According to municipal officials, 84% of middle school students in the municipality's own schools now feel safe in school, an increase of five percentage points compared to 2023. In 2024, Sigtuna introduced a ten-point program for a calmer and safer school, which includes new assistant principals responsible for safety and study peace at middle schools and an emergency school for temporary relocation of students with norm-breaking behavior. Mattias Askerson, chairman of the education committee, stated that the ten-point program has high priority for the municipal leadership, and additional resources have been added to strengthen the social services' presence in schools during 2025.
Safety has increased among both girls and boys, but a difference remains between the groups' experiences, with 89% of boys reporting they feel safe compared to 79% of girls. Regarding study peace, 78% of students respond that they can work during lessons, but every fourth girl answers that they do not feel they can work during lessons. Mikael Östling Huhta, operations manager for primary school, noted that the perceived safety among girls has increased greatly compared to last year and that the difference between the genders is somewhat lower in the municipality than in the country as a whole.
It is very promising that our major investment in safety and study peace has already yielded results. The ten-point program has high priority for the municipal leadership, and we have added additional resources to strengthen the social services' presence in schools during 2025.
At Ekillaskolan and Tingvallaskolan in Märsta, perceived safety has increased the most; these are two of the five middle schools that received new assistant principals and safety teams in August. Mikael Östling Huhta attributed the improvement to more adults with the mandate to act, saying that an explanation for why more feel safe is that there are more adults with the mandate to act in the school's corridors and spaces. He added that the investments have yielded results so quickly, which he finds encouraging.
In November 2024, students in Sigtuna municipality's schools answered the municipality's annual primary school survey, which was the first since the investments within the ten-point program began.
An explanation for why more feel safe is that there are more adults with the mandate to act in the school's corridors and spaces.
We have allocated large resources to our schools for these investments to yield real results. The improvement we can see in the survey I think is reasonable, despite the relatively short time. We now need to continue developing the work so that all students in our schools feel safe and have study peace.
We need to continue the work of creating a study focus in all our lessons, with teaching where all students participate in the learning. In this way, study peace will increase for everyone. Encouraging is still that the perceived safety among girls has increased greatly compared to last year and that the difference between the genders is somewhat lower in our municipality than in the country as a whole.