a Swedish BankID can submit a paper application form by post or email. Children offered a place are invited to an introductory workshop day.
Stages and year groups Grades F-9. Förskoleklass and grundskola, årskurs 1-9, under the Swedish national curriculum, with three classes per year group; up to half of lessons in English and the rest in Swedish. There is a modern foreign languages department for grades 6-9; the operator's general pages name Spanish, French and, in many schools, German. Cambridge: the school describes itself as an accredited associate of Cambridge International Education; students may voluntarily take IGCSE exams, and at present the school offers additional classes and hosts the exam only for English as a Second Language (Cambridge IGCSE English as a Second Language). There are no other Cambridge subjects and no Cambridge Primary or Lower Secondary courses.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE · authorised programmeInternationella Engelska Skolan · school is part of the networkThe main curriculum is Swedish, with about half of the subjects taught in English. The Cambridge register names the school as its centre: as an option it runs classes and the exam in Cambridge IGCSE English as a Second Language.
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
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.
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.
Internationella Engelska Skolanschool network
Internationella Engelska Skolan (IES) is a Swedish network of tuition-free independent schools (friskolor). The network says it is one of Sweden's largest operators of compulsory schools: about 30 thousand students in 46 schools from Trelleborg in the south to Skellefteå in the north. The schools follow the Swedish curriculum and teach about half of their subjects in English. The schools are owned by Internationella Engelska Skolan i Sverige AB; since 2020 the majority of it has belonged to the investment firm Paradigm Capital. Some schools of the network are Cambridge centres and run separate IGCSE courses.
What this means for this school. The network owns or operates the school. Its accreditation and programme authorisation the school obtains separately, in its own name.
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
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Playground
Campus: A new environmentally certified building completed by August 2024 for 900 students, next to the Änggårdsbergen nature area: a large rooftop area for play and socialising, a sports hall, a schoolyard, a full production kitchen where food is cooked fresh on site daily (free lunch, several dishes and a vegetarian option), a library with computers and a librarian, and fritids after school care. It is a day school with no boarding.
Clubs and activities: Robotics team
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 sizein the key facts above
What the listings show: According to the operator, 85% of teachers hold a teaching qualification (2024/2025); about 6 in 10 of them qualified in Sweden, the rest abroad, mostly in English-speaking countries.
Up to half of lessons are taught in English by qualified teachers from English-speaking countries, including Canada, the USA and the UK; in the first year the school had just over 100 staff. The staff page lists departments of Swedish and Swedish as a second language, English, mathematics, social sciences and science, aesthetics, PE and modern languages, as well as special educators.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
·CCTVnot stated on the website
·Security staffnot stated on the website
✓Access control
✓Nurse or medical room
✓Counsellor
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policy
The schools are closed to the public and have a manned reception where visitors register; entrances are secured with locks, and contingency plans for threats are in place. Students, parents and staff sign an agreement on shared values under which the school stays free of vandalism, bullying and noise; students' phones are switched off and locked away during the school day. The student health team: two school nurses, two school counsellors, a study and careers advisor and special educators.
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 data80 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data75 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data61 "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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