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Amstelveen, Netherlands · State
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Amstelland International School (AIS) is a state-funded international school in Amstelveen, so its fees are much lower than those of private international schools. It serves families living in the Netherlands temporarily. The primary school follows the International Primary Curriculum (IPC) inspired by Reggio Emilia; since July 2023 AIS has been an accredited Cambridge International School and uses the Cambridge Early Years and Cambridge Primary English curricula. The school is currently an IB candidate school for the Primary Years Programme and is transitioning from the IPC to the PYP. In August 2026 a secondary school opened, following the International Middle Years Curriculum (IMYC) on the Hermann Wesselink College campus; in 2026-2027 the school plans to apply for IB MYP candidacy. The language of instruction is English; Dutch language and culture are taught two hours a week, and there is a Dutch Extension Program for students moving into Dutch education. The team has 28 staff of more than 19 nationalities, and classes have at most 22 students.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $6 214 a year
5 500 EUR
Programmes
Cambridge · Early Years, Primary · IPC · IMYC
Languages of instruction
English
Class size
at most 22 students per class
Registration fee
≈ $226
200 EUR
About the fees The annual tuition fee for 2026-2027 is 5500 EUR, the same for primary and secondary; the school notes that secondary fees will be higher in future years. The fee includes field trips, excursions, school camps, Forest School and English and Dutch language support. It must be paid in full before the first day of school; mid-year starters pay pro rata by start month. There is a fee reduction for families with three or more children.
Admissions The school is state-funded and admits students under Dutch rules for international schools: children of internationally mobile families who will reside in the Netherlands for a limited period, typically between three and five years (Dutch and non-Dutch nationals); children of Dutch families who have lived abroad or are expected to move abroad within the next two years; children who have received an international education and need a transition period before entering the Dutch system. Steps: a registration of interest form, the two most recent school reports and copies of all family passports; if the family meets the criteria, young children are invited to a social play morning and older children's applications are reviewed by the Director, who decides. Applications are open all year, including holidays. For children with a diagnosis and an individual plan, the documents must be shared with the school.
Stages and year groups Primary school from groep 1 (from age 4): International Primary Curriculum (IPC), Numicon maths, English through the Cambridge Early Years and Cambridge Primary English curricula (the school has been accredited by Cambridge International since July 2023), Dutch language and culture, PE and Forest School. The school is an IB PYP candidate and is moving from the IPC to the PYP. Secondary school since August 2026: the International Middle Years Curriculum (IMYC), six transdisciplinary units a year, taught on the Hermann Wesselink College campus; after authorisation the school plans to move to the IB MYP. Before the secondary school opened, primary graduates usually moved to the international stream of Hermann Wesselink College and other international schools in the region.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · Early Years, Primary · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre: in the primary school English follows Cambridge Early Years and Cambridge Primary. The rest of the curriculum is IPC and IMYC.
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CambridgeCambridge International Education
Part of the University of Cambridge. It allows a school to teach the Cambridge programmes and to enter pupils for the exams. There are four stages and they are authorised separately: primary, lower secondary, IGCSE and A Level. If the stages are known they are named in the line below; if that line is missing, the school does not publish them, and the Cambridge registry does not show stages either - it gives only the name of the centre, the country and whether private candidates are accepted. Cambridge calls what it does registration rather than accreditation, and the network holds about ten thousand schools.
What the badge means for this school. The school is allowed to run this programme and to award its certificate. This is a confirmation of the programme, not a judgement on the school as a whole. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it. At this school: Early Years (ages 3-6), Primary (ages 5-11). Early Years is the nursery stage, ages 3 to 6. There are no exams at the end: the stage describes what the youngest children are taught and how, and it follows the Cambridge frame rather than a national nursery programme. Primary is the primary stage, ages 5 to 11: English, mathematics and science to Cambridge syllabuses. At the end of the stage a school may run the optional Checkpoint test, which is marked in Cambridge.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →IPC
International Primary Curriculum: a British primary school programme for children aged 5 to 11. It teaches through themes that draw subjects together rather than through separate subjects; it is published by the International Curriculum Association, formerly Fieldwork Education.
What this means for this school. This is a programme for the primary stage, not an accreditation of the school: the organisation sells it to schools and trains their teachers, but it does not check the quality of teaching at a particular school and keeps no public register of the schools working to it. There is no outside register to check it against, so the entry comes from the school's own words or from the record of its accrediting organisation. The programme has no leaving certificate: at the end of primary school a child moves on to the middle stage, and it is that stage which decides what they finish with.
IMYC
International Middle Years Curriculum: the continuation of IPC for the middle school, ages 11 to 14. The same organisation and the same thematic frame, only for teenagers.
What this means for this school. As with IPC, this is a programme for one stage rather than an accreditation of the school, and the organisation keeps no public register of the schools working to it. The entry comes from the school's own words or from the record of its accrediting organisation. The programme has no leaving certificate of its own: after it the school takes a pupil on to a final stage - IGCSE, A-Level, IB or a national programme - and that is what to look at.
Exams and destinations from the school's official website
The school publishes nothing about where its leavers go: no share going on to university, no exam results, no list of universities.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
✓Sports hall
✓Laboratories
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Art studio · Playground
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
✓Teacher qualifications
·Number of teachersthe school does not say
✓Students per teacher or class sizein the key facts above
What the listings show: native or near-native English, Dutch or UK teaching qualification and 3-5 years of international school experience are required
The team has 28 staff of more than 19 nationalities. Each primary class has a qualified primary teacher; in groep 1-3 a second qualified teacher co-teaches as a teaching assistant; Dutch language and culture, English language acquisition and PE are taught by specialists. Secondary subjects are taught by subject specialists. Hiring requires police clearance from the Netherlands and every country of employment and two references.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
·CCTVnot stated on the website
·Security staffnot stated on the website
·Access controlnot stated on the website
·Nurse or medical roomnot stated on the website
·Counsellornot stated on the website
✓Child protection policy
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policy
The school has an anti-bullying policy, a medical protocol and an emergency protocol; child safeguarding is called a priority, and all job candidates undergo police clearance. There are internal and external confidentiality representatives for parents and staff, the school board's complaints commission and a parent and staff council. The school works with speech therapists, occupational therapists and a child psychologist.
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)72 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data55 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data65 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data70 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data55 "Scored on disclosed data" stands where we count only what the school has written about itself on its own site: exams and destinations, safety and wellbeing, teaching staff, facilities, clubs and activities. A low score here means the school does not write about this, not that the school does not have it: a school with good security and a sparse site will score low. A school can fill in its profile, and the score will be counted again.
The score is counted from 8 of the 9 criteria.Only those with checkable data count: programmes and accreditations from official registers, the fee from a published price list. Where it says "scored on the median", the school has no data and the middle of the list is put in its place, so that a gap gives no advantage. Admissions, teaching staff and reviews come in as their data arrives.
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