Rungsted Skole

What Rungsted Skole does

Rungsted Skole is a public municipal folkeskole (primary and lower-secondary school) operated by Hørsholm Kommune (Hørsholm Municipality) in Rungsted Kyst, Denmark. The school delivers compulsory education to approximately 450 students across grades 0 through 9, organized in two parallel classes (two tracks) per grade level, and divided into a lower-school department (grades 0-4) and an upper-school department (grades 5-9). It is the smallest school in the municipality by enrollment. Beyond core academic instruction, the school runs two after-school care and youth-club facilities: SFO Regnbuen for grades 0-2 and Klub Titanic for grades 3-6, with Regnbuen holding a Nature SFO certification.

The school's technology stack is built on shared municipal platforms: AULA serves as the daily communication backbone between teachers, parents, and students; Min Uddannelse hosts annual plans, weekly plans, and student portfolios; smartboards are deployed in all classrooms; and Din Plads is used for SFO enrollment and withdrawal. The school participates in cross-border cooperation programs with schools in Norway and the Faroe Islands (focused on reading engagement since 2024), and maintains partnerships with UU-Sjælsø for career guidance, the Karen Blixen Museum (Rungstedlund), Teknisk Museum, the Danish Traffic Safety Council, and Nordsjællands Politi for thematic curricular input.

Rungsted Skole operates as a non-commercial public institution under the Danish Folkeskoleloven, with no publicly disclosed revenue, no tuition fees, and parent payments limited to municipality-set SFO fees and partial cost recovery for school camps. The school is led by Principal Ulla Wiese Christensen, with three department heads covering lower school, upper school, and SFO/Club, and a school board (Skolebestyrelsen) chaired by Signe Bang-Møller that sets principles for operations, school-home cooperation, and budget. Recent activity includes completion of a lower-school facility expansion in 2025 and reported net positive enrollment, with students achieving the highest 9th-grade exam average (8.6) in Hørsholm Municipality in 2024.

Name

Rungsted Skole

Legal name

Rungsted Skole

Website

https://rungstedskole.horsholm.dk

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Rungsted Skole is a public municipal folkeskole in Hørsholm Municipality, Denmark, providing tuition-free education to approximately 450 students in grades 0-9 across two parallel classes per grade, with attached SFO/Club after-school care and partnerships for career guidance and cultural programming.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Primary Education

NAICS

Elementary and Secondary Schools (61111)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Public K–12 Combined Schools (EDAJAAAE)

Keywords

• Public school education
• Elementary education
• After-school care
• Primary education services
• Folkeskole education

Headquarters

HQ city

Rungsted

HQ country

Denmark

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Others

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Rungsted Skole delivers publicly funded Danish folkeskole education for approximately 450 students from 0th to 9th grade, organized across two parallel classes per grade and split into lower (0-4) and upper (5-9) school divisions. The core offering is supplemented by SFO Regnbuen (grades 0-2) and Klub Titanic (grades 3-6) before- and after-school care, with certified Nature SFO programming, international student exchanges (France, Germany), and Nordic teacher cooperation (Norway, Faroe Islands). Education is free of charge; SFO has municipality-set fees and lejrskole camps have partial cost recovery from parents.

Product overview

Rungsted Skole is a Danish public school (folkeskole) operating as a two-track school system with approximately 450 students from 0th to 9th grade. The school offers a unified educational portfolio comprising core school education, two SFO (School-Fritidsordning) divisions: Regnbuen for grades 0-2 and Titanic/Klub for grades 3-6, plus UU-vejledning career guidance services and a teacher internship program. The school uses AULA as its primary communication platform and Min Uddannelse for learning management, with SFO enrollment managed through the municipal Din Plads system.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• SFO Regnbuen: School-based after-school care facility for grades 0-2
• Titanic (Klub)

Products and services

• Skoleundervisning 0.-9. klasse (Folkeskole Education)
• SFO Regnbuen (0.-2. klasse)
• Klub Titanic (3.-6. klasse)
• UU-Vejledning (Educational and Career Guidance)
• Praktik (Teacher Internship Program)

Quantifiable outcome

• Character average of 8.6 at mandatory 9th grade final exams - highest in Hørsholm Municipality
• +3 more outcomes

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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No

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Integration3 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Norway and Faroe Islands SchoolsminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Nordic cooperation initiative where teachers will travel to the Faroe Islands and Norway next school year, and counterparts will visit Rungsted Skole. Focus on exchanging experiences to strengthen reading enthusiasm among students.
• UU-Sjælsø (Ungdommens Uddannelsesvejledning)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with UU-Sjælsø for educational and career guidance. UU-Sjælsø is a collaboration between Allerød and Hørsholm municipalities for guidance of young people from 7th grade to age 25 (KUI), as well as primary school students in Rudersdal. Provides collective and individual guidance for 7.-9. grade students on education and careers.
• Rådet for Sikker Trafik (Traffic Safety Council)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for traffic education. Materials from the Traffic Safety Council are used in both theoretical and practical traffic instruction across all grade levels, including The Small Cyclist Test, cycling practice, and visits from traffic informers who are traffic accident victims with visible disabilities.
• Karen Blixen Museum (Rungstedlund)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSchool has a partnership with Karen Blixen Museum for educational purposes. School board meetings held at the museum. Elisabeth Ibh, teacher at Rungsted Skole, also serves as guide at Rungstedlund.
• Teknisk Museum (Technical Museum)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration with Teknisk Museum on traffic education, particularly for the cycling test and cycling practice activities.
• Nordsjællands Politi (North Zealand Police)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on traffic safety education, including participation in cycling tests and practical traffic training.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Others

• itslearning: Nordic learning management system provider widely used in European K-12 schools. Adjacent comparable to Rungsted Skole's adoption of Min Uddannelse (analogous LMS) and AULA (school-home communication platform); useful for understanding the EdTech layer that the school depends on.

Broad incumbents

• International Engelska Skolan AB: Swedish for-profit K-9 operator with bilingual English-Swedish instruction across more than 40 schools. Comparable to Rungsted Skole as a Nordic K-12 operator focused on academic outcomes, providing benchmarks on school-level operating models and tuition-driven school economics.
• Maple Leaf Educational Systems: China-based for-profit K-12 operator with publicly listed peer-equivalents. Provides read-throughs on how a multi-school operator scales academic outcomes, manages teacher quality, and monetizes wraparound services analogous to Rungsted Skole's SFO/Klub portfolio.
• AcadeMedia AB: Nordic for-profit education operator running a large K-12 school portfolio across Sweden, Norway, and Germany. Relevant comparable for Rungsted Skole because it operates schools serving a similar age range in the same Nordic regulatory context, enabling read-throughs on per-pupil economics, staffing models, and operational benchmarks.
• GEMS Education: Global for-profit K-12 operator headquartered in the UAE with premium positioning and strong outcomes marketing. Useful as a comparative reference for international school operators' service differentiators and pricing power relative to a public-school comparator.
• Nord Anglia Education: Global operator of premium international K-12 schools with strong academic-outcome positioning. Relevant for analogous dual-academic-and-experiential programming and for understanding how differentiated curricula (e.g., collaborations with performing-arts or STEAM institutions) translate into family demand.
• Cognita Schools: International K-12 school group operating more than 70 schools across Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Comparable for benchmarking multi-school operator economics and for insights into the value of wraparound services (after-school care, enrichment clubs) akin to Rungsted Skole's SFO and Klub.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

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Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

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