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Cluj Napoca, Romania · Private
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Royal School in Transylvania is a private British international day school in Cluj-Napoca for children aged 3 to 18. The school calls itself the only school in Cluj-Napoca teaching solely the Cambridge curriculum and solely in English: from Early Years through Cambridge Primary and Lower Secondary to IGCSE and AS/A Level. It is founded by the School for Europe Foundation. According to the home page it has more than 290 students of 31 nationalities, 6.2 students per teacher, and 35% of teachers have international experience. The school reports COBIS accreditation (October 2022, for 5 years, with particular praise for safeguarding and wellbeing), Cambridge exam centre status and ARACIP authorisation; it runs the Duke of Edinburgh's Award. The Head of School is Robert King.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $9 942–16 381 a year
8 800–14 500 EUR
Programmes
Cambridge · Primary, Lower Secondary, IGCSE, A-Level
Admits from
3 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
English
Languages taught
Romanian, French, Spanish, German
Class size
up to 12 children in kindergarten and Reception, up to 22 students from the first to the thirteenth year of school
Registration fee
≈ $565
500 EUR
About the fees Tuition for 2026-2027: Early Years (ages 3-5) 8800 euro, Year 1-6 11400 euro, Year 7-9 11800 euro, Year 10-11 13500 euro, Year 12-13 14500 euro per year. Additional fees apply: 150 euro in Early Years and Year 1-2, 300 euro from Year 3 (swimming and sports, local events); totals from 8950 to 14800 euro. Payment can be annual in advance (a 4%, 2% or 1.5% discount depending on the month of signing), in three instalments (4, 3 and 4 months) or monthly (11 payments). Siblings: 10% for two children, an additional 15% from the third child. Textbooks, workbooks and basic supplies are included. Fees are indexed to inflation every year.
Admissions Children are placed by age at the start of the school year (late August to July): kindergarten from age 3, Year 1 from age 5. Up to age 8 no English is required; children who are not fluent in English get additional English lessons. Parents choose Romanian as a first or second language (up to Year 9) and a second foreign language from Year 3. On first enrolment and every re-enrolment there is a 12-week probationary period in which the form tutor, Key Stage coordinator and director assess how the child fits into the class and community. The home page lists students of 31 nationalities, and the Head addresses families new to a city or country. The enrolment fee is 400 or 500 euro, non-refundable.
Stages and year groups Grades Kindergarten, Reception, Year 1-13. Early Years Foundation Stage (kindergarten from age 3 and Reception from age 4); Cambridge Primary in Year 1-6 with the external Checkpoint at the end of Year 6; Cambridge Lower Secondary in Year 7-9 with Checkpoint at the end of Year 9; Cambridge IGCSE in Year 10-11 (everyone starts with 11 subjects: English First Language, English Literature, Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, a modern foreign language and PE are compulsory, plus 3 options); Cambridge International AS and A Level in Year 12-13 (4 subjects, then 3: English Literature, Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Mathematics, Psychology, Business, History, Computer Science, Art, German). An A Level subject runs if 4-5 students choose it.
Address Strada Henri Barbusse 44-46, 400616 Cluj-Napoca
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · Primary, Lower Secondary, IGCSE, A-Level · authorised programmeCOBIS · accreditationThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre, and it is an accredited member of COBIS. It teaches only Cambridge programmes, from Primary to A Level.
school is in an official registryconfirmed by a school document, by membership or by taking part in a networkclaimed by the school, no confirmation, not counted in the scoreGuide to all organisations → What stands behind each entry
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: Primary (ages 5-11), Lower Secondary (ages 11-14), IGCSE (ages 14-16), A-Level (ages 16-18). Primary is the primary stage, ages 5 to 11: English, mathematics and science to Cambridge syllabuses. At the end of the stage a school may run the optional Checkpoint test, which is marked in Cambridge. Lower Secondary is the middle stage, ages 11 to 14, with the same optional Checkpoint test at the end. IGCSE means exams at around Year 10 or 11, the British counterpart of a lower secondary leaving certificate. A-Level is the senior years, and their results are what British and many other universities admit on.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →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 has been through this organisation's accreditation. It was judged as a whole: governance, safeguarding, staff, premises, teaching. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →Exams and destinations from the school's official website
Exam results Cambridge Checkpoint 2025/26: in Year 6 Mathematics 29 against an international average of 31, English 35 against 33, Science 27 against 32; in Year 9 Mathematics 33 against 31, English 40 against 34, Science 37 against 31. IGCSE: the share of students with 5 or more grades of 4 and above was 60% in June 2024, 61.2% in 2025 and 63% in 2026. A Level: the share of A*-C grades was 8.3% in 2024, 44.2% in 2025 and 31.6% in 2026.
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
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field
Campus: The school occupies a site on Henri Barbusse Street in Cluj-Napoca. The main building houses primary classrooms and rooms for Art, Mathematics, English, Humanities and Computer Science. The kindergarten building opened in 2020 and was redeveloped in 2023: 4 classrooms and a large indoor gym that doubles as the assembly hall. The all-weather sports field is used for PE and outdoor play. From the third year of school swimming lessons are part of the programme. Hot meals from external catering companies are available if parents choose.
Clubs and activities: Fit In Cluj · Kinderdance · Codemy · CreActivity Cluj · Karate Kids · Viitorul Cluj (football) · Debate Club · Duke of Edinburgh's International Award · Student Council
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
✓Teacher qualifications
·Number of teachersthe school does not say
✓Students per teacher or class sizein the key facts above
What the listings show: 35% of teachers have international experience
The staff page lists about 50 teachers and assistants: primary class teachers, secondary subject teachers (English, Mathematics, Sciences, Humanities, Art, Music, PE, French, Spanish, Romanian), an English as a Second Language teacher, a school counsellor, a SEND coordinator and a university and career counsellor. The administration includes two nurses. The Head of School is Robert King, who also teaches Mathematics.
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 policy
✓Staff training
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The school trains all staff in safeguarding procedures; a team of three experienced staff oversees the policy and procedures alongside a full-time trained counsellor. The safeguarding policy is published on the website. During COBIS accreditation the school was especially praised for safeguarding, wellbeing work and student leadership. The school has two nurses.
Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)95 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data80 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data75 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)90 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data70 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 "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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