Methodology

Data sources

skoleplass.no is built exclusively on publicly available sources. Nothing you see on the school pages is bought from, or sourced through, commercial resellers of public data.

• Utdanningsdirektoratet (UDIR) — the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training. Nasjonalt Skoleregister (NSR/GSI), Norway's national school register, is the foundation: every primary and lower-secondary school in Norway with address, organisation number, year groups (trinn), pupil counts, and staff counts.
• Elevundersøkelsen (the pupil survey) — UDIR's annual survey covering wellbeing, teacher support, motivation, bullying, and the learning culture. We show results for year 7 and year 10.
• Nasjonale prøver (national tests) — scale scores (0–100, national average 50) in reading, numeracy, and English for year 5 and year 8. Sourced from UDIR's statistics portal.
• Brønnøysundregistrene (Brreg) — Norway's central register of business enterprises. Used as a fallback for organisation numbers and founding dates, especially for independent/private schools (friskoler).
• SSB (Statistics Norway) — Norway's official statistics agency. Background figures on municipalities, counties, and city districts — population, age distribution, living-conditions indicators. Used on municipality and county pages, never on individual schools.
• Kartverket (the Norwegian Mapping Authority) — place names, addresses, and the geometry of municipality and district borders.
• Google Places — count and average of star ratings for schools that are publicly listed. Ratings are subjective impressions and are always shown alongside UDIR's objective indicators, never on their own.
• Schools' own resources — links to the school's official site, term schedule (skolerute), and after-school programme (SFO) info where openly available.

The full source list with external links is at /en/kilder.

Refresh frequency

We sync data as often as the source publishes it — never more often. The table below shows how often each data point can change.

Every article carries a visible "last updated" timestamp under the title. The data points on school pages show the source's most recent publication date.

Known limitations

No data source is without gaps. It is more important that we are open about the limitations than that we pretend to have every answer.

• Privacy suppression below 5: UDIR does not publish results from Elevundersøkelsen or the national tests when the respondent group is fewer than 5 pupils. This is a statutory privacy safeguard. Small schools therefore have many hidden indicators — not because the school has something to hide, but because the sample is too small.
• ~93.9% participation in Elevundersøkelsen:participation is voluntary. Nationally it sits at around 94%, with variation between schools. Low participation at a single school means the results are less reliable, not necessarily worse.
• Gaps for small schools: the combination of privacy suppression and natural variance means schools with fewer than ~30 pupils per year group may lack most quality indicators.
• Source publication lag: Elevundersøkelsen from autumn 2025 is typically published in January/February 2026. Figures you see today may therefore be more than a year old — that is normal for this kind of statistic, not an error on our side.
• Google ratings are subjective: the number of ratings per school is often low, and people who rate schools are not a representative sample. Use the rating as one signal among many, not as a verdict.

Privacy

skoleplass.no does not collect personal data about pupils. Everything we show about individual schools is aggregated and published by UDIR. When privacy thresholds mean a figure is hidden, we say so instead of hiding the reason.

The full privacy statement for site users — newsletter sign-up, contact form, Plausible, Sentry — is at /personvern (Norwegian only).

Corrections

Is something wrong — a phone number that does not match, an outdated address, a score that does not line up with UDIR? Send us a note via the contact form with the correction intent — we prioritise those and reply once the fix is made.

We correct facts ourselves, but cannot change UDIR's underlying numbers. Where a piece of information comes from a public source and we reproduce it correctly, the correction has to happen at the source. We are glad to help you find the right authority.

What we do not collect

Just as important as what we do is what we do not do:

• We do not collect personal data about pupils, parents, or school staff.
• We do not use third-party advertising or tracking cookies.
• We do not resell data to third parties.
• We do not use AI chatbots or agents that log questions for further model training.
• We do not allow large-scale automated scraping — contact us if you need the datasets.