← Back to the rankingLiceul Teoretic Școala Europeană București
Bucharest, Romania · est. 2001 · Private
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Liceul Teoretic Școala Europeană București (SEB) is a private, fee-paying school in Sector 1 of Bucharest from clasa pregătitoare to Grade 12. It was opened in 2001 by founders Ileana and Cristian Bivolaru as a Romanian-language private school with intensive English; its first Grade 1 class in September 2001 had 4 students, and the school now reports more than 560. All levels (primary, middle and high school) are accredited by ARACIP. Teaching follows the Romanian national curriculum with elements of the British curriculum and international school practice: English takes a large share of the curriculum, all high school classes are bilingual with some subjects taught in English, and the school is a Cambridge exam centre. Since 2013 the school has offered the IB Diploma Programme in Grades 11-12; students can sit the IB Diploma and the national bacalaureat at the same time. There is no kindergarten.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $14 122–21 239 a year
12 500–18 800 EUR
Programmes
IB · DP · National programme
Languages of instruction
Romanian, English
Languages taught
French, German, Spanish
Class size
up to 20 students per class
Registration fee
≈ $339
300 EUR
About the fees Fees for 2026-2027: clasa pregătitoare short day (8:30-14:20) 12500 euro, long day (8:30-16:20) 14200 euro; primary (I-IV), middle school (V-VIII) and high school with the national bacalaureat (IX-XII) 14200 euro; IB Diploma Programme (XI-XII) 18800 euro per year. Fees include compulsory lessons, textbooks and materials, extra hours of Romanian, mathematics and English, preparation for olympiads and for Cambridge, IELTS, DELE, DELF and Zertifikat Deutsch language exams, clubs from 16:00 to 18:00, two main meals and two snacks, medical supervision and counselling. Payment is in full or 20% at enrolment and 80% in eight equal instalments from September to April. Discounts: 1% per year from the fifth consecutive year, 15% for two children at the school, 20% for three or more.
Admissions For clasa pregătitoare the steps are: an email to the school with parent and child details, an interview with both parents and the child (a school visit beforehand is possible on request), an assessment of the child's development on the same day, a decision by email within a week, then the enrolment file. Transfers from another school need a transfer request and the transcript from the previous school. The assessment and parent interview fee is 300 euro. The school lists a separate procedure for Grades 1-12; the website says students can move to the IB Diploma Programme from Grade 11.
Stages and year groups Grades clasa pregătitoare, I-XII. Primary (clasa pregătitoare to Grade IV) in the Băiculești Street building, middle school (V-VIII) and high school (IX-XII) in the Expoziției Boulevard building. The Romanian national curriculum with elements of the British curriculum and intensive English; in middle school the second foreign language is French, German or Spanish, and Grade 8 ends with Evaluarea Națională. High school is bilingual (English) with four profiles: Matematică-Informatică and Științele Naturii (sciences), Filologie and Științe Sociale (humanities), ending with the national bacalaureat. From Grade 11 students can choose the IB Diploma Programme (authorised in 2013); Group 1 offers Romanian A (literature) and English A (language and literature), and two Language A subjects lead to the bilingual diploma; the IB Diploma and the bacalaureat can be taken at the same time.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · DP · authorised programmeThe IB register lists the Diploma Programme at the school; it is taught in grades 11-12 alongside the Romanian national programme and the bacalaureat exam.
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
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: DP (ages 16-19). DP is the final stage, ages 16 to 19: six subjects plus a compulsory core of theory of knowledge, an extended essay and CAS. The diploma is accepted by universities all over the world, and in a number of countries it counts for admission on the same footing as the local leaving certificate.
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
Average IB score
35.72 (world average 30.88)
Exam results IB Diploma, 2025-2026 school year: 11 candidates, average score 35.72, 100% pass rate, 10 bilingual diplomas. National exams: the 2025 Evaluarea Națională average was 9.46, 3rd in Bucharest and 11th nationally; 100% of graduates pass the bacalaureat.
Where leavers go: University of Edinburgh · King's College London · Loughborough University · University of Bath · University of Manchester · Maastricht University · Leiden University · University of Amsterdam · Bocconi University · IE University · University of Bucharest · Bucharest University of Economic Studies (ASE) and others, 15 universities in the school's list in all
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
✓Sports hall
✓Laboratories
✓Theatre or assembly hall
✓Library
✓Catering
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field · Art studio · Makerspace
Campus: The school occupies two buildings of its own in Sector 1, built for it. The Băiculești Street building (since 2005) houses the primary school: 16 classrooms with interactive whiteboards, IT and science labs, a painting workshop, music and theatre rooms, an assembly hall, a covered heated sports field, a library, a dining room, a medical cabinet and a counselling office. The Expoziției Boulevard building (since 2014) houses the middle and high school: 22 classrooms with interactive whiteboards, chemistry-biology, physics and IT labs, a visual arts room, music rooms, a library, a gym and an outdoor field, a new assembly hall (2025), the ȘTIAM lab, a robotics hub, a dining room, a medical cabinet and a counselling office. The school runs its own transport.
Clubs and activities: robotică (robotics) · teatru (theatre) · arte vizuale (visual arts) · muzică (music) · sport (sports)
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 school reports more than 120 teachers, with 70 in middle school. It describes its teachers as carefully selected; in primary, personal development lessons are taught by school counsellors. Middle school students regularly win awards at national olympiads in mathematics, computer science, Romanian, foreign languages and linguistics.
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 policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
Both buildings have a medical cabinet with a paediatrician and a nurse, and medical supervision is included in the fee. Each building has a school counsellor's office, and in primary counsellors teach personal development lessons.
Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)82 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 data90 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data73 "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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