Wolfert Tweetalig is a public (openbare) bilingual secondary school in Rotterdam: it offers only bilingual havo (5 years) and bilingual vwo (6 years), and calls itself the best-known bilingual school in the country. Biology, geography, drama, art and design, history, music, PE and mathematics are taught in English; the final eindexamen is the national one, in Dutch. All bilingual havo students take Cambridge IGCSE Global Perspectives and an IB English exam, and all vwo students take the IB Global Politics exam and an IB English exam. Spanish, Chinese, philosophy and mathematics D are offered as exam subjects. The international programme is compulsory for all: a language trip to Bath in year 2, an exchange with European peers in year 3, trips to Dublin, Málaga or Florence in vwo year 4, and the iMAS volunteer placement abroad in the pre-exam year (Bosnia, the Dominican Republic, Macedonia, Romania, Suriname). Strong vwo students are offered pre-university programmes with Leiden University, Erasmus University Rotterdam and TU Delft.
Key facts
Programmes
AP · National programme
Languages of instruction
Dutch, English
Languages taught
Spanish, Chinese
About the fees Education is free: the school receives state funding that covers the basic programme. For the bilingual programme the school asks a voluntary parental contribution: for 2026-2027, 375 EUR in years 1-2 and 890 EUR from year 3, payable in three instalments. Students are not excluded from activities if families do not pay, but a trip may be cancelled for the whole group if too few parents pay.
Admissions Year 1 admits students into havo/vwo and vwo classes through the city-wide OverstapRoute: open lesson afternoons, an information evening, an open day and an introductory interview in March. Priority goes to siblings of students and to children from primary schools with early foreign language teaching (VVTO) or bilingual primary schools (TPO). There are no places for transfers from other schools in the current school year. The school does not write separately about admitting children of foreign families.
Stages and year groups Grades 1-6 (tweetalig havo 1-5, tweetalig vwo 1-6). Dutch havo and vwo curriculum with the national eindexamen, entirely in the bilingual education format. International exams: Cambridge IGCSE Global Perspectives for all bilingual havo students; IB Global Politics and Societies for all bilingual vwo students; an IB English exam for all. Optional exam subjects: Spanish, Chinese, philosophy, mathematics D (vwo), drama (havo). The school does not run the full IB Diploma or Cambridge A-Level; Advanced Placement courses do not appear on the school's site.
Address Bentincklaan 280, 3039 KK Rotterdam
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
College Board · authorised programmeThe main curriculum is Dutch with a bilingual track. The College Board AP Course Ledger 2025-2026 lists AP courses at the school.
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College BoardCollege Board, the AP programme
An American organisation that allows a school to put the letters AP on a pupil's transcript. The permission is granted course by course and tied to a particular teacher, it has to be renewed every year, and College Board reads the course syllabus before granting it.
What the badge means for this school. The school is allowed to run advanced AP courses - not the school as a whole, but one by one: by subject and by teacher. Governance, safeguarding and the primary years are not part of that check. Which subjects are actually approved is visible in the ledger. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it.
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Advanced Placement: American advanced courses for the senior years. The exam for a course is set and marked by the College Board, not by the school. A good result is counted by American universities as a first-year course already passed, which saves a student time and money.
What this means for this school. A school does not get to call a course AP automatically: the College Board reads the course syllabus and approves it separately for every subject and every teacher, and the permission has to be renewed each year. Every approved school in the world is listed in the open AP Course Ledger, and this school's entry there stands as a line in the accreditation block above. How many courses a school is approved for, and in which subjects, the ledger does not show in its general listing. AP has no leaving certificate of its own: it sits on top of the school's main programme rather than being a separate system.
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 hallnot stated on the website
·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
Campus: A building in Rotterdam within walking distance of Rotterdam Centraal station, with buses 33 and 40 stopping at the door and indoor bicycle parking. The school has a media library with bookcases, a large reading table with international magazines and newspapers, a coffee corner for parents and an auditorium used for charity fairs. Families buy a laptop or tablet themselves; if needed the school lends a device. It is a day school with no boarding.
Clubs and activities: MUN · Wolfert Debate Society · School Newspaper · Model European Parliament · Chinese Crafts Club · Japanse les (Japanese lessons) · Korean · Guitar · Schaken (chess) · Basketbal (basketball) · Zaalvoetbal (futsal) · Jiu-jitsu · Kickboxen (kickboxing) · Zwemles (swimming lessons) · Make You Move dans (dance) · Costume Team · Theater kijkcursus (theatre appreciation course)
Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their 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
✓Counsellor
✓Child protection policy
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policy
There is a safety plan under the school safety law, a safety contact person, a protocol against bullying and unwanted behaviour, a protocol on sexual integrity, and two school counsellors for learning, psychosocial issues, grief and bullying. Every new student has a mentor and a junior mentor from the upper years, with weekly study skills lessons.
Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)63 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 data70 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data65 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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