[tofflos]

No, because applications, publishing and intent doesn't factor in.

Student grades and disciplinary issues become official documents as soon as the teacher documents them regardless of form (i.e. paper, audio recording, IT-system, etc). The school is then obligated to provide those official documents to anyone upon request.

The school could argue that this information should be kept secret but student grades are not explicitly protected by law and it has already been established that this type of information is in fact public. I don't know about disciplinary issues but interactions with social services and psychologists are explicitly protected by law.

The Swedish government has always been obligated to make information accessible to humans and with new regulation regarding Open data and Digital government that obligation has increased to also make information accessible to machines. Attempting to create an application that makes this difficult would be misconduct - the Swedish government is obligated to provide APIs.

[xmprt]

Can a different parent look at my child's grades? Or is there still some level of privacy where only certain parties are allowed to view certain documents even if they are official.

[tofflos]

Yes.

Edit 1: I figured I should back this up with a source but all the ones I could find are written in Swedish. So either accept my translation or ask a trustworthy Swede to translate it for you.

> Skolbetyg är allmänna handlingar, och vem som helst kan beställa fram betyg från arkiven. Journalister brukar t ex ofta vilja se på nytillträdda ministrars skolbetyg.

Source https://riksarkivet.se/skolbetyg

Translation:

School grades are official documents, and anyone can request grades from the archives. Journalists often like to see the school grades of newly elected government officials.

This source is the Swedish National Archive but this also applies to non-historical grades.

Edit 2:

> Or is there still some level of privacy where only certain parties are allowed to view certain documents even if they are official.

The government can, and will, opt-in to secrecy for things like social services and medical records.

[henrikschroder]

The example you're talking about is for adults who have been out of school for a while.

I'm pretty sure you can't request information about minors, so you can't look up the grades of your neighbour's kids or something like that.

[tofflos]

Here is the form: https://sok.stadsarkivet.stockholm.se/Betygsformular

[henrikschroder]

Right, ok, but you can only request final grades. So you can only do this once on 15-year-olds, after they've finished primary school. And the next time you can do this on a person, they're gonna be 18 and have graduated high school.

I thought the primary school final grades were protected until you're an adult, but apparently not.