Belgium · Mol
This is a Type 1 European School in the Kempen, not a fourth Brussels address. The leaving diploma is the European Baccalaureate. Category I is fee-exempt. The school’s 2026–27 sheet reprints the Board Category III table and adds general costs.
Dieses Porträt steht noch auf Englisch. Die anderen Sprachen kommen Schule für Schule.
Curriculum laut Schule:European Schools curriculum · European Baccalaureate
Unterrichtssprachen:Section language as first language (L1) — Dutch, French or English — plus L2 and further languages as the European Schools prescribe
European School Mol is a Type 1 European School, not a private IB campus and not European School Brussels I. Official site esmol.be. Address the EURSC location page and the school’s own sheet print: Europawijk 100, B-2400 Mol. Phone +32 (0)14 56 31 01. Fax +32 (0)14 56 31 04. Parents’ association: paesmol.eu.
It is a day school. There is no boarding house on campus. The FAQ says the school cooperates with two external boarding houses, Monday to Friday, with transport. The only house that page names is De Immert in Leopoldsburg — immert.be. We will not invent the second name. Host families are also named on the “our school” page. If the posting has not found a flat, write before you assume Mol will absorb the child.
Director on the school staff page: Maria-José Perez Blanco. The 2026–27 fee PDF signs the same name as María José PÉREZ BLANCO. Nursery and primary deputy: Dora Rolj Kovačević. Secondary deputy: Tinne Van Opstal. The staff page names Sandra Harthoorn for finance and administration, and Jan Luyten / Pieter Loockx as assistants. The EURSC location page still prints an acting finance deputy as Pieter LOOCKX. We will not flatten those lines into one org chart. Write the address you mean.
The useful questions are Flemish-Kempen questions. Are you Category I, II or III? Which language section is this child’s dominant language — Dutch, French or English — not the language you wish they had? And do you understand that this is Mol, a 20-hectare campus the school says buses from Antwerp and Eindhoven, not a Uccle Tuesday?
The home page: children from local families, and from European and overseas families who live and work in Belgium and the Netherlands. The “our school” page’s own photograph: 680 students, 53 nationalities, 130 staff, 22 languages, three language sections, 20 hectares. Treat those as the school’s own numbers.
Category I — a parent works for a European institution or an accredited organisation, contract of one year minimum. Fee-exempt. Confirm the letter.
Category II — individual agreements. Fees paid by a parent, company or organisation. Ask which contract this employer actually has. We will not invent a Mol Category II euro the school sheet does not print.
Category III — other families, if places remain and the child meets the requirements. Priority, the admission page says: Category I, then II, then III. Siblings already in the school are also weighed.
It will not suit a family who only want a Brussels European School because the ring looked shorter on a June map, or a fee-paying IB in Watermael-Boitsfort. Walk those if that is the climate. They share a country and almost no Monday.
The school does not offer scholarships. The FAQ says so.
Brussels I is a Type 1 house in Uccle, with Berkendael. Mol is the quieter Belgian door the country page already named. Same family of European Baccalaureate. Different commune, different bus.
The International School of Brussels is a fee-paying international. Mol is a European School. Category I is not a tour of Watermael-Boitsfort.
A bed at De Immert is not a Mol internat. It is a partner house in Leopoldsburg. Ask that house for its own year.
Europawijk, Mol, the Kempen — pine and brick, not the Brussels ring. The accessibility page: from Antwerp the E313 or the school bus; from Eindhoven the A67 or the school bus; from Brussels the E314 or IC plus bus 2 from Mol station; from Maastricht the E313. Time that journey at the hour you would actually travel.
The “our school” page’s own texture: six science labs, two libraries with more than 45,000 titles, a medical centre with a full-time nurse, three sports halls, two music rooms, a restaurant of 500 seats, three drama stages, a 25-metre indoor pool. Classes, the vision block says, are smaller than average. We will not invent a bus fare. Ask.
Nursery is three years, ages 3–6. Primary five years from 6. Secondary seven years, 11–18, European Baccalaureate at the end of year 7. From primary year 1, a second language. From secondary year 1, three languages.
A news line on the home page: Meet & Greet Saturday 20 June 2026. That date is already history. Ask the live page for the next open morning.
Three sections, as the school prints them: Dutch, French, English. Most of the work lives in the section, mainly with mother-tongue teachers or equivalent. Place the child in the language they actually live in. A wish is not a section.
Nursery and primary: if English is fluent but not the mother tongue, the school assesses each case. Secondary: they encourage the mother-tongue section. If that is not possible and English is strong, a language-level assessment, then advice.
A child who only speaks one language may be possible in secondary years 1 and 2 if that language is a section language and they will catch up. From year 3, some subjects move into L2. The FAQ is blunt: very challenging after that with only one language.
Fill the enquiry form, or write the secretary in school hours. Secondary: Astrid Kesters, +32 14 56 31 03. Previous school reports, except nursery, to place the year group. Equivalence tables sit in the General Rules of the European Schools. We will not invent a closing window. Category III is leftover chairs after I and II.
A visit: Open Day, or an appointment through the secretary. We will not invent the next date.
The school’s own PDF, signed by the director, reprints the Board Category III table for pupils enrolled after 1 September 2013:
| Cycle | 2026–27 |
|---|---|
| Nursery | €4,457.80 |
| Primary | €6,129.55 |
| Secondary | €8,358.46 |
Second child 20% off. Third and later 40% off. Books, trips and occasional expenses are not included — the admission page and the PDF both say so.
25% of the school fee is invoiced at the end of May, due 30 June 2026. The second invoice, 75%, goes out in October, due 30 November 2026. Instalments are not regular practice; in exceptional cases write schoolfees@esmol.be.
General costs the same sheet prints for all pupils unless specified:
| Item | Figure |
|---|---|
| Insurance | €6.00 |
| ICT contribution | €20.00 |
| Swimming (except M1) | €50.00 |
| Photocopies, secondary | €20.00 |
| Photocopies, nursery and primary | €10.00 |
| European Baccalaureate inscription, year 7 | €108.10 |
| Student-card ID photo | €3.50 |
Workbooks, book rentals, workshops, trips, project week, sports day, gym T-shirt, events and online materials: actual cost, separate invoices, spread through the year. We will not invent those euros.
Category I does not pay the minerval. Ask whether the general-cost invoice still arrives. We will not guess.
The European Baccalaureate. The school: recognised in all EU countries and several others. A child can, the “our school” page says, return to a national system at any stage. That is the European Schools sentence, not a promise we will translate into a Flemish atheneum place.
Ask whether this is Category I, II or III — those are three invoices. Ask which section language this child actually lives in. Ask whether the Antwerp bus, the Eindhoven bus, or a De Immert week is the real Monday. Ask what swimming, ICT and photocopies add to a Category III year. Ask how much Dutch a shy eleven-year-old will really have by the second spring if the section is English. Ask what happens if the posting ends in November: this is a European School year, not a rolling international.
We are not ranking Mol against Uccle. We are not inventing a Category III waitlist.
Read the live 2026–27 fee sheet and the secondary admission page before you resign a flat in Antwerp. This is a map. The school still has to be the right Tuesday.
Offizielle Seiten und Dokumente, die wir gelesen haben. Wenn eine Zahl für Budget oder Bewerbung zählt, öffnet den Link und prüft, ob er noch gilt.
Freundliche Orientierung, kein Antrag. Termine, Gebühren und Programme ändern sich. Alles bei der Schule prüfen.
Beide haben Kinder aus vielen Ländern und ein Abschlusszeugnis, das reist. Damit endet die Ähnlichkeit. Das eine ist ein öffentliches System für Familien der EU-Institutionen. Das andere ist ein Markt, in den man sich einkauft.
16 minDie Buchstaben auf dem Abschlusszeugnis zählen. Sie sind nicht das ganze Kind. So unterscheidet ihr sie ohne Kopfschmerz — und ohne so zu tun, als bliebe jede Tür offen.
16 minIhr braucht keinen perfekten Algorithmus. Nur ein paar wahre Dinge über euer Kind, eine langweilige Liste am Kühlschrank — und den Mut, einen schönen Campus zu ignorieren, der nicht passt.
15 minDas Schulgeld ist die Zahl auf der Startseite. Das PDF ist die Zahl, die im März kommt. Hier steht, wie ihr die zweite lest, ohne einen Euro, eine Krone oder eine Frist zu erfinden.