Celebration! Ingrid was accepted to the school she most wanted.

Solhemsskolan only has grades F to 6, so Ingrid will be attending a different school next year. There is a fair amount of choice, both run-of-the-mill schools run by the city, and “free” schools with various profiles.

Several of the more promising-looking “free” schools accept children based on a queue and we would have needed to sign Ingrid up shortly after she was born to have any chance to get into those. We weren’t planning quite that far ahead…

Luckily the school closest to us – even closer than the kids’ current school, which is just a five-minute walk away – is also one of the best city schools this side of town. And even better, that school has a special class with a math/science focus. Ingrid is very much into those subjects, so she applied to this class, and was really hoping to get a place there.

Normally kids get allocated a place at a city school based on distance only – not necessarily at the nearest school, but optimizing so that no child has to walk more than 2 (?) kilometers to school. But because this class has a specific profile/focus, students wanting a place need to have good grades in the relevant subjects and also to attend a group interview where they discuss math and science-related topics. (At an info meeting at the school we heard that most years, students with As in both math and science would be guaranteed a place, but there were more applicants with double As this year, so even with her great grades Ingrid was not 100% sure to get in.)

The interview was a good while ago and Ingrid has been anxious to find out the results.

Yesterday Ingrid got the great news that she was accepted.

Today we celebrated with Ingrid’s most favourite food ever – sushi, of course.