What Grennessminde Birkerød does

Grennessminde Birkerød is a Danish nonprofit special treatment school (behandlingsskole) located in Birkerød in the Greater Copenhagen area, founded in 1977 by Agnete Grenness after her experience with a developmentally delayed sister. It serves approximately 40 children and adolescents with complex neurodevelopmental and psychosocial needs, including ADHD, autism spectrum disorders, acquired brain injuries, attachment disorders, and socio-emotional disorders. The school is organized into five small therapeutic houses — Haven, Lunden, Oasen, Skovbrynet, and Udsigten — each accommodating 6-8 students with three dedicated teachers, for a total staff of approximately 27 employees.

The institution operates under a direct municipal referral model rather than open parental enrollment: students are placed by their home municipality's social services in coordination with Pædagogisk Psykologisk Rådgivning (PPR), with catchment spanning municipalities across Greater Copenhagen and North Zealand. The school is foundation-owned, with Fonden GMB (the GMB Foundation) serving as the governing body, and is affiliated with the Global Special Education Network (GSEN) as well as four Danish sector bodies — the Danish Association of Special Schools, the Danish Association of Treatment Schools, the Danish Association of Therapeutic Schools, and the Danish Association of Special Education Schools.

Revenue is generated through per-pupil payments from Danish municipalities for each placement, making the school fully dependent on the public special-education funding system. Because it is a foundation-owned nonprofit, there is no equity, growth capital, or exit pathway; all surpluses are reinvested into the operation. The service is fundamentally labor-intensive and human-delivered, with no disclosed technology platform, digital product, or proprietary curriculum asset beyond the institutional methodology built over the school's nearly five decades of operation.

Name

Grennessminde Birkerød

Legal name

Behandlings- og specialskolen Grennessminde Birkerød ApS

Website

https://grennessminde.dk

Company type

Private

Founded year

1977

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Danish nonprofit special treatment school in Birkerød serving approximately 40 children with ADHD, autism, brain injury, and attachment disorders, organized into five small houses with high teacher ratios. Foundation-owned and funded through municipal referrals across Greater Copenhagen and North Zealand.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Special Education and Therapeutic Treatment Services

NAICS

Elementary and Secondary Schools (61111)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Therapeutic/Behavioral & Residential Treatment K–12 Schools (EDAJABAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Specialized Programs & Classrooms (Autism, Emotional/Behavioral, Intellectual/Developmental, Multi-Disability) (EDAJAKAH), Specialized Residential Special Education Programs (EDAKAAAH)

Keywords

• Special education services
• Therapeutic school programs
• Special needs education
• Residential treatment school
• Child psychology services

Headquarters

HQ city

Birkerød

HQ country

Denmark

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Municipal Referral Funding: Revenue comes from quality agreements with Rudersdal Kommune and contracts with municipalities across Greater Copenhagen and North Zealand. Students are referred and funded through their home municipality's social services and educational authorities.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Grennessminde Birkerød operates a treatment and special school for approximately 40 children and young people from grades 2 to 11 with special difficulties including ADHD, autism spectrum disorders, brain injuries, attachment disorders, socio-emotional disorders, and developmental delays. Students are organized into five residential houses (Haven, Lunden, Oasen, Skovbrynet, Udsigten) with 6-8 students and 3 teachers per house. The program integrates individualized special education in Danish, mathematics, physical education, home economics, and English with therapeutic treatment, psychological services, career guidance, and family counseling under the Folkeskole Act.

Product overview

Grennessminde Birkerød operates as a unified treatment and special school offering, organized around five residential houses (Haven, Lunden, Oasen, Skovbrynet, and Udsigten) serving approximately 40 students from 2nd to 11th grade with special difficulties. The core offering integrates special education instruction, treatment services, psychological support, career guidance, and family treatment. Skovbrynet serves younger students while the other four houses accommodate older students. Each house maintains approximately 6-8 students with 3 teachers, operating from 8:15 to 14:15 daily.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Haven: One of the five school houses at Grennessminde Birkerød, serving older students.
• Lunden
• Oasen
• Skovbrynet
• Udsigten

Products and services

• Behandlings- og specialskoletilbud (Treatment and Special School Services) A treatment and special school program for children and young people from grades 2 to 11 with special difficulties (ADHD, autism spectrum disorders, brain injuries, attachment disorders, socio-emotional disorders, developmental delays), serving approximately 40 students across five residential houses (Haven, Lunden, Oasen, Skovbrynet, Udsigten) with 6-8 students and 3 teachers per house. Funded via quality agreements with Rudersdal Kommune and contracts with municipalities across Greater Copenhagen and North Zealand.
• Specialundervisning (Special Education Instruction) Special education instruction in Danish, mathematics, physical education, home economics, and optionally English, based on individual academic levels and development potential, delivered under the Folkeskole Act framework.
• Vejledning (Career Guidance) Career counseling services for graduating students, including individual and group counseling sessions, course arrangements, internship placements, and visits to continuation schools and educational institutions, delivered by a guidance counselor with over 10 years of experience and a diploma in guidance counseling.
• Psykologydelser (Psychological Services) Psychological services including treatment plan development, student assessments, teaching, family therapy, and supervision for teachers, conducted by the school's in-house psychologist.
• Forældresamarbejde og familiebehandling (Parent Cooperation and Family Treatment) Family treatment and counseling services integrated with parent cooperation, including ongoing conversations and treatment programs related to the child's schooling, offered to parents of enrolled students.

Quantifiable outcome

• Students achieve academic success including passing grades in national final exams (FSA)
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and supporting.

• Rudersdal KommunecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGrennessminde has entered into a quality agreement with Rudersdal Kommune pursuant to the Act on Treatment and Special Education Services for Children and Young People. Based on the quality agreement, social supervision is conducted with Grennessminde by supervisors from Region H. Supervision of special education is handled by Rudersdal Kommune.
• PPR Rudersdal KommunecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration with PPR (Pædagogisk Psykologisk Rådgivning) in Rudersdal Kommune, which participates in ongoing enrollment and re-visitation of individual students for the following school year.
• Sundhedstjenesten RudersdalsupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerEstablished collaboration with the health service in Rudersdal Kommune for student health support.
• Logopæder RudersdalsupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration with speech therapists (logopæder) in Rudersdal Kommune for students requiring speech and language support.
• Simple Solution ITsupportingTechnology or IntegrationExternal IT provider handling IT administration, support for houses, individual teachers and students regarding compensatory IT aids and IT teaching programs.
• Municipalities in Storkøbenhavn and NordsjællandcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerClose collaboration with a wide range of professionals around each individual student, including parents, caseworkers, psychologists, family counselors, physiotherapists, etc. Serves students from multiple municipalities in Greater Copenhagen and North Zealand.
• Fonden GMB (Grennessminde Foundation)coreOthersThe school is owned by Fonden GMB (Grennessminde Foundation). The foundation has a board consisting of Peter Ulholm (Chairman), Hanne B. Møller (Vice Chairman), Christian Høeg Aziz, Randi Juul-Olsen, Emil Johansen, and Jesper Wass Hansen (CEO).

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Priory Group: A large UK-based private provider operating residential special education schools, healthcare services, and adult care. Operates a portfolio of special education schools comparable to Grennessminde's integrated treatment-education model but at far greater scale and as part of a broader healthcare portfolio.
• Witherslack Group: A UK provider of residential and day special education schools, children's homes, and fostering services for children with special educational needs including autism, ADHD, and social-emotional difficulties. Operates with similar multidisciplinary clinical-educational model to Grennessminde.

Peers

• Hesley Group:

Direct peers

• Kofoedsminde: A well-known Danish treatment and residential education institution that similarly combines therapeutic support with educational programming for children and young people with special needs. It is the closest Danish functional peer to Grennessminde's integrated treatment-school model.

Market position

Strengths2 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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M&A

Investments

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