RSG Enkhuizen (Regionale Scholengemeenschap Enkhuizen) is a public secondary school in Enkhuizen offering mavo (vmbo-tl), havo and atheneum on one site, with the national exams. Teaching is in Dutch; all three levels offer tweetalig onderwijs (TTO), the only one in the West-Friesland region: in the lower years half of lessons are in English, with extra English, trips to England and Erasmus+ exchanges. The school's international department is known for its English programmes: Anglia exams are open to all students, about 300 upper-year students follow the two-year Cambridge English programme (First, Advanced, Proficiency), TTO havo and vwo students take Cambridge Global Perspectives with IGCSE exams, and upper atheneum students at A-level. TTO mavo students earn British vocational BTEC certificates in travel and tourism and the AIM Award in Vocational Studies. In the first two years everyone chooses one of four streams: sport, science and ICT, art and culture, technology and design. In 2025 the school received the European Innovative Teaching Award.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · National programme
Languages of instruction
Dutch
Class size
the small bridge class has 15-18 students
About the fees Education is free; no tuition fee is charged. The school asks for a voluntary parental contribution for out-of-school activities for 2026-2027; non-payment does not affect admission or participation, but activities go ahead only if 80% of contributions are paid. The voluntary TTO contribution is 350 EUR in year 1, 250 EUR in years 2 and 3 and 30 EUR in mavo year 4; unused balances are refunded, instalments are possible and there is a TTO bursary for low-income families. Cambridge English and Anglia exams are paid separately.
Admissions Year 1 admits students with a primary school recommendation of vmbo-tl (mavo) or higher, including a mixed vmbo-kader/tl recommendation; students with a vmbo-bb or vmbo-kb recommendation cannot be placed. Admission is decided by a school committee taking into account the primary school recommendation, a psychological test and the parents' wishes; a refusal can be appealed in writing. TTO requires at least a vmbo-tl recommendation: the mavo/havo class for vmbo-tl and vmbo-tl/havo recommendations, the havo/vwo class for havo and above. Year 1 registration ran from 25 March to 1 April. Higher years admit only students with a promotion certificate to that year from their previous school. The upper-year Cambridge English programme requires an Anglia certificate, an English grade of 7.0 to 8.0 depending on the programme and a motivation letter in English. The school says nothing specific about international students; it only notes that TTO students with a non-European passport should contact the coordinator about travel to the UK.
Stages and year groups Grades 1-6 (mavo 1-4, havo 1-5, atheneum 1-6). Dutch secondary school: mavo (vmbo-tl, 4 years), havo (5 years) and atheneum (vwo, 6 years) with the national eindexamen; the first year is mixed-ability, and there is a small bridge class of 15-18 students. TTO at all levels with a Junior TTO certificate after havo/vwo year 3 and a TTO certificate after mavo year 4. Cambridge International courses: Cambridge Global Perspectives for TTO havo and vwo students with an IGCSE exam, and A-level Global Perspectives in upper atheneum, with research papers assessed by Cambridge. TTO mavo has Pearson BTEC Level 2 Travel and Tourism in year 3 and the AIM Award in Vocational Studies. Language exams: Anglia (ten levels, open to all) and Cambridge English First, Advanced, Proficiency and Business English in the upper years at all levels.
Address Boendersveld 3, 1602 DK Enkhuizen
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre: on the bilingual track students take Cambridge IGCSE Global Perspectives, and senior atheneum students A Level Global Perspectives. The main curriculum is Dutch.
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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: IGCSE (ages 14-16), A-Level (ages 16-18). 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.
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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
Exam results In the 2026 Cambridge English exams 95 mavo, havo and atheneum students took part: 34 First, 51 Advanced, 10 Proficiency, with a very high share of A and B grades. In 2025 the school reported record IGCSE Global Perspectives results; A-level Global Perspectives students performed on par with UK students a year older. The school does not present national exam results on its pages.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
·Sports hallnot stated on the website
✓Laboratories
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: The school operates on one site in Enkhuizen. The first-year students have their own part of the building with a separate hall. There is a large media centre with librarians, open daily from 8:00 to 15:30, with its own online catalogue, a lab for the science stream and a canteen that makes fresh sandwiches, pasta and pizza every day. Some PE lessons take place at an outdoor sports location. It is a day school with no boarding.
Clubs and activities: Sportstroom (sports stream) · Science & ICT · Kunst & Cultuur (art and culture) · Techniek & Design (technology and design) · Junior Speaking Contest · Marjel Visser Memorial Award · Battle of the schoolbands
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
Every class has a mentor, who visits each student at home in the first year; each year group has its own coordinator. The English programmes are taught by the six teachers of the Cambridge English department. The school does not publish total staff 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 policy
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policy
Social safety is a pillar of the school plan: there is a social safety coordinator and a dedicated reporting channel for students, an anti-bullying protocol, confidential advisers, a safe school covenant, medical procedures and evacuation drills. Phones stay in lockers from the start of the day. The GGD school doctor and nurse see students by appointment; there is a support coordinator and a dyslexia coach.
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Academics and programmes (16%)85 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 data65 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data75 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.
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