Please find below the most frequently
asked questions and answers:
These are the school divisions and age ranges accept registrations for:
We are opening a Middle School,
ages 11+ from 2024
For our young learners, we design learning that covers all traditional school objectives, as well as holistic and life-long competencies.
Tuition and additional fees range from 300€ to 500€/month (to be paid in 4 equal quarterly payments).
There are additional fees (meals, transportation, co-curricular activities, certain trips and events, etc).
There are discounts available for siblings (10% starting with the second sibling) and a special ‘co-creator’ fee for families who are willing to contribute to the development of our adult development and learning program.
Please click here for more information on the costs of tuition and other fees.
Learners come to Colina International School with varying levels of English.
Children applying for our Preschool program (ages 2-6) may enter with limited or no English skills.
Children applying for our Primary School program (ages 6-10) do not have a minimum requirement, but their English level will be assessed and , if necessary, they will receive extra support from our learning team.
In October 2025, the school in Băbuțiu received ARACIP authorization, officially becoming Colina International School. Alongside its NEASC accreditation (December 2023), this recognition confirms both the quality and the impact of Colina’s educational approach—one that looks beyond grades and exams, focusing on the development of well-rounded individuals.
Diplomas earned at Colina International School are officially recognized and can be equivalated worldwide.
Colina International School has a unique integrated adult-child curriculum. On a basic academic level, we are using the New York State Learning Standards delivered through a customised Expeditionary Learning methodology model.
Learning is experiential, project-based and highly personalized. Additionally, we have a life-long view of learning, preparing learners to gain all the competencies needed to have a rich and meaningful adult life.
Colina International School year starts at the beginning of September and finishes at the end of June.
At Colina International School we have a new name for our teachers: “Learning Designers”. This fits our school’s philosophy that education is not about the teachers teaching but about the learners learning.
This is the main job of the educators on our team: to design learning which is deeply engaging and powerful for each learner.
Our learning designers have experience in international and progressive curricula.
They don’t work in isolation, each alone in a classroom. Their work is profoundly collaborative, ensuring that together, as a team of learning designers (some as ‘subject learning designers’), they design coherent and challenging inter-disciplinary learning experiences for the learners in their care.
Learners will be organized into age ranges instead of single grade levels. An age range combines two grade levels and is served by a dedicated team of learning designers.
Colina International School curriculum is designed to deliver a highly personalized approach to learning. Learners will work in a variety of group settings, including 1-1, small groups, and larger project teams.
Our learners-to-educator ratio ensures that each child receives a high degree of personal attention and individual support. This is an essential piece of Colina International School educational philosophy.
These are our maximum ratios per age range:
Yes, we offer a school bus service with pick up and drop-off from Auchan Iris.
The school bus schedule is:
At Colina International School, we believe that people learn more from how they are taught than from what they are taught. We have a learning model with a life-long view (all the competencies you need to become a thriving, purposeful adult) and a few building blocks common to learners of all ages:
Yes. Colina International School offers a catering service which includes lunch and an afternoon snack. Our catering company is Bucataria Zen Catering. As much as possible, we use organic ingredients (vegetables and herbs) from Colina Farms.
Colina International School challenges some of the fundamental premises of mainstream education. We are applying the latest developments in global education inspired by innovative school frames such as World Economic Forum Education 4.0 or the New Curriculum of Finland.
Here is a brief comparison of the features of traditional education and innovative education models:
You can read more about it in our blog post.
