Școala Gimnazială Anima is a private school in central Sibiu, authorised by ARACIP for primary and lower secondary levels, included in the city school network and registered as a Cambridge International School. From the 2026-2027 school year the primary school has two lines: the Romanian line (the national curriculum in Romanian with Cambridge subjects taught in Romanian and English) and the international line (Cambridge Primary taught in English, with optional Romanian). From the same year the school opens a lower secondary cycle on the Romanian line, adding Cambridge English and Cambridge science to the national curriculum. The school builds on reading, crafts, family involvement and nature, spends much time outdoors and calls itself a nature-friendly school. It deliberately does not encourage competitions and olympiads, focusing on the joy of learning. There is a standard day until 14:00 and an extended day until 17:00.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $5 310–7 343 a year
4 700–6 500 EUR
Programmes
Cambridge · Primary · National programme
Languages of instruction
Romanian, English
Registration fee
≈ $226
200 EUR
About the fees Fees for 2026-2027: primary 4700 euro per year for the standard day (08:00-14:00) and 5300 euro for the extended day (08:00-17:00); lower secondary 5900 euro for the standard day (until 14:50 or 16:00) and 6500 euro for the extended day (until 17:00). Prices are the same for the Romanian and Cambridge primary lines. 2% discount for full payment; payment can be split into 1 to 10 instalments between September and June. The fee covers lessons and part of the extracurricular activities.
Admissions The school takes registrations for the preparatory class for 2026-2027 through a form on the website, where the family states its intention to enrol the child. The enrolment fee includes the child's initial assessment. The school names no other admission conditions.
Stages and year groups Primary, Romanian line: the national curriculum in Romanian (Romanian, intensive English, mathematics and environmental exploration, history and geography in grade 4, civic education in grade 3 etc.) plus Cambridge subjects - science, mathematics, English, Global Perspectives and digital skills from grade 3. Primary, Cambridge line: Cambridge Primary - English as a second language, Mathematics, Science, Art and Design, Computing and Digital Literacy, Music, Humanities, Global Perspectives, Physical Education, Wellbeing. Lower secondary (from 2026-2027, Romanian line): the national curriculum with English and German, physics from grade 6, chemistry from grade 7, plus Cambridge English 2 hours and Cambridge science 1 hour a week. The school year has 5 modules following the Ministry of Education structure.
Address Strada Constituției 2, Sibiu
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · Primary · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre (listed as School Anima). From 2026-2027 primary has a Cambridge Primary line taught in English alongside the Romanian national programme.
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). 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.
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
The school publishes nothing about where its leavers go: no share going on to university, no exam results, no list of universities.
Facilities
The school does not describe its premises on its website.
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 sizenot stated
The website lists the school director Adriana Luican, primary teachers, teachers of English and German, science, PE and religion; the school's founder is Ruxandra Hanea. The school says it grows its team with people who share its beliefs.
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
✓Counsellor
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The extended programme includes an hour of independent study with psycho-pedagogical support. The school does not describe other safety or child protection measures on its website.
Reviews
No reviews yet. The community rating counts towards the score once a school has five verified reviews - until then we do not show a zero, so as not to mislead.
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 data60 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data55 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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