School profile
EDUCA International School
Finnish pedagogy combined with the school's own international framework and the NTC early-learning method, with nature-connected and forest-classroom teaching. Ages 3 to 14 only – there is no upper secondary, so pupils move on elsewhere at 14.
Schools' own pages read 23 September 2026
EDUCA International School is in Dedinje and teaches ages 3-14. It follows a programme built on Finnish pedagogy, its own international framework and the NTC Framework. Teaching is in English. It publishes figures on its own site, on a page its own menu does not link to. Everything here comes from the school’s own pages and public registers, read on 23 September 2026.
The facts
| Curriculum | Finnish pedagogy, bespoke international framework, NTC Framework |
|---|---|
| Language of instruction | English |
| Ages | 3-14 |
| Year groups | Kinders (3-7), Juniors (7-11), Seniors (11-14) |
| Neighbourhood | Dedinje |
| Founded | Not published |
| Students | 250 directory figure |
| Nationalities | 23 directory figure |
| Class size | average 12, maximum 16 directory figure |
| Ownership | Operated by Fondacija “Obrazovanje za Srbiju” (the Education for Serbia Foundation), a non-profit, founded and led by Dr Lana Belić. |
| Website | educa.school |
educa.edu.rs presents an invalid TLS certificate and does not serve the school's site.
The school's own homepage states it is for “children aged 3 to 14 – from English-speaking kindergarten and primary school to lower secondary”, and labels its youngest group Kinders (ages 3-7). No upper-secondary provision: students transfer elsewhere at 14. Source: the school's own page, read 25 August 2026.
Figures marked directory figure come from a third-party directory. The school does not publish them and we have not confirmed them with the school.
Where it is
- Campus – Koste Vojinovića 3, Dedinje
Door-to-door service, charged as an optional extra and priced per day on the school's fees page.
Before school age
EDUCA takes children from 3 into its Kinders. The school describes itself as running “English-speaking kindergarten” from 3, labelling its youngest group Kinders.
It appears alongside the standalone kindergartens on our kindergartens and preschools page, which is the one place in this guide where both kinds of answer sit together.
What the fee covers
EDUCA publishes figures on its own site, on a page its own menu does not link to. That is the school's own page rather than a directory, so we record it as published – but a page you cannot reach from the menu is not a price a family can find, and it names no academic year. What follows is the structure of the cost rather than the amounts. The page carries the site's normal navigation and footer but is not reachable from the menu – the menu's fees page and both “view our fees” buttons lead to an enquiry form instead. The page states no academic year, so we do not present these as 2026/27 figures. A capital fees donation is charged yearly on top of tuition.
Inside the fee. Full curriculum tuition; All textbooks, classroom materials and supplies; Internal assessment fees; External examination fees; An individual account for the learning platform, digital resources and software licences; Extracurricular and enrichment activities; Wellbeing programme; Learning support services; School nurse and counselling; Library resources; Student health insurance; Field trips and educational visits within the city; School celebrations and cultural events; Sports activities and equipment; A one-week summer camp in July or August; Progress reports, school certificate and transcripts.
Separate charges that exist. Meals; Door-to-door transport; Child-minding before or after school; Specialist clubs and courses; Weekend nature retreats; One-to-one tutoring; Gifted child programme; Individual educational plan; Special needs teaching assistant; IT equipment rental.
One-off charges. Deposit at enrolment; Diagnostic testing.
Discounts. Full payment discount ranging from 30% for early birds to 5% before 31 August; Family: 5% for the second child, 10% for the third and subsequent.
Payment plans. Bi-annual: 31 August and 31 January; Monthly: ten instalments, subject to a 10% surcharge.
The school's own fee page: educa.school, checked 24 August 2026.
Getting in
Rolling – the school admits year-round, subject to a place being free.
Testing. Orientation and assessment of academic abilities, learning styles and talents, framed as low-pressure rather than an exam. Optional trial day.
Documents. Child's passport, birth certificate, portrait photo, previous school reports with English translations, parent ID or passport.
Process. Initial contact, personal interview with parents and child, orientation and assessment, then enrolment with a 10% deposit.
Special educational needs
Learning support services are inside tuition. Beyond that the school prices special-needs provision openly: an individual educational plan per term, a special needs teaching assistant per day, and a gifted child programme per term.
Accreditation
| Body | Status | How we treat it |
|---|---|---|
| Serbian Ministry of Education | officially recognised | school's own page |
| Cambridge International | registered under centre number EA104 as a Cambridge International School and as a Cambridge Professional Development Centre, both since 5 March 2024. The registration is held by Fondacija “Obrazovanje za Srbiju”, which owns and runs the school, and Cambridge's school finder lists the centre under that name. Corrected on 25 September 2026: this row previously described only the professional-development registration source | on the body's own register |
- school's own page – Stated by the school on its own site, naming the body. We have not matched it on the body's own register.
- on the body's own register – Stated by the school, and found on the accrediting body's own public register when we searched it.
What stands out
- Health insurance, external examination fees and a one-week summer camp inside tuition
- Non-profit ownership by the Education for Serbia Foundation
- Sensory gardens on campus, with forest classrooms through partnerships nearby
- Publishes prices for special-needs support – the only school in this guide that does
What we are still checking
A directory publishes an annual tuition figure for EDUCA that is implausibly low by two orders of magnitude and appears to be a data error. We do not reproduce it.
Open questions we could not settle from the school's own published pages. We have not yet put these questions to the schools. When we do, the answers will appear here with the date we asked.
- Which Cambridge programmes pupils follow, and in which year groups – the foundation's registration as a Cambridge International School does not say, and the school's academic pages describe Finnish pedagogy
- Which external examinations pupils sit – the fees page includes external examination fees while the academic page names no board
- Whether the fees page figures are current, and for which academic year
- Founding year
Know the answer to any of these, or spot something wrong? Write to hello@thebridgebelgrade.com and we will correct the page and note when we did.