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NACE 85319 · division 85 Education
Current registrations 53division 85: 35,401
Starters, 12 months 23.8 per 100 · Belgium 8.8
Employment (FTE) 2786 employers · latest accounts
Median age 18.2 yearsBelgium 8.1 years

No bankruptcy in the past five years.

Spread across the country

by region and province · 49 of 53 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Wallonia 15 · 30.6%
  • Flanders 15 · 30.6%
  • Brussels 13 · 26.5%
  • Abroad 6 · 12.2%
fewer moremax 13

The balance sheets of division 85 on the map, by municipality and down to the address

Largest employers

NACE 85319 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 ST.JOHN'S INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLWaterloo 82.5 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 Antwerp International SchoolAntwerp 69.5 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF FLANDERSSint-Genesius-Rode 41.5 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 Onderwijsgroep Zusters der Christelijke Scholen Zuid-AntwerpenKontich 39.3 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 ACE of BrusselsAuderghem 32.1 FTEfinancial year 2025

Companies

53 with this main activity

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 11 companies
  • 337 Auxiliary committee for the non-profit sector 7
  • 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 1
  • 152 Subsidised private schools 1
  • 152.01 Subsidised private schools 1
  • 152.02 Subsidised private schools 1
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 1
  • 225 White-collar workers in subsidised private schools 1
  • 225.01 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

12 other activities
Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Education85314 432 1 0 2,984
Education85311 201 0 0 -
Education85324 61 1 0 693
Education85326 42 0 0 508
Education85329 33 0 0 1
Education85321 31 0 0 -
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Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Education85325 21 0 0 -
Education85330 7 0 0 -
Education85323 6 0 0 138
Education85322 4 0 0 292
Education85312 2 0 0 -
Education85313 2 1 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 · Belgium 38.4%
Per financial year20182019202020212022202320242025
Median solvency --47.6%49.2%48.6%48.2%49.3%47.5%
Median net result --€10,255€11,336€8,978€8,655€8,681€8,864
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

Employers with the highest staff cost per FTE in this division All sectors by staff cost In the Analysis workbench

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 €2.54bn awarded 1,675 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Subsidies voor de bouw en renovatie van scholen
  • Federal transfers 265.8m amount as published 86 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Dotatie aan het Instituut voor gerechtelijke opleiding
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €4.86bn paid 1,337 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Subventions forfaitaires - Enseignement de plein exercice
  • EU budget €1.21bn attributed share 88 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

Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.0% is below Belgium's 0.2%.

Inflow and structure. Brussels holds 30.2% of the seats, against 12.5% in Belgium. Half of the companies are younger than 18.2 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. 7.5% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium.

Staff and filing. The 5 largest employers hold 265 of the 278 FTE: 95.3%.

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 85319 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 85319, 17 annual accounts of financial year 2025 were filed. That is too few for a median, which needs at least 30.

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