Guide
International schools in Belgrade
Written by students who are actually in these schools. Every school in the city, what it teaches, what it charges and what it will not tell you until you ask.
Updated August 2026 · schools' own pages read 24 August 2026
We count 14 international and foreign-curriculum schools in Belgrade, plus one state school authorised to teach the IB Diploma — 15 in all on this page. They cluster in three neighbourhoods — Dedinje, Senjak and Banovo Brdo — and split into four curriculum families: the IB, the Cambridge and British route, the French system and the German system. Only six of them publish a fee schedule at all; the rest release figures on request. Admission is rolling almost everywhere: there is no application season, only whether a place exists in your child's year group.
All 15 schools, by curriculum
International Baccalaureate
| School | Ages | Language | Where | Fees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tenth Belgrade Gymnasium Mihajlo Pupin | 15-19 | Serbian, with the IB Diploma taught in English | Novi Beograd | On request |
| Crnjanski | 7-18 | Serbian for the national programme, English for IBDP and Cambridge Upper Secondary | Banovo Brdo, Žarkovo | On request |
| Ruđer Bošković | 5-18 | English and Serbian | Banovo Brdo, Košutnjak | Publishes a schedule |
| ISB | 3-18 | English | Senjak | Publishes a schedule |
Cambridge and British
| School | Ages | Language | Where | Fees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BIS | 3-18 | English | Voždovac | On request |
| Brook Hill | 1-18 | English | Dedinje, Vračar, Senjak | On request |
| Chartwell | 2-18 | English | Dedinje, Savski Venac | On request |
| Green School | 5-14 | English | Ada Ciganlija | On request |
| IPS | 1-14 | English | Dedinje | On request |
| International School | 5-19 | English | Vračar | Publishes a schedule |
| PRIMA | 2-18 | English | Senjak | On request |
| Westbridge | 5-18 | English | Novi Beograd | On request |
French
| School | Ages | Language | Where | Fees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EFB | 2.5-18 | French | Senjak | Publishes a schedule |
German
| School | Ages | Language | Where | Fees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DSB | 3-18 | German | Senjak | Publishes a schedule |
Other
| School | Ages | Language | Where | Fees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EDUCA | 3-14 | English | Dedinje | On request |
Four things that shape every other decision
Four things are true of Belgrade that are not obvious from any school's own website, and they shape every decision below.
- Most schools do not publish fees. 5 of 14 do. That is not a small detail — it means you cannot build a shortlist from websites alone, and it makes the interview a pricing conversation as much as an educational one. Our fees page collects every figure that exists publicly.
- There is no application season. Almost every school here admits year-round and is gated only on whether a seat exists in a specific year group on a specific date. The French school is the exception, with a February pre-registration window. So the right question is never "when do applications open" but "do you have a place in Year 7 in January".
- The schools are in three neighbourhoods. Dedinje, Senjak and Banovo Brdo hold almost all of them, which is why families with school-age children concentrate there. Only Westbridge and the state Deseta gimnazija are in New Belgrade. If you are choosing where to live before you choose a school, that geography is the constraint.
- Only one school publishes what it can and cannot do for a child with additional needs. ISB states a ceiling — 150 minutes a week of additional support included, with anything beyond that funded by the family. No other Belgrade school publishes its limits. That does not mean the others provide nothing; it means you have to ask, in writing, early.
The state route to the IB
Belgrade also has a state route to the IB Diploma. Deseta gimnazija „Mihajlo Pupin“ in Novi Beograd is an authorised IB World School running the Diploma Programme alongside the Serbian national gimnazija, with IB classes capped at 20 and entry by first- and second-year grades plus an entrance examination.
It publishes nothing about whether the IB stream carries a charge, so we cannot tell you what it costs — only that state education in Serbia is free and this is a state school. What we can say is that no directory lists it beside the private schools, so families comparing IB options usually never learn it exists.
How this guide is made
This guide is put together by students at these schools and reviewed twice a year. Where a school publishes something, we say where we found it and when we looked. Where a school publishes nothing, we say that instead of estimating — a number with no source behind it is worse than no number, and most of the wrong figures circulating about Belgrade schools began as somebody's estimate.
Where a claim rests on a directory rather than the school, it is labelled. Where a school states something we have not checked against the relevant register, that is labelled too — it means we have not checked it, not that we doubt it.
Everything here is built from what schools publish themselves and from public registers. We have not yet contacted the schools directly. When we do, their answers will appear on their pages with the date we asked, and the open questions will close one by one.
Every school in Belgrade has a page here, whether or not it works with us. Our policy on working with schools sets out what can and cannot be bought.
Something wrong or out of date? Write to hello@thebridgebelgrade.com and we will correct it and note when we did.