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NACE 85699 · division 85 Education
Current registrations 947division 85: 35,440
Starters, 12 months 899.4 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Bankruptcies, 12 months 11.1 per 1,000 registrations · Belgium 6.2
Employment (FTE) 47140 employers · latest accounts
Median age 6.9 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 71.8%680 of 947 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

Filed accounts

NACE 85699 · financial year 2025 · 148 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
54.8%
division 46.6% · Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€5,050
division €8,935 · Belgium €16,500
Median equity
€122,634
division €66,772 · Belgium €98,350
Loss-making
36.5%
division 31.0% · Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
10.1%
division 14.2% · Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
6.8%
division 10.7% · Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
2.49
division 1.94 · Belgium 1.66
Filed late
33.6%
financial year 2024, 149 filings · division 32.0% · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
5.6%
of 162 companies with annual accounts · division 6.6% · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year202020212022202320242025
Median solvency 51.0%52.9%51.6%48.7%53.6%54.8%
Median net result €10,182€15,990€10,943€8,809€17,940€5,050

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Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered
1
0.11% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%
Running bankruptcies
1
1.1 per 1,000 registrations

Recent bankruptcies

Date Company
16-02-2026 Van Neyghem, Camiel
BE 0546.481.469 · sole trader · Brussels

Every bankruptcy in division 85, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 397 of 947 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 216 · 54.4%
  • Wallonia 94 · 23.7%
  • Brussels 81 · 20.4%
  • Abroad 6 · 1.5%
fewer moremax 81

Largest employers

NACE 85699 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 EUN PARTNERSHIPBrussels 89.7 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 Comité organisateur de l'Institut technique de NamurNamur 53.0 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 Eureka NetworkEtterbeek 39.7 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 STUDIO GLOBOBrussels 29.6 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 Onderwijsvereniging van Steden en GemeentenBrussels 22.3 FTEfinancial year 2025

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 42 companies
  • 337 Auxiliary committee for the non-profit sector 15
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 14
  • 335 Services and support for business and the self-employed 4
  • 329.01 Socio-cultural sector 3
  • 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 2
  • 319 Educational and residential institutions 2
  • 336 Liberal professions 2
  • 152 Subsidised private schools 1
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  • 225 White-collar workers in subsidised private schools 1
  • 314 Hairdressing and beauty care 1
  • 331 Flemish welfare and health sector 1

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

Division 85: Education

Related activities

2 other activities
Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Education85691 88 1 0 30
Education85610 27 18 0 14

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

741 employers
Median
€65,000
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€49,100 to €81,400
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
42 of 78
sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
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

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 108,642 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 7 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 11,081 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 1,674 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 1,333 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 €2.43bn EU contribution 44 recipients · 2007 to 2027 · largest: Horizon Europe

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Balance sheet and result. The median net result of €5,050 is below Belgium's €16,500. Return on equity of 6.8% is below Belgium's 15.9%. Liquidity of 2.49 is above Belgium's 1.66.

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

Inflow and structure. Brussels holds 20.7% of the seats, against 12.5% in Belgium. 58.1% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. Half of the companies are younger than 6.9 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium.

Staff and filing. 33.6% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 234 of the 471 FTE: 49.8%.

Direction. Median solvency rose from 51.0% in financial year 2020 to 54.8% in financial year 2025. The median net result fell from €10,182 in financial year 2020 to €5,050 in financial year 2025.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 08-11-2026 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 85699 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 1,276,474 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,509 registrations publish no activity.

Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the annual accounts of financial year 2025, and is shown only from 30 accounts. A share (loss-making, negative equity) counts that year's accounts with that trait. Accounts are late when they are filed after the statutory deadline. The direction per financial year follows the companies still registered today. Missing or 90 days late counts the companies with accounts missing today, or whose latest were filed more than 90 days after the deadline. The dossier follows the same rule.