Guide

The guide, page by page

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

Schools' own pages read 24 August to 23 September 2026

Start here

Every international school in Belgrade – All 20 of them, what each teaches and what each publishes.
Questions families ask – Short answers to the ones that come up again and again.

Choosing a school

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 the schools – All of them in one table.
Which year group? – UK Years, US Grades and Serbian razred, lined up by age.
The admissions calendar – When each stage happens.

Before school age

Kindergartens and preschools – 18 international kindergartens, and the schools taking children from age one.

After school

After-school activities – 119 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.
Volleyball – Volleyball clubs that publish a children’s school, and the school halls each one uses.
Water polo – Water polo clubs that publish a children’s school, and whether a child has to swim first.
Handball – Belgrade handball clubs that publish a children’s school on a page of their own.
Athletics – Athletics clubs that publish a children’s school, and where each one trains in winter.
French – Where a child can learn French, and who says what age they take.
German – Where a child can learn German, and who says what age they take.
Russian – Russian as a foreign language, and Russian for children who already speak it.
What language will my child be coached in? – Almost nobody publishes it. What we found, and what to ask.

If you are in one of these situations

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.

If this is who you are

A Russian-speaking family – The two schools that teach in Russian, and what the English-medium ones do with no English.
A diplomatic family – The school with an embassy on its board, the one that is an embassy, and enrolling from abroad.
A Serbian family returning home – Schools that run the Serbian programme and an international one together, and the state route to the IB.
A family on a two- or three-year posting – Which curriculum travels, which schools end before 18, and the courses a posting should not split.
A Serbian family choosing between state and private – What a fee buys a child staying in Serbia, the schools that keep the Serbian programme, and every published scholarship.

All 20 school profiles

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