Here is the school that doubled school results in five years

A stone's throw from the high-rise buildings in Bredäng is the prosperous villa community Mälarhöjden. The difference between the two districts is usually described as one of Stockholm's largest class divisions

- There is really only one way that separates them. But the differences between the areas are huge. In Mälarhöjden live high-income earners, who have been in Sweden for a very long time. While here in Bredäng, segregation is great and most come from other countries originally, Kristina Tranetoft continues.

Almost 90 percent of the students at Bredängsskolan have a foreign background and most of the students' parents have no college education.

Deputy Principal Kristina Tranetoft lives in Bredäng herself and has her child at the school she works at. But that students with Swedish background apply to Bredängsskolan is unusual.

- Unfortunately, we have previously noticed that when other schools in the immediate area become full and we have offered a place with us, parents decline with the motivation that they do not want their children in a multicultural school, she says.

Bredängsskolan has been given extra resources by the municipality, as the school is considered to be one of the most socially disadvantaged in Stockholm. The money the school has used for two teachers in subjects such as Swedish, English and mathematics, but also to invest in smaller classes and homework help after school.

Why should schools with this kind of conditions receive extra money compared to other schools?

- We have to help our students succeed, because when they move on to high school they will meet a better future. If they don't enter high school, where will they go? We have the gang outside. We are in Bredäng, we know what reality is outside us in the square. There are things that attract there, but we want to attract with education, working life and success, says Kristina Tranetoft.