Haarby Efterskole is a private sports efterskole, a boarding school, in the village of Haarby in south-west Funen, between Assens and Faaborg, for grade 10 only. It was founded in 1998 by local enthusiasts led by Henning and Else Madsen and has places for 127 students in 41 rooms, all under one roof. Each student chooses one of five study tracks (Science & Teknologi, Business & Branding, Fitness & Sundhed, International & Global and from 2026-2027 Care & Life Skills) and one of four sports lines (football for boys and girls, handball, dance, badminton); the line trains three times a week, with two more sessions of elective sport, and all students take an assistant coach course in their sport. Lessons lead to the Danish FP10 exam, which is voluntary but recommended by the school. Instead of grades for written work the school uses formative feedback. The International & Global track has three languages (Cambridge English with the IGCSE exam, German with the Goethe exam and beginner Spanish) and the Cambridge subject Global Perspective, taught entirely in English. During the year the whole school goes on a sports week in Barcelona and a ski week in Hemsedal, Norway, and stages a joint show in January.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE · National programme
Languages of instruction
Danish
Languages taught
English, German, Spanish
Registration fee
≈ $76
500 DKK
About the fees An efterskole charges one weekly fee for teaching, accommodation and meals. In 2026-2027 it is 2995 DKK per week, in 2025-2026 2875 DKK and in 2027-2028 3075 DKK; the price page does not state the number of weeks and refers to the Efterskoleforeningen calculator. State support based on household income is deducted. The shared school clothing pack, the sports line kit and the year shirt are paid separately; on the International & Global track Cambridge English and Goethe German cost 30 DKK per week each (exams, certificates and examiners). The first instalment is due on 1 June before the school year.
Admissions Registration is online, several years ahead; an administration fee of 500 DKK is paid on registration and is not refunded. About 20 months before the school year the school asks families to confirm the place and pay an admission fee of 1500 DKK, also non-refundable; after that the place is guaranteed. The school admits to grade 10 only; by Efterskolernes Dag at the end of September almost all places for the next year are taken, so the school advises registering by 1 September the year before. For families living abroad without a Danish CPR number the school has its own page directing them to the Danish immigration service guidance on nyidanmark.dk. There is no separate class for dyslexic students, but the school tests such students and teaches them to use assistive software; students behind in Danish, maths or English get extra lessons.
Stages and year groups Grade 10 only, school year from August to June. Students prepare for the Danish FP10 exam (Danish, maths and English, plus German; the exams are voluntary); each student has a study track and a sports line. Cambridge: the International & Global track has two Cambridge subjects. Cambridge IGCSE English: 2 lessons of 80 minutes a week, in English, with an IGCSE exam of written, listening and speaking parts taken without aids, at a level above FP10; the exam is voluntary, and students also take FP10 English. Global Perspective: a Cambridge subject taught entirely in English; during the year two reports of 1500-2000 words, a group project with people from another country and a written exam of 1 hour 15 minutes, all counting towards the final grade; the website does not name the IGCSE level for this subject directly. According to the website both subjects belong to the International & Global track. The core curriculum is Danish.
Address Assensvej 8, 5683 Haarby
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre: on the International & Global track students take English with the IGCSE exam and Global Perspectives; the exams are optional. The main curriculum is Danish, with the folkeskole exams.
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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: IGCSE (ages 14-16). IGCSE means exams at around Year 10 or 11, the British counterpart of a lower secondary leaving certificate.
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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
·Librarynot stated on the website
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
✓Boarding
Also on site: Sports ground or field
Campus: The whole school is under one roof: 41 rooms for 2-4 students in four sections where boys and girls live door to door, classrooms, a multi-hall, a fitness room and an enlarged dining hall; on the grounds there are football pitches and two beach volleyball courts, plus a pool table. For sport the school uses Haarby Hallerne, the local swimming pool, the tennis club courts and the football club pitches; for electives it has windsurfers with wetsuits and sea kayaks, used in the shallow Helnæs bay. The beach is within cycling distance. At least 30% of the kitchen's ingredients are organic; main meals are compulsory and three snacks optional.
Clubs and activities: Fodbold (football, sports line) · Pigefodbold (girls' football, sports line) · Håndbold (handball, sports line) · Dans (dance, sports line) · Badminton (sports line) · Beachvolley (beach volleyball) · Windsurfing · Havkajak (sea kayaking) · Tennis · Discgolf (disc golf) · Futsal · Flag football · Spikeball · Ultimate · Girls Corner · Krea (creative workshop) · Haarby Tri (school triathlon)
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
✓Number of teachers17
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
The website lists 17 teaching staff, including a dance teacher from the partner studio Allingham Dance Team, and the head of school, a Danish and PE teacher with a diploma in leadership. Cambridge English and Global Perspectives are taught by a teacher with both Danish and English as mother tongues. In 2026 all teaching staff began joint mentor training based on a cognitive behavioural approach, and in 2023-2024 they took the DISPUK contact teacher course. The education counsellors are also teachers at the school.
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 policy
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policy
The school has an anti-bullying strategy, the Me&We social well-being programme, a well-being teacher for individual and group talks and a psychotherapist who visits about every two weeks (the school pays for the first three sessions). Every student has a contact teacher; contact group meetings cover well-being, bullying and phone use, with three individual talks a year. From 21:30 students stay on school grounds, and from 21:45 to 6:00 they stay in their rooms.
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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 data55 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data70 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data70 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data75 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 Value for money (6%) scored at the median83 "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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Haarby, Denmark · est. 1998 · Private