Sandefjord · time Framnes
Sandefjord is not a suburb of Bekkestua. The portrait we have is an IB house on Framnesveien, plus a Tønsberg gate. The 2026 tables print spring kroner. A new fee arrives on 1 January 2027.
Sandefjord is not “the international school.” It is a Vestfold harbour town whose municipal grunnskole is allowed to be first, plus one official English-facing door posting families name in the first week: Skagerak on Framnesveien, with a second gate in Tønsberg.
The portrait we have is Skagerak International School. Use it for the 2026 spring tables — primary and middle NOK 22,400 for January–April, high school state-support NOK 14,865, kindergarten NOK 1,200 a month. We will not invent an annual total. This note is the town around it. The Norway country page is the wider map.
Skagerak sits at Framnesveien 7, on the water. The homepage calls it Norway’s only full IB continuum. Baglergaten 16 in Tønsberg is another official gate. Primary there is PYP. Middle there is an MYP candidate since November 2022. Ask which town this child would actually stand in.
It is a day school. The UWC at Flekke is sixteen and a bed. Oslo is another posting.
If you might stay, an English IB is not automatically the kindest paper. A grunnskole that already knows the street — that is an official morning. Time the 03 bus to Framnes before you fall in love with Bekkestua.
The language of the yard is the test.
Ask whether this family is entitled to the state-support high-school line. Ask what the 1 January 2027 notice changes. Time Framnes and, if that is the file, Tønsberg on the same Tuesday.
The city hub is the short map. The Skagerak portrait is the long one.
Friendly orientation, not formal admissions advice. Always confirm dates with the school.
Norway’s only full-continuum IB school, the homepage says, sits on the waterfront in Sandefjord, not in Oslo. The 2026 tables print spring kroner and monthly instalments. A new fee arrives on 1 January 2027. Time Framnes, not Bekkestua.
TrondheimA state-supported English-medium house in the centre of Trondheim, not an Oslo IB campus. 2026 monthly fees are public. It ends at Year 10. The diploma years live elsewhere.
SageneA German-Norwegian Begegnungsschule in the park at Myra, not the IB campus in Bærum and not the French lycée in Frogner. Monthly fees follow Norwegian makspris. The leaving papers are the German International Abitur and the Norwegian Vitnemål.
SandsliA west-coast day school on Sandslihaugen, 15 km from Bergen centre, not Bekkestua and not Hafrsfjord. The Board’s 2026–27 schedule prints kroner for B1, B2 and C. Tuition A is upon application. The campus stops at Grade 10.
The letters on the leaver’s certificate matter. They are not the whole child. Here is how to tell them apart without a headache, and without pretending every door stays open.
16 minYou do not need a perfect algorithm. You need a few true things about your child, a boring list on the fridge, and the courage to ignore a beautiful campus that does not fit.
15 minTuition is the number on the homepage. The PDF is the number that arrives in March. Here is how to read the second one, without inventing a euro, a krona, or a deadline.
12 minSkip the question about last year’s average. Ask the ones that make a teacher’s face change. Then look at the corridor while they answer.