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NACE 85104 · division 85 Education
Current registrations 17division 85: 35,401
Employment (FTE) 121 employer · latest accounts

No starter in the past twelve months. No bankruptcy in the past five years.

Spread across the country

by region and province · 17 of 17 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Wallonia 10 · 58.8%
  • Flanders 5 · 29.4%
  • Brussels 2 · 11.8%
fewer moremax 4

Largest employers

NACE 85104 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 Centre Scolaire des EtoilesBrussels 12.1 FTEfinancial year 2024

Companies

17 with this main activity

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 1 company
  • 152 Subsidised private schools 1
  • 225 White-collar workers in subsidised private schools 1

Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.

Division 85: Education

Related activities

4 other activities
Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Education85101 7 0 0 10
Education85109 7 0 0 16
Education85105 2 0 0 -
Education85103 1 0 0 -

Filed accounts of the division

NACE division 85 · financial year 2025 · 4,392 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
46.5%
Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€8,940
Belgium €16,539
Median equity
€66,706
Belgium €98,485
Loss-making
31.0%
Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
14.2%
Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
10.7%
Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
1.93
Belgium 1.66
Filed late
32.0%
financial year 2024, 4,193 filings · Belgium 38.4%
Per financial year20182019202020212022202320242025
Median solvency --47.6%49.2%48.6%48.2%49.3%47.4%
Median net result --€10,255€11,336€8,978€8,655€8,681€8,816
Filed late 34.7%47.5%36.9%37.5%35.7%34.5%32.0%-

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Bankruptcies per year in division 85

Per year201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Bankruptcies273633494850294759626263
Jobs lost3550611028112255150119107111108

2026 through September. Every bankruptcy, also of companies that have since left the register. Source: Statbel (Directorate-General Statistics), NACE classification of 2008.

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 85

740 employers
Median
€65,000
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€49,200 to €81,400
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
43 of 78
sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €63,700 €44,600 to €83,600 374
10 to 49 FTE €64,800 €54,000 to €78,300 311
50 to 249 FTE €74,400 €55,200 to €82,700 49

Running bankruptcies in the sector

NACE division 85
Number
66
Half have run longer than
13 months
Belgium: 20 months
Longer than three years
27%
Belgium: 31%

Measured nationally: Of 108,606 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 29% after liquidation, 3% were withdrawn. After five years, 20% were still open. Half had ended after 26 months (a quarter after 15, three quarters after 51 months).

This counts companies with this main activity in the register on 5 November 2026. The outcome itself is not measured by sector. The activity of a company that leaves the register after its bankruptcy is too often not kept to compare closed cases fairly.

Outcome by court and division

8 of the 11,080 companies in NACE division 85 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: Netherlands (3), France (2) and Spain (1). Together they employ 151 of the division's 27,946 FTE: 0.5%, against 14% for Belgium as a whole.

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €2.52bn awarded 1,673 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Subsidies voor de bouw en renovatie van scholen
  • Federal transfers 257.0m amount as published 83 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Dotatie aan het Instituut voor gerechtelijke opleiding
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €4.68bn paid 1,335 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Allocation de fonctionnement à l'Université catholique de Louvain
  • EU budget €1.21bn attributed share 87 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Horizon Europe
  • EU research €2.42bn EU contribution 44 recipients · 2007 to 2027 · largest: Horizon Europe

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Insights on Education

Inflow and structure. This activity holds 0.0% of the registrations of Education.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 05-11-2026 05:30.

Method and sources

Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. Staff counts once, under the employer's first main activity, from its latest accounts and only where it fits the staff costs. The count follows the NACE 2025 classification, the version in which code 85104 exists.

The bankruptcies over five years count only companies still registered today, because the activity of a company that left the register is not kept. So they are fewer than the bankruptcies of those years, and the figure is not a probability for the future. Over twelve months the count is nearly complete, because a bankrupt company stays registered while its bankruptcy runs. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other NACE divisions rests on an overview of every division, counted again each night. Each division is counted in the version of the NACE classification in which it exists. A standing such as "more than in 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Belgium here counts the 1,275,887 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,448 registrations publish no activity.

For NACE 85104, 2 annual accounts of financial year 2025 were filed. That is too few for a median, which needs at least 30.