News | 13 January 2025
The IES Quality Report 2023/2024 is now available
Today Internationella Engelska Skolan (IES) presents the yearly IES Quality Report which describes our systematic quality work during the academic year 2023/2024. As always the report provides an insight into life in our schools as well as quality statistics and detailed descriptions of how IES works systematically to develop our schools further.
For more than three decades, IES has run schools based on our fundamental principles; our ethos. The principles are to give students the opportunity to develop a good command of the English language, high academic expectations and systematic work for a safe and calm school environment, where students can focus on their learning and the teachers on teaching. The goal is always to give every student the opportunity to reach their full potential, regardless of their background.
Lars Jonsson, CEO of IES, said: “I am very proud of the efforts made by all school leaders, teachers, staff at IES schools, together with our specialists at an organisational level. But more than anything else, I want to draw attention to our students, their effort, perseverance and academic results."
From the content of the Quality Report:
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One of the primary goals for IES is for all students to qualify for further study. In total, 92.3 per cent of IES students qualified for upper secondary school, compared with 83.7 per cent for Sweden as a whole. In the 2023/2024 academic year 81.3 per cent of all IES students who graduated from year nine passed all of their subjects. This figure was 71.9 per cent for the entire country including IES, which means that IES students helped to raise the national average.
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For the third year in a row, national statistics for the results of the year nine national tests (2023/2024) showed a higher level of consistency between IES students’ results in these tests and their final grades in Swedish, Swedish as second language, mathematics and English when compared with the entire country. We see this as proof that the continuous efforts made by our teachers, principals and academic managers to ensure accurate and fair grading are having an impact.
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IES’ employees mainly come from Sweden and English-speaking countries such as Canada, the US and the UK. Around 2,420 of IES’ 3,700 employees are teachers. 84 per cent of the teachers have a teaching degree, of these 50 per cent were educated at a Swedish university and 50 per cent hold a degree in teaching from another country. Across Sweden’s compulsory schools as a whole, an average of 66 per cent of teachers have a teaching degree from university.
You can read the full report at engelska.se/quality