Bulgarsko Shkolo (the private secondary school Bulgarsko Shkolo) is a private, fee-paying day school in Mladost 2, Sofia, for grades 1-12 with a preschool class; together with the private kindergarten Malkoto Shkolo it forms the Bulgarsko Shkolo school complex. The kindergarten opened in 1999 and the school in 2002 with nine first-graders; since 2012 the complex has occupied its own 11200 sq m building, and since 2021 the school has run the upper secondary stage from grade 8 and holds innovative school status (inquiry-based mathematics in grades 5-7). In 2023 the school received positive IB verification for the MYP and describes itself as an authorised IB World School. Teaching follows Bulgarian state standards in Bulgarian: all pages for parents, curricula and admissions are in Bulgarian, and the school describes English as an intensively studied subject (7 lessons a week in grades 1 to 7 and 12 lessons in grade 8, aiming at C1 by the end of high school). A second foreign language (Spanish or German) is taught from grade 8 for 4 lessons a week. High school offers an Entrepreneurship profile and career counselling after grade 10; the preschool class uses elements of Montessori pedagogy.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $8 134–8 981 a year
7 200–7 950 EUR
Programmes
IB · MYP · National programme
Admits from
3 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Bulgarian
Languages taught
English, Spanish, German
About the fees Annual fees for 2026-2027: preschool class 7950 euro, grades 1-6 7200 euro, grades 7-12 7200 euro (the complex kindergarten is also 7950 euro). Fees include teaching to state standards, textbooks and workbooks, a uniform set, the psychologist, resource teacher and speech therapist, medical care, insurance and round-the-clock security, and in grades 1-6 interest classes until 17:00. Meals, transport, trips, green and white schools, exam and competition fees, and in grades 7-12 activities after 14:00 are not included. Families with more than one child in the complex get a 5% discount per child.
Admissions Admission steps: registration for an open day, attending the meeting, a questionnaire for the admission day, taking part in the admission day, then feedback from the school and an enrolment application. The school does not state exams, knowledge requirements or conditions for foreigners on its site.
Stages and year groups A preschool class with elements of Montessori; primary stage in grades 1-4, lower secondary in grades 5-7, upper secondary in grades 8-12 on Bulgarian state standards leading to the Bulgarian secondary school diploma. The IB MYP framework: according to the high school page and the fee terms, in grades 8-10, with a compulsory personal project in grade 10. Montessori groups for children aged 3-5 belong to the Malkoto Shkolo kindergarten in the same complex.
Address ul. General-Mayor Vasil Delov 10, Mladost 2, Sofia
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · MYP · authorised programmeThe IB register lists the school as an IB World School (registered as Bulgarsko Shkolo Private Secondary School); on its website the school describes the Middle Years Programme, taught alongside the Bulgarian national programme.
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
IBInternational Baccalaureate
A Swiss non-profit, working since 1968. Its programmes are among the most widely recognised school programmes in the world. Authorisation is granted stage by stage, so a school with the final stage does not necessarily run the younger ones; which stages this school holds is set out in the line below.
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: MYP (ages 11-16). MYP is the middle stage, ages 11 to 16. There are no exams here either; at the end an optional electronic assessment of pupils' work is possible.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →National programme
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
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
✓Laboratories
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
·Librarynot stated on the website
✓Catering
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Clubs and activities: Creative writing · Engineering · Competitive mathematics · Singing and acting · Applied arts · Tasty geography · Folk dance · Track and field · Basketball · Swimming
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
The school says its teachers keep learning and that it attracts young specialists and helps them enter the profession; the complex has a psychologist, a speech therapist and a resource teacher. The site does not state the number or qualifications of teachers.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
·CCTVnot stated on the website
✓Security staff
·Access controlnot stated on the website
✓Nurse or medical room
✓Counsellor
✓Child protection policy
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
Round-the-clock security, medical staff, and a team of a psychologist, resource teacher and speech therapist; the school has an online safety and cybersecurity policy, an inclusion policy and a code of ethics.
Reviews
No reviews yet. The community rating counts towards the score once a school has five verified reviews - until then we do not show a zero, so as not to mislead.
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 data80 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 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.
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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Sofia, Bulgaria · est. 2002 · Private