Stedelijk College Eindhoven is a public (openbare) secondary school with two sites in Eindhoven. Henegouwenlaan has about 1550 students and about 180 staff: mavo, havo and vwo in two versions, atheneum and gymnasium with Latin and Greek, plus De Campus, a Dutch-language project-based pathway for the first years. Oude Bossche Baan hosts vmbo at all levels and Eerste Opvang Anderstaligen, induction classes for newly arrived children. The school was one of the first in the country to introduce bilingual education in 1992 and has been a Senior TTO school since 2005: in havo and vwo at least half of lessons in the lower years are in English, about a quarter in the upper years; 40-50% of students follow this track. Other subjects and the final eindexamen are in Dutch. Bilingual students take Cambridge Checkpoint in year 3, study IB English Language and Literature in the upper years and receive TTO Junior and Senior certificates. About a quarter of students come from other countries; those living in the Netherlands for less than six years get Dutch as a second language in the TaalLokaal. Education is free; the school asks for a voluntary parental contribution.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · Lower Secondary · National programme
Languages of instruction
Dutch, English
Languages taught
German, Latin, Greek, Chinese, Arabic
Students
about 1550 at Henegouwenlaan; for Oude Bossche Baan the school gives about 1000
Class size
about 25 students, depending on year and stream
About the fees Education at the school is free. The voluntary parental contribution for 2026-2027 is 95 EUR; in the bilingual stream the total contribution including Cambridge exams and TTO activities is 285 EUR in year 1 (including camp), 250 EUR in years 2-3 and 185 EUR in years 4-6. Not paying does not exclude a child from regular lessons.
Admissions Admission to year 1 is based on the primary school recommendation (schooladvies), which is decisive: a vwo recommendation leads to (bilingual) vwo, havo to havo/vwo or bilingual havo/vwo, mavo to mavo or mavo/havo; De Campus accepts any level after a selection committee decision. Switching into the bilingual stream after year 1 is not possible. Students enter higher years with a promotion certificate, if they have not repeated a year twice and the class will not exceed 32; students moving house are placed first. Families relocating to the region can enrol mid-year by email. The school speaks directly about international students: about a quarter of students come from other countries, and children living in the Netherlands for less than six years get Dutch lessons; the school advises them to enter the Dutch-language rather than the bilingual stream. Children aged 11.5-16 without Dutch first go to EOA induction classes at Global College Eindhoven, application after moving to the Eindhoven area, currently with a waiting list.
Stages and year groups Dutch curriculum: vmbo (basis, kader, mavo), havo, vwo-atheneum and vwo-gymnasium with the eindexamen; bilingual education in havo and vwo (50% of lessons in English in the lower years, about 25% in the upper years), with a Cambridge Checkpoint certificate in year 3, the IB English Language and Literature course (Standard Level in havo, Higher Level in vwo), TTO Junior and Senior certificates and Cambridge English exams. The school does not run Cambridge IGCSE, A-Level or the IB Diploma. De Campus is a Dutch-language project-based pathway for the first two or three years. The second site runs vmbo and EOA induction classes.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · Lower Secondary · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre: on the bilingual track all students take Cambridge Checkpoint in Year 3. The main curriculum is Dutch.
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: Lower Secondary (ages 11-14). Lower Secondary is the middle stage, ages 11 to 14, with the same optional Checkpoint test at the end.
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 from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
✓Sports hall
✓Laboratories
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field · Makerspace
Clubs and activities: MUNsce (school Model United Nations) · Debatteam (debate team) · SCToneel (school theatre) · Stedelijk College TV · Leerlingenparlement (student parliament) · Ontdek je Talent (Discover Your Talent: free after-school clubs) · Challenge Programme
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
About 180 staff work at the Henegouwenlaan site. Every student has their own learning coach (leercoach). The school is part of the Trion network, where teachers keep their training up to date.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
✓CCTV
·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 training
✓Anti-bullying policy
There is a safety plan, limited CCTV in and around the building, staff trained for emergencies and an annual evacuation drill. Two anti-bullying coordinators, an anti-bullying protocol, internal and external confidential advisers and a support team (dyslexia, ADHD, autism, anxiety, mental health). Phones are banned during the day under the rule home or in the locker.
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 data80 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.
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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