Mgr. Bekkersschool is a Catholic primary school (basisschool) in the Voorhof district of Delft, an authorised IB school working with the Primary Years Programme. Children learn through themes and their own inquiry: every day all subjects, including maths, language and reading, link to a theme from the school's programme of inquiry. The main language of instruction is Dutch; children learn English from groep 1 as part of the PYP, and the school supports each child's home language. The school calls itself language-friendly: many students speak several languages, and the team includes two specialists in Dutch as a second language. There is a separate language class for children aged 6 and over who are new to the country. The school stresses that everyone is welcome, regardless of culture and religion.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · PYP · National programme
Admits from
4 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Dutch
Class size
up to 28 students per group, in exceptional cases 29; in the language class usually no more than 15 pupils
About the fees Education is free. The voluntary parental contribution for 2026-2027 is 50 euros per child per school year, for celebrations, cultural and sports activities and excursions that the government does not fund. A separate voluntary contribution is asked for the school trip and the groep 8 camp. Non-payment never excludes anyone from activities; the contribution can be paid with the municipal Delftpas or Rotterdampas.
Admissions A child can be registered from age 3 with a form on the website or at school; the head invites families for a meeting, an intake interview takes place about three months before the fourth birthday, and from 3 years and 10 months a child can come to settle in. A child starts school on their fourth birthday; school is compulsory from age 5. For transfers from another school, the school first contacts the current school and holds an interview. If places are short, siblings of current students have priority; an answer is given within 10 weeks of the application. Children recently arrived in the Netherlands join the language class from age 6, learning Dutch for about seven months before moving to a regular class; children aged 4-5 go straight into groups 1-2 with extra help.
Stages and year groups Grades groep 1-8. Dutch primary school (basisschool), groep 1-8 (ages 4-12), following the IB Primary Years Programme (PYP) with units of inquiry; English from groep 1. In groep 1-2 development is tracked with KIJK!, in groep 3-8 with the Cito system. In groep 8 all students take the national doorstroomtoets, and the secondary school recommendation is given in January. A separate language class for newcomers aged 6 and over (up to 15 children).
Address Frederik van Eedenlaan 12, 2624 VH Delft
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 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 hallnot stated on the website
·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
Campus: A primary school in the Voorhof district of Delft. All classrooms have interactive whiteboards, children work on tablets and laptops, and the youngest have a touch table. The school has a library with books from the DOK city library and its own vegetable garden, where children grow vegetables and cook. The school day follows a continuous timetable, the same five days a week: 8:30 to 13:45. Every day all students receive free fresh fruit and a healthy lunch at school under a government scheme, with vegetarian and halal options. After-school care is provided by the board's partners. 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 team includes the head, an internal support coordinator, a PYP coordinator, lower and upper school coordinators, language and maths coordinators, a PE teacher, class teachers, a teaching assistant, a caretaker and an administrative assistant. The team is trained to work with multilingual children and includes two specialists in Dutch as a second language.
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 policy
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policy
The school does not accept bullying, discrimination or intimidation and talks immediately with those involved and their parents. There is an internal confidential adviser for children, and an external confidential adviser of the school board for parents and staff. The school follows the national protocol on domestic violence and child abuse and the mandatory procedure for reporting sexual offences. There are behaviour, inclusion, language and academic honesty 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 data65 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data65 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.
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