Pick Me Academy is a private school in Sector 2, Bucharest: the Pick Me Kindergarten on Sublocotenent Pompiliu Manoliu Street and the lower secondary school (Școala Gimnazială Pick Me Academy) on Agricultori Street, 800 m apart. It was founded in 2014 as a kindergarten; a second kindergarten site opened in 2016, the primary school in 2018, and lower secondary grades from the 2024-2025 school year. It follows the Romanian national curriculum, complemented by British lessons in English: phonics, maths in English, cross-curricular history, science and arts, public speaking and personal development. According to the school's quality report, the language of instruction is Romanian; British lessons, the school says, are taught in English, and English is used throughout the day. New pupils are supported by an English as an Additional Language programme. There is no daily homework, only short weekend tasks; parents receive a detailed progress report twice a year. The kindergarten and the school are accredited by the Romanian agency ARACIP; the school is a COBIS Member (Compliance), status reconfirmed in 2023. In the 2024-2025 school year it had 186 pupils: 162 in primary grades and 24 in grade 5.
Key facts
Programmes
National programme
Languages of instruction
Romanian, English
Students
186 pupils in the 2024-2025 school year (162 in primary grades and 24 in grade 5); together with the kindergarten the school cites more than 200 children
Class size
up to 18 children in kindergarten groups, up to 20 in primary classes, up to 24 in lower secondary classes
Registration fee
≈ $395
350 EUR
About the fees Monthly fees in euro, the price list gives no year. School (8:00-18:00): 750 euro per month on a 10-month contract, medical care included. Kindergarten: 450 euro per month for the short day (8:00-13:00) and 470 euro for the long day (8:00-18:00) on a 12-month contract. Meals, administrative costs, learning materials and the registration fee are paid separately (see fees).
Admissions Admission takes five steps: an application through the website form, by phone or email; an online meeting where the school presents its programme; a visit to the chosen site on any weekday from 17:00 to 18:00; a trial day for children over 4; then gradual settling in. Enrolment on the parents' written request is approved by the Board of Directors. The school names no entrance exams. Under its regulations the school must enrol children without a Romanian personal number (CNP), and children who studied in schools in other countries, regardless of citizenship or status, are enrolled as auditors until their studies are recognised by the school inspectorate. Children who need help with English get English as an Additional Language lessons.
Stages and year groups The Pick Me Kindergarten on a separate site and Școala Gimnazială Pick Me Academy: clasa pregătitoare and grades 1-4, with lower secondary from the 2024-2025 school year (in 2024-2025, 10 primary classes and one grade 5 class). The programme is the Romanian national curriculum with British lessons in English; the school offers no international qualification programmes (Cambridge, IB). There is no upper secondary; a new campus for lower secondary is being built. The kindergarten follows British areas of learning (Communication and Language, Understanding of the World, Expressive Arts and Design and others), Jolly Phonics and English as an Additional Language.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
COBIS · membershipThe school is a member of COBIS. It follows the Romanian national programme (primary and lower secondary) with British-style lessons in English.
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COBISCouncil of British International Schools
An association of British schools abroad with a quality inspection of its own. It has nine membership categories, and the word "accredited" appears in seven of them, although COBIS does its own inspection in one: in the rest it recognises an accreditation granted by somebody else.
What the badge means for this school. The school belongs to this organisation but has not been through its accreditation. The difference matters: membership is usually paid for and has no external inspection behind it. The entry is confirmed in the organisation's open directory.
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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
✓Laboratories
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field · Playground
Campus: The school building on Agricultori Street has 1100 m² of indoor space and a 600 m² yard, 800 m from the kindergarten. It has 12 classrooms and two laboratories of 35 to 50 m² with smart boards and ergonomic furniture, a sports hall with a ballet barre, a library, a dining room, a relaxation area and a medical office. The yard has a 3 on 3 basketball court, a mini football pitch, a running track and a play area. Classrooms are disinfected overnight with UV-C units. A new campus for the lower secondary grades is under construction. There is no boarding.
Summer programme away from campus: . The school runs no camp of its own on campus
In summer the Summer School runs for the school's own pupils and children from other schools: weekly themed projects, revision and holiday homework, a daily English club and Cambridge sessions, a German club three times a week, STEM, Zumba, Friday Water Fun, creative workshops and a reading club, four meals a day. The price is 900 lei per week. The school also takes pupils to summer and ski camps.
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
✓Teacher qualifications
✓Number of teachers20
✓Students per teacher or class sizein the key facts above
What the listings show: all 20 teachers are qualified; 3 hold the definitivat, the first level of Romanian teacher certification
According to the school's quality report for 2024-2025, it employs 20 teachers, all qualified. Each class has a coordinating class teacher and subject teachers; each kindergarten group has a teacher and an assistant. Twice a year teachers write a progress report on each child and discuss it with the parents.
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 trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policy
A nurse is on site all day, supported by the school doctor; every morning the nurse checks the children. According to the quality report, the school has a psycho-pedagogical support office with a full-time specialist. The internal rules set access procedures (visitors enter only through the main entrance and are registered by ID) and establish an anti-bullying group that prevents and handles bullying cases.
Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)60 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 data85 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)65 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data70 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data80 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data55 Value for money (6%) scored at the median64 "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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Bucharest, Romania · est. 2014 · Private