Kindcentrum De Binck is a Dutch primary school (basisschool) combined with daycare and after-school care in the Binckhorst area of Den Haag, for children aged 0 to 13; the school groups are for ages 4-12. Teaching follows the Dutch national learning lines but is organised differently: children learn in mixed-age open domains with a home-group mentor and work within the IB Primary Years Programme, for which, according to its guide, the school has been authorised since May 2025. English is taught at least once a week in every domain. The centre is interdenominational, celebrates festivals of different cultures and has a diverse population. The school is growing: there are places at every age, with up to 28 children per age group. Closure of the school was discussed in the previous school year, but the school says it will stay open; it asks no parental contribution.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · PYP · National programme
Admits from
4 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Dutch
Class size
up to 28 children per age group
About the fees Education is free: it is a state-funded Dutch primary school, and it currently asks no voluntary parental contribution (ouderbijdrage); all children take part in all activities. Daycare and after-school care are paid separately under a contract with Vlietkinderen.
Admissions Children are registered for primary school through the central Den Haag procedure: around their third birthday families receive a card with a form and submit it in the set period; up to 28 children are admitted per age group (year of birth), and if there are too many applications a lottery is held through the city procedure. If a child needs support the school cannot provide, it looks for a suitable place together with the parents; the admission decision is taken within 6 weeks. Transfers from another primary school follow set steps: introduction, a written application with a form, information from the previous school, and a decision. Before school, children aged 0 to 4 can attend the centre's daycare. The site gives no separate rules for foreign children.
Stages and year groups A Dutch primary school (basisschool, groups 1-8) following the national SLO learning lines, organised within the IB Primary Years Programme: six transdisciplinary Units of Inquiry, concepts, skills and action, and the IB learner profile. Domain 2/3 covers ages 4-7 (groups 1-3), domain 4/5 ages 7-12 (groups 4-8); domain 1 is daycare for children under 4. At the end of primary school all pupils take the compulsory Dutch final test (doorstroomtoets). Teaching is in Dutch, with English at least once a week in every domain.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · PYP · authorised programmeThe school is listed in the IB register and runs the Primary Years Programme. It is a Dutch state primary school.
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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: PYP (ages 3-12). PYP is the primary stage, ages 3 to 12. It is not a set of subjects but a frame for the whole school: learning is built around lines of inquiry, and there are no exams at the end.
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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
✓Library
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Art studio · Makerspace
Campus: The kindcentrum combines a primary school with daycare and after-school care under one roof and is open from 7:30 to 18:30; lessons run from 8:30 to 14:00. It is currently in a temporary building on Sint Barbaraweg in the Binckhorst area; a new building shared with the John Dewey college and the public library is planned for 2030. Instead of classrooms there are domains: large, light open spaces about the size of four classrooms without walls, with ateliers, building and discovery corners and quiet spots; there is a library, a play hall for PE and a makerspace, the children's favourite place. Daycare for children under 4 and after-school care from 14:00 to 18:30 are run by partner Vlietkinderen under a separate contract.
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 sizein the key facts above
The team is shared between school and after-school care: the school leader, the Vlietkinderen site manager, a support coordinator, a PYP coordinator, a mentor for each home group, teaching assistants who work in after-school care after 14:00, and a PE teacher for all school domains. Groups in the middle and upper domains are small. The school does not publish teacher numbers or qualifications.
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
·Counsellornot stated on the website
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The school sees feeling socially safe as a condition for learning: bullying is not accepted, conflicts are talked through with the children, and the IB learner profile values are discussed every day. The support coordinator monitors each child's continuous development; where needed a support plan is drawn up and external specialists are involved.
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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 data55 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 data55 "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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