Springbok International is a public (openbare) primary school with an international character in the Transvaal district of Den Haag, on two sites; since 2022 it has been an authorised IB World School offering the Primary Years Programme. In the 2024-2025 school year 427 children of nearly 50-60 nationalities attended; for most, Dutch is not the home language. Teaching is in Dutch under the IB PYP with its six transdisciplinary themes; English is taught as a subject from group 3, at least one lesson per week. The school specialises in teaching Dutch as a second language: teachers train every year, recently arrived children join newcomer groups for 40-60 weeks, and there is a NISBO group for newcomers with special needs (up to 16 children, up to two years). The school officially holds healthy school status and calls itself the sportiest school in the country; after school there are activities and a summer school run with a local organisation.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · PYP · National programme
Languages of instruction
Dutch
About the fees Education is free; the school is public. The school asks for a one-off voluntary parental contribution of 50 EUR per student for celebrations, school trips and the big sports day (per the 2025-2026 school guide); children joining mid-year are charged pro rata.
Admissions The school welcomes all children regardless of background, religion or orientation. A child can start school at 4; Den Haag has a central registration procedure, but the school has no cap on student numbers, so registration is possible throughout the year. At registration the child's details are taken and a tour can be requested; the quality coordinator contacts the previous setting and, if the child has special needs, checks whether the school can meet them. For children who have recently arrived in the Netherlands and do not speak Dutch there are newcomer groups where they learn the language first and then move into a regular class.
Stages and year groups Grades groep 1-8. Dutch primary school (basisschool), groep 1-8 (ages 4-12), following the IB Primary Years Programme: six transdisciplinary themes within which children study the world around them, language, mathematics and reading. Teaching is in Dutch; English is a subject from group 3. Separate newcomer groups (Dutch as a second language) and a NISBO group for newcomers with special needs. At the end of group 8 students receive a secondary school recommendation through the Haaglanden procedure.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · PYP · authorised programmeThe school is listed in the IB register and runs the Primary Years Programme. It is a Dutch state primary school.
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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: PYP (ages 3-12). PYP is the primary stage, ages 3 to 12. It is not a set of subjects but a frame for the whole school: learning is built around lines of inquiry, and there are no exams at the end.
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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 primary school final tests over three years, 93.5% of students reached the basic level 1F (inspectorate threshold 85%) and 47.6% the higher level 1S/2F (threshold 34.3%). The school says both sites scored satisfactorily on the final test.
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
✓Library
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Playground · Makerspace
Campus: Two sites in the Transvaal district of Den Haag: Pretoriusstraat and Wolmaransstraat. The school has a library with English books, a gym, a play hall for the youngest, a technology room, a speech therapy practice, a school social worker and a family liaison officer; Dutch lessons for parents are held at Pretoriusstraat. A toddler group for ages 2-4 and after-school care run by partners operate in the Pretoriusstraat building, and at Wolmaransstraat the school works with a pre-school group in the neighbouring community centre. Everyone eats lunch at school with their teacher, bringing food from home; after lunch outdoor play is led by specialists. It is a day school with no boarding.
Clubs and activities: Sport en spel (sport and games) · Creatieve activiteiten (creative activities) · Techniek en wetenschap (technology and science) · Taal en cultuur (language and culture)
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 team has about 60 people; teachers train every year in teaching Dutch as a second language, and all class teachers are trained in working with the IB learner profile. There are specialist teachers for handicrafts, music, PE, drawing and science and technology, an internal coach for teachers and support specialists. The school does not publish teacher qualifications or class sizes.
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 policy
Bullying is not allowed; there is no separate anti-bullying programme, the work is part of the general social development programme, with police lessons on social media bullying and the school social worker; there is an anti-bullying coordinator and a confidential adviser, plus the school board's confidential adviser. Children with special needs are supported under the school support profile together with the regional partnership SPPOH.
Reviews
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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 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 data70 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data70 "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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