Education
No bankruptcy in the past five years.
Spread across the country
by region and province · 80 of 113 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Wallonia
- Flanders
- Brussels
- Abroad
The balance sheets of division 85 on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE 85591 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts- 1 NATUURWERKTurnhout 130 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 FIX vzwAnderlecht 95.3 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 SKILLIANTBruges 46.0 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 ALTISSIA INTERNATIONALOttignies-Louvain-la-Neuve 24.4 FTEfinancial year 2024
- 5 KANS OP ARBEID ANTWERPENAntwerp 8.4 FTEfinancial year 2025
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 8 companies- 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 4
- 152 Subsidised private schools 2
- 225 White-collar workers in subsidised private schools 2
- 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 1
- 152.01 Subsidised private schools 1
- 203 White-collar workers in bluestone quarries 1
- 225.01 White-collar workers in subsidised private schools 1
- 329.01 Socio-cultural sector 1
Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.
Division 85: Education
Related activities
7 other activities| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sports and recreation education85510 | 13,583 | 2,010 | 17 | 360 |
| Other education85599 | 11,629 | 1,243 | 11 | 2,632 |
| Vocational training85592 | 3,008 | 248 | 6 | 4,874 |
| Cultural education85520 | 2,035 | 211 | 0 | 550 |
| Driving schools for cars and motorcycles85531 | 1,039 | 97 | 6 | 1,211 |
| Socio-cultural adult education85593 | 994 | 63 | 0 | 585 |
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| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Education85532 | 292 | 21 | 0 | 62 |
Filed accounts of the division
NACE division 85 · financial year 2025 · 4,405 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | - | - | 47.6% | 49.2% | 48.6% | 48.2% | 49.3% | 47.5% |
| Median net result | - | - | €10,255 | €11,336 | €8,977 | €8,654 | €8,678 | €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 year | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bankruptcies | 27 | 36 | 33 | 49 | 48 | 50 | 29 | 47 | 59 | 62 | 62 | 63 |
| Jobs lost | 35 | 50 | 61 | 102 | 81 | 122 | 55 | 150 | 119 | 107 | 111 | 108 |
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
741 employers| Size | Median | Middle half | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| fewer than 10 FTE | €63,500 | €44,500 to €83,400 | 375 |
| 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 85Measured nationally: Of 108,621 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 28% 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 9 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.
8 of the 11,081 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 27,952 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
- Wallonia-Brussels Federation €4.68bn paid
- Federal transfers 257.0m amount as published
- EU budget €1.21bn attributed share
- EU research €2.43bn EU contribution
Insights on Education
Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.0% is below Belgium's 0.2%.
Inflow and structure. Half of the companies are younger than 20.9 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. Wallonia holds 42.3% of the seats, against 22.7% in Belgium. 29.2% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium.
Staff and filing. The 5 largest employers hold 304 of the 320 FTE: 94.9%.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 09-11-2026 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 85591 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 1,276,461 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,442 registrations publish no activity.
For NACE 85591, 23 annual accounts of financial year 2025 were filed. That is too few for a median, which needs at least 30.