Sunday 2 December 2018

School for Children from Age 7 years onward in Stockholm, Sweden

Sweden has compulsory education for children from 6 years to 16 years of age. When kid is 6 years old, he or she should be sent to Pre-school to prepare school for next year. Kids 7 years old will start with Grade 1. They will continue in Primary school up to Grade 9, by that time they will complete or turn 16 years old.

Educational year is divided into 2 terms. Starts in Aug and Ends in June following year.
Term 1 starts during August of ever year and it ends with Christmas holidays in December.
Term 2 starts during January of next year and it ends by June with closing ceremony.
Summer holidays : June 2nd week to Aug 2nd week.

Education Language or Medium of teaching
1. Swedish
2. English
3. Bi-Lingual (Swedish and English)

How to apply for School?
Child needs to have a personal number and the parent needs to have a Bank-Id, if you need to apply for school via Stockholm Stad e-Service.

List of Primary Schools

There could be some independent schools for which you might not be able to apply via e-service. Hence, you need to visit respective school website and apply through their website.

What happens, if you don't have personal number for child and parents?
You can still apply for the school by finding email id of respective school and send them details via email.

When to apply for School?
Even though academic year starts in August of every year, it's better to apply for admission during Jan-Feb months or even before.

How much is the school fee?
There is no school fee for the kids studying in Sweden. However, if you send your kid to the day care or after school or Fritids, you need to pay the fee for the same appropriately.
You can visit this page and read Part-time fee section.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

The blog is very useful.Please replace the list of primary schools link which is not working