FRAM School is a private school in central Sibiu that grew out of the Fram Early Learning kindergarten, opened in 2014; the primary school has operated since 2022. It is a Cambridge International School and a recognised Romanian school with two lines: the English line (EYFS, Reception and Year 1-5, following Cambridge Primary and the National Curriculum for England, taught in English) and the Romanian line (kindergarten, preparatory class and grades 1-4 following the national curriculum, taught in Romanian), each enriched with subjects from the other. The school opens a new year group each year; Key Stage 3 is planned for 2026-2027 and, in future, up to grade 12 and Year 13. School life is organised in three pillars: academics, welfare and pastoral care, and skills and events; there is a system of four houses named after explorers. The school is open from 8:00 to 16:30, compulsory lessons end at 15:15, and clubs are included in the fee. The kindergarten is accredited by ARACIP, and the primary school is authorised.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $8 191 a year
7 250 EUR
Programmes
Cambridge · Primary · National programme
Admits from
2 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
English, Romanian
Registration fee
≈ $565
500 EUR
About the fees The complete primary school programme costs 7250 euro for the 2026-2027 academic year. The fee covers lessons until 15:15, clubs and houses Monday to Thursday from 15:30 to 16:15, a standard daily lunch, all school supplies and printed textbooks, and the summer school during July. The page gives no kindergarten fees.
Admissions To apply, families contact the school and complete the admission form on the website; the school holds open house days. Under the assessment policy, CAT4 cognitive ability tests are used in the admissions process. Children who are still learning English receive ESL support.
Stages and year groups English line: EYFS and Reception, then Year 1-5 following Cambridge Primary and the National Curriculum for England (in 2025-2026 the oldest group is Year 5); the school plans Key Stage 3 from 2026-2027 and in future IGCSE in Year 10-11 and AS and A Level in Year 12-13, plus Checkpoint exams in Year 9. Romanian line: nursery and kindergarten, preparatory class and grades 1-4 following the national curriculum with Cambridge elements in English, ICT, Global Perspectives and Science; in future lower and upper secondary with the Evaluarea Națională and bacalaureat. Both lines include Philosophy for Children (years 1-3) and Drama.
Address Habermann Learning Campus, Strada Berăriei 4, Sibiu
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · Primary · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre. The English line follows Cambridge Primary and the Romanian line the 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
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). 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.
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 hall
·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
Also on site: Playground
Campus: The school occupies the 1000 m² Habermann Learning Campus in central Sibiu: a bright open-space building with a sports hall, a cafeteria, a library and an outdoor playground with a painted track where children ride bikes and scooters imitating real traffic. Classrooms are equipped with materials and technology. There is no boarding.
Clubs and activities: Japanese Club · Choir · Crafts · Graffiti · Painting · Coding · Electronics · Dance · Kinetics Club · Ski Club · LEGO · Outdoors Club · Chess · Rubik's cube
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 website lists class teachers, teachers of English, Science, Music, Art, PE, French and Drama, Philosophy for Children and teaching assistants; the Head of Academics is Simona Dică, the Head of Primary is Mariana Bolotă and the Headmaster is Tiberiu Popescu. The school says it hires exceptional educators and empowers them in their work.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
·CCTVnot stated on the website
·Security staffnot stated on the website
✓Access control
✓Nurse or medical room
✓Counsellor
✓Child protection policy
✓Staff training
✓Anti-bullying policy
The school has a safeguarding policy following Romanian child protection law and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; the Designated Safety Lead is Marieluise Knobloch, Head of Welfare and Pastoral Care, and staff receive regular child protection training. The campus is secured: children enter only through the front gate, side entrances are locked, parents sign children in and out, only authorised adults may collect a child, and drills are held regularly. A school nurse or designated medical staff member is available during school hours, and there is a school counsellor. There are separate anti-bullying, behaviour, physical contact and lockdown policies.
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 data90 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 "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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Sibiu, Romania · est. 2014 · Private