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.

Children Day Care, Pre-School or förskola in Stockholm, Sweden

Up to Age 6 years : Pre-School or förskola

Children from 1 year age to 6 years old can be sent to Pre-school or förskola. Day care is from Age of 1 year to 5 years. Then during the Year 6, they are prepared to send to school next year when they turn 7 (to send to Grade 1).

In general, Swedish pre-schools are excellent, they take care of kids very well. Each Pre-school has a different number of kids but there would be a care taker for a group of 5 or 6 kids. Hence, we need not worry about their care when they are in day care.

How to apply for Pre-school or Day care or förskola ?

Visit this link and login with Mobile Bank Id. Most of the schools have very long queues. Hence, it's better to apply for child care as soon as child gets a personal number even if you want to send kid after 1 year or 2 year or 3 years with a future start date.

What are the Fees for Pre-school?

This is the most trickiest part and very interesting system as well, which I had not seen anywhere in the world. It's not very simple to understand.

Your child fee is depending on following factors:

1. Household income per month before tax (both parents)

2. How many children in the family

3. How many hours per week would you like to send your children to Pre-school (Part-Time or Full Time).

First, let us understand what's part time and full time fee as this is very crucial.

Full Time Fee : 

Child age : 1 to 2 years and they are sent to day care for more than 30 hours per week.

Youngest child : 3% of income, maximum 1382 SEK

The second youngest child : 2% of the income, maximum 922 SEK
Next child : 1% of income, maximum 461 SEK
From the fourth child : no fee.

Part Time Fee : 

Child Age 1 to 2 years : Up to 30 hours per week is considered part-time.

Child Age 3 to 5 years : Even if they are sent more than 30 hours per week, they will be considered part time fee. This is applicable from the time the child turns 3 years old beginning from Aug term of the year.

Youngest child : 2% of income, maximum 922 SEK
The second youngest child : 1% of the income, maximum 461 SEK
Next child : 1% of income, maximum 461 SEK
From the fourth child : no fee.

Link to Stockholm Stad web site : Fees for Child care

Contact Details of Stockholm Stad for Pre-school queries

Phone: 08-508 00 508 
E-mail:  forskola@stockholm.se