← Back to the rankingInternationella Engelska Skolan Staffanstorp
Staffanstorp, Sweden · est. 2022 · Private
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Internationella Engelska Skolan Staffanstorp is a bilingual, free independent school (friskola) in the Vikhem district in the south of Staffanstorp, in a new school building. It opened in August 2022 with the preschool class to grade 7 and by August 2024 had grown into a full F-9 school. 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 school has 569 students, and 100% of grade 9 leavers qualified for upper secondary school. In December 2024 the school was approved by Cambridge International Education: interested students supplement the Swedish curriculum with Cambridge teaching and take IGCSE exams, overseen by a dedicated coordinator. The school's primary chess team won the Swedish schools championship in spring 2025; the fritidshem after school care is open from 06:00 to 18:00.
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; up to half of lessons in English and the rest in Swedish. Cambridge: since December 2024 the school has been approved by Cambridge International Education to offer Cambridge teaching and exams; according to the operator, interested students follow the Cambridge Pathway in addition to the Swedish curriculum and may take Cambridge IGCSE exams, on a voluntary basis. The school has a Cambridge IGCSE coordinator. The school does not name specific subjects or grades; the site mentions 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: since December 2024 it has been approved by Cambridge and offers optional IGCSE courses and exams.
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.
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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.
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
Exam results 100% of grade 9 leavers qualified for upper secondary school (gymnasieskola); the school does not state the year of the figure. In spring 2025 the primary chess team won the Swedish championship among 56 schools.
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
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: A new school building in Vikhem. The library is on the ground floor next to the dining hall, open 08:00 to 15:00, with books in Swedish and English and two librarians. Dining hall: free lunch, several dishes and a vegetarian option, with the kitchen run by contractor SVEA Cater. The fritidshem after school care for the preschool class to grade 6 runs from 06:00 to 18:00, with breakfast 07:30 to 07:55 and an afternoon snack. It is a day school with no boarding.
Clubs and activities: Chess club
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. Academics are led by the academic manager, who is also the Cambridge IGCSE coordinator; the school has special education teachers, support teachers and student assistants.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
✓CCTV
·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 school uses CCTV with signs where cameras operate, and recordings are kept for 72 hours. The student health team: two school nurses, two counsellors, a pastoral coordinator, a study and careers advisor and special educators.
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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 data80 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data85 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data70 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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