About Täby Enskilda Gymnasium – Our School Profile

Täby Enskilda Gymnasium

Täby Enskilda Gymnasium (TEG) is a charter school without ties to any educational corporate groups, wholly independent since its establishment in 1999. Owned by local entrepreneur Poul Sörensen, our school has, over the past twenty years, grown and developed into one of the best schools in the country.

The school is operated as a privately owned business, and its board of directors consists of Poul Sörensen (chair), Fredrik Sörensen (CEO), Per Hagdahl (principal) as well as teacher union representatives.

Our Motto

Passion for learning

Our Students

The majority of the students at Täby Enskilda Gymnasium come from municipalities in the northeastern sector of Stockholm County. The socio-economic level of this area is upper middle class and above, and the educational level of the parents is relatively high.

Täby Enskilda is one of the most popular upper secondary schools in the greater Stockholm area.

Täby Enskilda has 900 students.

Curriculum and Graduation Requirements

Täby Enskilda Gymnasium follows the regulations set by the Swedish National Agency for Education, Skolverket. The school is financed through a national voucher system and we are by law only allowed to accept students based on their grades from year 9.

Due to our popularity, high grades are required to get into all programmes.

Täby Enskilda Gymnasium offers five university preparatory programmes:

The Aesthetic programme, media and communication orientation
The Economic programme
The Natural Sciences programme
The Social Sciences programme
The Technology programme

Grade Point Averages (GPA) for Graduating Students

The Swedish grading system

The Swedish grading system uses the letters F, E, D, C, B, A.

F stands for fail, and passing grades rank from E to A where A is the highest grade. All students attending Swedish university preparatory programmes take between 27-28 courses, totalling about 2500 hours, over three years. Each course is graded and each grade awards points as follows: E = 10 points, D = 12,5 points, C = 15 points, B = 17,5 points, A = 20 points.

Grade point average, GPA

In the national grading system, 20,0 is the maximum attainable grade point average.

Sweden uses an unweighted cumulative GPA. The final grade in a course is set at the end of the course. No midyear grades are set.

The GPA of graduating students of Täby Enskilda Gymnasium in the class of 2021 were:

Top 5%: 20,00
Top 10%: 19,86
Top 20%: 19,62
Average: 17,95
Median: 18,33
National average Sweden (2020): 15,0

IT Infrastructure

All students and teachers at TEG are equipped with an Apple lap top. All classrooms have video projectors and speakers. ICT is an integral part of all courses, and teachers use a variety of digital tools with their students. Students from TEG are skilled at using ICT.

Important Notes Concerning the Swedish School System

The Swedish school system limits students’ possibilities to add extra courses. All Swedish upper secondary schools are restrictive in allowing students to study more than the 2500 credits that are stipulated by the Swedish government. Students at TEG are sometimes allowed to take one or two extra courses during their third year.

The Diploma Project is only graded E or failed. This is not a reflection of the quality of the students’ work, which in most cases is at a very high level at Täby Enskilda Gymnasium.

The Swedish grading system uses the same letters as the American system, but works on different principles and thus should not be translated directly.

Our Students at International Universities and Colleges

Some examples:

Hampus Wåhlin (Class of 2012): University of Southern California, USA
Louise Gutenberg (Class of 2014): Stetson University, Florida, USA
Isabelle Brauer (Class of 2015), University of Oregon, USA
Malin Tönne Strömstedt (Class of 2016), Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland
Sara Rydman (Class of 2017), University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA
Lukas Sunesson (Class of 2017): Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Carl-Åke Willberg (Class of 2018), Southwestern University, Texas, USA
Selina Suchdev (Class of 2018): University of Edinburgh School of Biomedical Science, Scotland
Amanda Christianson (Class of 2018): Imperial College London, UK. Swedish High-School Students Internship Programme 2018 CERN, Switzerland
Kevin Nilsson Sam, (Class of 2018): London South Bank University, UK
Elias Åberg Garcia (Class of 2018), University of California, USA
Brooklynn Li Lavén, (Class of 2019): University of Sydney, Australia
Erik Hollman (Class of 2019), Rotterdam School of Management, Netherlands
Olivia Zibung (Class of 2020), University of Leeds, UK
Elsa Westman (Class of 2020), Berkeley College NYC, USA
Moa Grundström (Class of 2022), Portsmouth University, UK
Alexandra Törnqvist (Class of 2022), University of Sydney, Australia

Quality in Practice

As described by second year student Arvid Påhlman, 2020.

Täby Enskilda excels at providing assistance and a clear sense of direction for students in their school work.

Students are offered a variety of examination types such as group work, individual assignments or seminars.

Täby Enskilda has an active and independent student’s association, dedicated to developing school spirit by arranging fun activities all throughout the year.

Study Time is scheduled every week, where students and teachers can provide feedback to each other and students can express their concerns regarding specific assignments.

Täby Enskilda offers students healthy and nutritious food prepared fresh by our own chefs to keep students and staff well-fed, as being hungry or malnutritioned is detrimental to higher level thinking.

Covid-19 Adaption

During the spring semester, from March 18 to June 3, 2020, all Swedish upper secondary schools were physically closed to students. Täby Enskilda offered full time ’remote learning’, meaning that the students were following classes at home and the teachers taught from school.

During the school year from August 24, 2020 to June 8, 2021, TEG employed a rolling schedule of ’partial remote learning’, meaning that each day one to two thirds of our students were studying from home.

Since all students and staff at Täby Enskilda have a school-provided laptop, and since the IT-infrastructure of the greater Stockholm area is very good, remote education has faced few technical challenges. Pedagogically, too, our staff and students have managed very well during these trying times: On graduation day, June 3 2020, Täby Enskilda saw no negative effects on the third year students’ final grades compared to those of previous classes. Sweden has made no significant changes to the grading scales, policies for grading or graduation requirements during the Covid-19 pandemic.