Antoniuscollege Gouda is a Dutch state-funded (bekostigd) havo and vwo secondary school in Gouda, an open Catholic school. Students choose one of three routes: bilingual education (tweetalig onderwijs, TTO), where more than half of the subjects are taught in English from the first year; the Technasium with the subject Onderzoek & Ontwerpen - research and design projects for real clients; or Kunst & Maatschappij with projects combining art and society. Everyone takes the final exams in Dutch, but TTO students in the upper years study English through IB courses (English B at havo, English A Language and Literature at vwo) and at vwo take the subject Cambridge Global Perspectives and Independent Research; optionally they sit Cambridge Advanced or Proficiency, and DELF and Goethe for French and German. In the first year there are Top Talent Tijd electives twice a week. The school takes part in Erasmus+ and sends TTO students on an international work placement; there is a programme for gifted students.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · A-Level · National programme
Languages of instruction
Dutch, English
Languages taught
French, German
About the fees Education is free; textbooks and learning materials are paid for by the state. The school asks for a voluntary parental contribution for 2026-2027: usually 50 EUR per year for excursions, 210 EUR in the first year including the first-year camp, 85 EUR in the second year and 440 EUR in the final year including the exam trip. Electives are charged on participation: theatre class, musical, Goethe and DELF certificates, Erasmus+ trip. The TTO route has an additional contribution: 85 EUR per year (145 EUR in upper vwo), exams, a 400 EUR first-year TTO trip to Great Britain and other activities. Not paying the voluntary contribution does not exclude a child from activities.
Admissions The school admits first-year students with a primary school recommendation of havo, havo/vwo or vwo; registration is online only during the national registration week at the end of March, signed via iDIN. Admission to higher years goes through the team leader. For the bilingual TTO route the child is invited to an introduction: a lesson in English and a short presentation to a small group; excellent English is not required, motivation matters. The school's website does not address the admission of foreign children; for newcomers to the Netherlands the board runs a separate school, ISK Gouda, with an intake interview and test.
Stages and year groups Grades 1-5 havo, 1-6 vwo. Dutch curriculum: the first year by recommendation (havo, havo/vwo, vwo, and bilingual TTO havo, TTO havo/vwo and TTO vwo), then havo (5 years, eindexamen havo) or vwo (6 years, eindexamen vwo). Routes: TTO - more than half of the subjects in English in the lower years (except mathematics, economics, Dutch and other foreign languages), with extra subjects bilingual attitude and Global Citizenship; in 4-5 havo the two-year IB English B Higher Level course with a separate certificate, at vwo English at Cambridge Advanced level in year 4, and in years 5-6 IB English Language and Literature A and the subject Cambridge Global Perspectives and Independent Research (GPR), whose report can count as the final project. Technasium - the subject Onderzoek & Ontwerpen from year 2, a certificate after 3 years and the Meesterproef exam project. Kunst & Maatschappij - projects in years 2-3.
Address John Mottstraat 2-4, 2806 HP Gouda
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · A-Level · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre: on the bilingual vwo track senior students take the Cambridge Global Perspectives and Independent Research course at AS level. The main curriculum is Dutch.
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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: A-Level (ages 16-18). A-Level is the senior years, and their results are what British and many other universities admit on.
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The state school programme of the country the school stands in: it is set by that country's ministry of education, which also licenses the school and awards the leaving certificate. That certificate is used for entry to local universities, and abroad it is matched to the local one.
What this means for this school. This entry does not count towards the score, and that is deliberate. Every lawful school in a country works to the national programme, so on its own it tells one school apart from no other - unlike the French, German or Russian programmes, which are carried abroad and confirmed by the register of their organisation. We show it because a parent needs to know what programme their child is taught and what certificate the child will get. Counting it would lift the whole ranking at once and still tell nobody apart.
Exams and destinations from the school's official website
Exam results Share of students passing the Dutch final exam: 2025 - vwo 81%, havo 85%; 2024 - vwo 99%, havo 87%; 2023 - vwo 94%, havo 91%; 2022 - vwo 98%, havo 98%. TTO students also take IB English exams and optionally Cambridge Advanced and Proficiency.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
·Sports hallnot stated on the website
✓Laboratories
✓Theatre or assembly hall
·Librarynot stated on the website
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Art studio · Makerspace
Clubs and activities: Theaterklas (drama class) · Musical · Muziekavonden (music evenings) · Bètaworld (science experiments) · Fotografie (photography) · Kunst & Ontwerp (art and design) · LEGO robots · Media & Spel (media and game making) · Muziek & Produceren (music and production) · Onderzoekslab (research lab and electronics) · Sport & Bewegen (sport and movement) · Techniek (technology) · Erasmus+ uitwisseling (Erasmus+ exchange)
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
·Number of teachersthe school does not say
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
TTO is taught by specially trained and certified teachers. Every student has a mentor, and each year group has a team leader and student coordinators; there are support and gifted-programme coordinators. The school is a teacher training school of Carmelcollege Gouda. The school does not publish staff numbers, qualifications or class sizes.
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 training
✓Anti-bullying policy
The school has a safety plan and site rules, an anti-bullying protocol and several anti-bullying coordinators; the mentor is the first contact for bullying. Each site has confidential advisors trained to work with students and parents, and complaints are handled by the Stichting Carmelcollege commission. Protective equipment is mandatory in practical lessons; the school has accident insurance.
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)82 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data80 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data70 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data65 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 "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.
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