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Bratislava, Slovakia · Private
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Brilliant Stars International School is a small private school with a kindergarten in Petržalka, from Nursery (from age 2.5) to Year 9 (about age 14). All classes are exclusively in English and most teachers are native speakers or have C1 qualifications, as the school states directly. The programme combines Cambridge (Cambridge Primary and Lower Secondary), the Montessori method, the British Jolly Phonics in the kindergarten and the school's own Character Building Programme, with a strong focus on the environment, music and healthy food. The primary and lower secondary school are registered with the Slovak Ministry of Education, so students can transfer to any Slovak school. The founder is Venus Jahanpour; students and staff come from over 30 countries (another page says 39). The school reports a 6:1 student-staff ratio.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · Primary, Lower Secondary
Admits from
2.5 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
English
Languages taught
German, Slovak
Class size
small classes, the school gives no exact number
Registration fee
≈ $565
500 EUR
About the fees The annual fee table on the admissions page (no year on the table, next to the 2026-2027 calendar): kindergarten 9630 euros, Year 2 10120 euros, Year 3 10505 euros, Year 4 10848 euros, Year 5 11202 euros, Year 6 11586 euros, Year 7 11940 euros, Year 8 12304 euros, Year 9 12866 euros, in three termly instalments. The school says fees increase by approximately 4% annually.
Admissions Applications are accepted all year while places are available; the number of students per grade is limited. Families fill in an enquiry form, then visit with the child for a friendly informal knowledge check; for international students there is first an online call, with a visit after arrival. School applicants provide last year's reports and any psychological evaluations. The youngest nursery children may start with a one-month part-time schedule. Decisions are made on a rolling basis.
Stages and year groups Grades Nursery, Reception, Year 1-9. Kindergarten: Nursery (ages 2.5-4), Reception (ages 4-5) and Year 1 (ages 5-6), fully in English, Montessori, Jolly Phonics and character building. Primary Years 2-6 (ages 6-11) follow Cambridge Primary with Montessori: English as a first language, maths, science, music, art, digital literacy and programming, character building, global studies and RE. Lower Secondary Years 7-9 (ages 11-14) follow Cambridge Lower Secondary: English, maths, biology, chemistry and physics, music, art, history, geography, computer science, German as a second language and Slovak for Slovak-speaking learners. There are no upper secondary years (IGCSE, A Level). The kindergarten day is 8:30-15:30, school 8:15-15:00, care 8:00-17:00.
Address Vavilovova 18, 851 01 Bratislava
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · Primary, Lower Secondary · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as a Cambridge centre (recorded as Brilliant Stars Primary School). The school runs up to Year 9.
school is in an official registryconfirmed by a school document, by membership or by taking part in a networkclaimed by the school, no confirmation, not counted in the scoreGuide to all organisations → What stands behind each entry
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: Primary (ages 5-11), Lower Secondary (ages 11-14). 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 hall
✓Laboratories
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field · Art studio · Playground
Clubs and activities: Chess · Math · Logic & Coding · Robotics · Poetry · Drama & Film · Yoga · Ballet · Tennis · Gymnastics · Team Sports · Ceramics · Upcycling · Home Economics · Eco-club · School Orchestra
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: Teachers are native English and Slovak speakers, trained in-house in Character Education and Montessori, with international school experience.
The school reports a 6:1 student-staff ratio. Teachers are supported by in-house specialists: a Montessori expert, a special educator and speech therapist, a psychologist and an education consultant. Instrumental music is taught by in-house teachers, many with a PhD; over 80% of students learn an instrument.
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
✓Counsellor
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
An in-house psychologist, a special educator and a speech therapist work at the school. The director keeps an open-door policy for parents. The school does not publish a separate child protection policy or a description of building security on the pages checked.
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 data60 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data75 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 Value for money (6%) scored at the median75 "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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