Guide

The guide, page by page

Everything in the Belgrade schools guide, grouped by the question you are actually holding.

Updated September 2026 · schools' own pages read 24 August 2026

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Every international school in Belgrade — All 19 of them, what each teaches and what each publishes.
Questions families ask — Short answers to the ones that come up again and again.

What the fee covers — What is inside the fee and what is billed on top.
Choosing a curriculum — IB, Cambridge, French, German, Russian.
How to apply — Testing, documents, waiting lists and the calendar.
IB schools — The authorised IB World Schools, and how to check.
Cambridge schools — Who teaches it, and how far.
Compare two schools — Side by side.
Which year group? — UK Years, US Grades and Serbian razred, lined up by age.
The admissions calendar — When each stage happens.

Kindergartens and preschools — 7 international kindergartens, and the schools taking children from age one.

After-school activities — 86 providers, indexed by what your child would do.
Swimming — Swimming schools and clubs that publish a children’s programme.
Football — Football schools and clubs that take children.
Basketball — Basketball schools run by Belgrade clubs.
Tennis — Tennis clubs that publish a children’s school.
Martial arts — Karate, judo, taekwondo and aikido clubs that take children.
Ballet and dance — Ballet and dance studios, gymnastics clubs and skating schools.
Music — Private music schools, instrument tuition and children’s choirs.
Art — Drawing, painting, design and ceramics studios that teach children.
Chess — Chess schools and clubs with a children’s programme.
Coding and robotics — Programming, robotics and STEM clubs for children.
Serbian for foreign children — Where a child who does not speak Serbian can learn it.
English — Language schools that publish a children’s English programme.
What language will my child be coached in? — Almost nobody publishes it. What we found, and what to ask.

There is no place — Waiting lists, the nationality quota, and the schools shortlists miss.
You are arriving mid-year — Who takes a child in January, and what to have ready.
Your child speaks no Serbian — What each school teaches in, and where English support stops.
You are considering a state school — What Serbian law grants a foreign family, and the catch on the language lessons.
You have a foreign certificate — When it needs recognising here, and when it does not.
You have not chosen a neighbourhood — Which school is where, and how the buses work.
Your child needs extra support — What is published, where the limits are, and what to ask in writing.
You are looking for an American school — There is not one. What American families choose instead.

Every page in this guide carries the date its sources were read. Nothing here reproduces a fee figure.