← Back to the rankingAvalon International School
Miskolc, Hungary · est. 2019 · Private
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Avalon International School (AIS) is a private, fee-paying day school with a nursery in Miskolc, opened in September 2019 and operated by the AVALON Nemzetközi Iskola Alapítvány foundation. The school calls itself the first independent private school in Miskolc teaching Cambridge Assessment International Education programmes. The nursery follows the British EYFS early years programme (as promoted by the NDNA) and Cambridge Early Years; the school follows Cambridge Primary (Year 1-6) and Cambridge Lower Secondary (Year 7-9). The website also describes the next steps: Cambridge Upper Secondary with IGCSE exams (Year 10-11) and Cambridge Advanced with AS and A Level (Year 12-13), but fees are published only up to Lower Secondary. The language of instruction is English, taught by native speakers; Hungarian as a mother tongue is taught by Hungarian teachers. Nursery groups and classes have up to 16 children.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $7 012–9 165 a year
228 000–298 000 HUF a month
The year is counted as ten payments: the school does not say how many payments it takes.
Programmes
Cambridge · Early Years, Primary, Lower Secondary
Admits from
3 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
English
Languages taught
Hungarian
Class size
up to 16 children per nursery group and up to 16 students per class
Registration fee
≈ $154
50 000 HUF
About the fees Fees for 2025-2026 per month: nursery - 228000 forints, primary school - 288000 forints, Lower Secondary - 298000 forints. The nursery fee includes hygiene products, bedsheets and towels; the school fee includes books, notebooks and supplies. The school does not state the number of payments per year; prices for the IGCSE and A Level stages are not published.
Admissions The admission steps are described for the nursery and the school: parents fill in the online application form and transfer the non-refundable 50000 forint fee, then the school arranges a conversation with the family about its values and programme and informs them in writing of enrolment or a place on the waiting list. The nursery takes children aged 3-5 and the school from age 6. The school states no English requirement; extra English lessons after school help children who need to catch up. The website does not say whether the school accepts foreign children.
Stages and year groups Grades Early Years, Year 1-9. Nursery (ages 3-6): the British EYFS programme as promoted by the NDNA and Cambridge Early Years, groups of up to 16 children, a native English-speaking teacher and a Hungarian nursery teacher. Cambridge Primary (Year 1-6): 11 subjects including English, mathematics and science. Cambridge Lower Secondary (Year 7-9, the first stage of the gimnázium): more than 10 subjects. The website also lists Cambridge Upper Secondary with IGCSE (Year 10-11) and Cambridge International AS & A Level (Year 12-13); fees for 2025-2026 are published only for the nursery, primary school and Lower Secondary. Hungarian as a mother tongue is taught by Hungarian teachers.
Address Forrás u. 1., 3516 Miskolc
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · Early Years, Primary, Lower Secondary · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre: kindergarten, Cambridge Primary and Cambridge Lower Secondary.
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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), Lower Secondary (ages 11-14). 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. Lower Secondary is the middle stage, ages 11 to 14, with the same optional Checkpoint test at the end.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →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 hallnot stated on the website
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Clubs and activities: Football · Basketball · Tennis · Piano · Drums · Guitar · Chess · Ball Room Dancing · Folk Dancing · Art Club
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 sizein the key facts above
Native English-speaking teachers teach in the nursery and the school; Hungarian is taught by Hungarian teachers, and each nursery group has a native English-speaking teacher and a Hungarian nursery teacher. The school is recruiting KS2 and KS3 teachers.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
The school says nothing on its website about security, medical care or pupil support.
Reviews
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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 data55 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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