Liceul Teoretic Little London, also known as Little London International Academy (LLI Academy), is a private day school in Voluntari, north of Bucharest: kindergarten from age 3, primary, lower secondary and high school. The school says it has more than 20 years of experience; it has offered the full school cycle since 2014, opened its high school in 2016, and the first high school class graduated in 2020. The core is the Romanian national curriculum taught in Romanian; the school runs the IB Primary Years Programme in kindergarten and primary, and kindergarten is taught in English. The Ministry of Education accredited the primary, lower secondary and high school levels in 2021. English is taught intensively: 10 hours a week in primary, 4-8 hours in lower secondary, 4 hours in high school in level groups; French or German is added from grade 3. Since 2012 the school has been a Cambridge English exam centre in partnership with EECentre, and students sit the exams in their own building. The high school is accredited for social sciences and authorised for natural sciences and mathematics-informatics.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · PYP · National programme
Admits from
3 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Romanian, English
Languages taught
French, German
Class size
up to 20 children in kindergarten
Registration fee
≈ $678
600 EUR
About the fees The fee list does not state a year. The school publishes annual tuition: kindergarten 4000, 5000 or 6000 euro (until 12:00, 15:00 or 16:00), primary 8000 or 9000 euro (until 15:00 or 16:00), lower secondary 9000 or 10000 euro (until 14:00 or 16:00), high school 10000 euro (until 14:00). Mandatory extras: an administrative fee of 700 euro, educational resources of 400 euro in kindergarten and 600 euro in school, and meals of 1500 euro in kindergarten and 1900 euro in primary and in the extended lower secondary programme; in total from 5100 to 13200 euro a year. Supervision until 17:00 costs 500 euro a year. Discounts: 5% for annual payment, 3% for payment in three instalments, 10% for siblings; payment in 10 monthly instalments is possible.
Admissions Admission takes five steps: a school visit, an adaptation day for the child in class, an application (confirmed within 3 working days, or a waiting list if there are no places), documents (birth certificate, parents' IDs, reports from previous schools, medical record and vaccination booklet, a photo) and payment of the enrolment fee, after which the place is guaranteed. No particular English level is required: children are tested to place them in the right group. Asked whether children of other nationalities who speak neither English nor Romanian can enrol, the school answers yes and provides language support where needed.
Stages and year groups Kindergarten: three years (ages 3-4, 4-5, 5-6) following the IB PYP, taught in English, up to 20 children per class with 2 educators. Primary (clasa pregătitoare and grades 1-4): Romanian national curriculum taught in Romanian, complemented by the IB PYP with six transdisciplinary themes a year. Lower secondary: grades 5-8, with the Evaluarea Națională after grade 8. High school: grades 9-12, national curriculum and the bacalaureat; the social sciences profile is accredited, natural sciences and mathematics-informatics are authorised. The school issues Romanian school documents and is a Cambridge English exam centre.
Address Str. Erou Iancu Nicolae nr. 65, Voluntari, Ilfov
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · PYP · authorised programmeThe IB register lists the Primary Years Programme at the school, taught in the kindergarten and primary school. Beyond that the school follows the Romanian national programme leading to the bacalaureat.
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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.
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
Exam results Bacalaureat 2026 (after appeals): 32 students sat the exam, the two highest averages in Ilfov county were 9.91 and 9.80, 11 averages were above 9.00 (5 of them above 9.50), 6 between 8.00 and 9.00, all averages above 7.00, and four perfect 10s. Evaluarea Națională 2026: all students passed, the highest average was 9.77, 26% of students scored above 9.00 and 30% between 8.00 and 9.00. Cambridge English exams: according to the school, over 98% of students pass, and at PET 76.9% receive the top grade A.
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 · Playground
Campus: The school occupies a 3000 sq m building on Erou Iancu Nicolae street in Voluntari, north of Bucharest: 26 classrooms and labs, a SmartLab, foreign language, science and social science labs, a library, a gym, counselling rooms, a dining hall, a medical office and changing rooms on every floor. Outside there are 1300 sq m for recreation and sport, including a multi-purpose artificial turf field for tennis, basketball, football, handball and volleyball, and 2000 sq m of parking nearby. Lunch and the afternoon snack come from a catering company, with menus agreed with a nutritionist and a paediatrician. Transport is provided by a partner company for an extra fee. There is no boarding.
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 school says its teachers are carefully recruited and continuously trained in both the Romanian system and the IB. In kindergarten main activities are led by an English teacher and an assistant, with lessons from a native English speaker; art, sport and music are taught by specialists. Teaching is led by the education director, Alexandra Toader.
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 policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policy
The school has a medical office: a nurse is on site every day from 8:00 to 16:00, a paediatrician visits once a week, children are checked daily and sick children are isolated. Students have constant access to a school counsellor. The website has a form for reporting bullying.
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