← Back to the rankingInternationale Deutsche Schule Bukarest
Bucharest, Romania · est. 2007 · Private
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Internationale Deutsche Schule Bukarest (iDSBU, formerly Deutsche Schule Bukarest) is a private German school abroad in Bucharest for children from 18 months to 18 years: crèche, kindergarten, primary school and Gymnasium under one roof. The school has run since 2007, teaches strictly to the curricula of the German state of Baden-Württemberg, is recognised by the Central Agency for German Schools Abroad (ZfA) on behalf of the German Foreign Office and is a member of the World Association of German Schools Abroad (WDA); it says it is the only school in Romania teaching exclusively to the German curriculum. Lessons in primary and Gymnasium are in German; Romanian is taught both as a mother tongue and as a foreign language, English and French as foreign languages. Graduates receive the Mittlere Reife and the Deutsches Internationales Abitur, giving access to universities in Germany and elsewhere; the school says its qualifications are recognised by both Germany and Romania. The school calls itself a school of encounter: children from German-speaking, Romanian and international families learn here. Most teachers are native German speakers, some placed by the ZfA. In 2026 the school's average Abitur grade was 1,7.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $8 416–18 979 a year
7 450–16 800 EUR
Programmes
German programme
Admits from
18 months · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
German
Languages taught
Romanian, English, French
Registration fee
≈ $1 130
1 000 EUR
About the fees Annual fees for 2026-2027. Kindergarten: until 12:30 7450 euro, until 15:00 8925 euro, until 16:30 9975 euro, until 18:00 10400 euro. School until 15:00/16:00: primary 14175 euro, grades 5-9 14500 euro, grades 10-12 14900 euro; with after-school care until 18:00 16800 euro (grades 1-9). Fees are paid in three parts: by 15 March (4 months), by 15 August and by 15 December (3 months each). Meals are included. Sibling discounts: 5% on each of two children, 10% on the third.
Admissions Before entry the school runs tests: a school-readiness test for grade 1, a German placement test for all grades if needed, and an essay from grade 3. Kindergarten admission is decided by its leadership after an interview with parents and child to establish the family's language background; children with special needs can attend if the school can meet them. The school is open to students transferring from other systems and to children whose first language is not Romanian: they get 2 hours of Romanian as a foreign language a week. The registration fee is 1000 euro for the school and 800 euro for the kindergarten. For grades 9-11 the school awards scholarships covering fees until Abitur after an interview and a German test.
Stages and year groups Grades Krippe, Kindergarten, 1-12. Crèche (mixed group ages 2-3, settling in from 1 year 10 months), kindergarten (ages 3-5) and pre-school group from age 5, following the Baden-Württemberg plan for kindergartens at German schools abroad. Grundschule (grades 1-4) and Gymnasium (grades 5-12) follow the Baden-Württemberg curricula, plus Romanian: 4 hours as a mother tongue under Romanian Ministry of Education rules or 2 hours as a foreign language. After grade 10 come the Mittlere Reife and entry to the upper stage; grades 11-12 are the qualification phase leading to the Deutsches Internationales Abitur (DIA) with five exams, German compulsory. The first Mittlere Reife was taken in 2016 and the first Abitur in the 2018/2019 school year.
Address Str. Coralilor 20G, 013328 București (Sector 1)
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
ZfA · accreditationWDA · part of the alliancePASCH · takes part in the programmeThe Central Agency for German Schools Abroad (ZfA) lists the school as a German school abroad (Deutsche Auslandsschule; registered as Deutsche Schule Bukarest). Graduates sit the German International Abitur (DIA). The school is a member of the World Association of German Schools Abroad (WDA) and of the PASCH network.
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
ZfACentral Agency for German Schools Abroad
A German federal agency. It recognises a school as a German school abroad, funds it and grants the right to award the German leaving certificate. Quality is examined by a state inspection about once every six years, and schools that pass receive the mark of an excellent German school abroad.
What the badge means for this school. The school has been through this organisation's accreditation. It was judged as a whole: governance, safeguarding, staff, premises, teaching. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →WDAWorld Association of German Schools Abroad
An association of the owners of German schools abroad: in essence an industry lobby and a service organisation. It runs no inspections. The condition of admission is a recognised German certificate, but that recognition is granted by the German state, not by WDA.
What the badge means for this school. The school belongs to an association of school owners. There is no inspection of its own behind it: the badge rests on a decision of the German state and adds nothing to it. The entry is confirmed in the organisation's open directory.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →PASCHSchools: Partners for the Future, an initiative of the German foreign ministry
More than two thousand schools in about 120 countries. A school cannot apply for itself: participants are chosen by German agencies in agreement with the embassy. Very different schools sit under one mark - full German schools abroad, and ordinary national schools that simply teach German well.
What the badge means for this school. The school belongs to a German support programme. By itself the mark means neither a German curriculum nor the right to award a German certificate: of the two thousand PASCH schools, about seventeen hundred hold no such right. Look for a ZfA status next to it - that is the one that is about this. The entry is confirmed in the organisation's open directory.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →German programme
The German school programme. Recognised German schools abroad award the Deutsches Internationales Abitur, the German leaving certificate used for entry to universities in Germany. Behind the recognition stands the federal agency ZfA.
What this means for this school. ZfA recognition comes at levels: a school that takes pupils through to the German leaving certificate is one thing, a school with the DSD language diploma, where German is taught as a subject, is another. Which level this school holds is not stated here.
Exams and destinations from the school's official website
Exam results Deutsches Internationales Abitur 2026: average grade 1,7 against a German average of 2,2; five years ago the school average was 2,2. Abitur 2024: all 9 candidates passed, average grade 2,1. On the German scale 1 is the highest grade.
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 transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field · Art studio · Playground
Clubs and activities: Musikschule (music school: instrument and voice) · UN-Debate Thessaloniki (UN-style debates with the German School of Thessaloniki) · Robotik (robotics) · Streitschlichter (peer mediators) · SchülerInnen helfen SchülerInnen (students helping students)
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
Most teachers and kindergarten staff are native German speakers; the staff consists of locally hired teachers and teachers placed by the ZfA. The school has a head, a deputy head, primary school heads, a coordinator for grades 5-9, subject teachers of German, Romanian, English, French, mathematics, sciences, art, music and sport, and volunteers from the German social year programme. Teachers take regular professional development, and the school has concepts for staff training and peer lesson observation.
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 room
✓Counsellor
✓Child protection policy
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
A school doctor and a nurse work Monday to Friday, along with a school psychologist and three social pedagogues. The school has concepts for child protection, safety, prevention of violence and addiction, and inclusion; a peer mediation programme lets students resolve conflicts themselves. Kindergarten children are handed over and collected only in person from staff, and fire and earthquake evacuation drills take place twice a year.
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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 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 data80 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data73 "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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