The School
ZLATARSKI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SOFIA
At Zlatarski International School of Sofia, families from Bulgaria and around the world gather to experience outstanding education. Parents choose our school due to our rigorous, exciting and challenging academic program of studies. Students here enjoy an enthusiastic learning environment, because of the high quality of teaching, and because we succeed in combining academic excellence with a great range of opportunities outside the classroom. Our graduates achieve high results, which gain them acceptance in the most prestigious universities around the world. We educate students aged 11 to 18 in grades 5 to 12. Our students have come from Bulgaria, the United Kingdom, Italy, Georgia, Korea, China, Hungary, India, Israel, the Netherlands, Russia, the Ukraine, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey, and the USA.
About Zlatarski International School, Sofia
In 2025 Zlatarski International School celebrates 30 years since its foundation. Established in 1995 as an English language secondary school, authorized by the Ministry of Education, the school became the first International Baccalaureate (IB) World School in Bulgaria in 2003. The School was authorized by Cambridge International Education in 2010 and in 2018 we were authorized by the Ministry of Education to extend our provision to primary education. Today, the School offers motivated 11-18 year-old students a world class curriculum and stimulating opportunities, organized in three stages: Lower Secondary (Grades 5-7), Cambridge Checkpoint and IGCSE (Grades 8-10) and Upper Secondary: IB Diploma (Grades 11-12). Our students can graduate with a dual diploma – the Bulgarian Secondary Diploma as well as the full IB Diploma. Thanks to the well-designed learning pathways and excellent teaching, our students achieve outstanding results. This opens the doors for our graduates to the world’s most selective universities and programmes in the UK, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the US, Switzerland and beyond.
2025: Our Achievements in Numbers
- 25 School graduating classes and over 1,400 students who graduated from Zlatarski International School with excellent and very good results in the state matriculation exams.
- 20 IB graduating classes in the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme with over 800 IB Diploma graduates, 450 students with IB Diplomas and 350 students with IB Certificates.
- 13 IGCSE classes and over 600 secondary school students with IGCSE certificates
- 7 Cambridge Checkpoint classes and over 340 students with Checkpoint certificates
Academic Excellence
The school attracts some of the most ambitious students. It has built a reputation of academic rigour and its integrated international curriculum prepares students in various areas of knowledge – Languages, Humanities, Sciences, Mathematics and the Arts. Teaching and learning is based on collaborative planning across subject groups and year groups. Assessment is central to effective learning and we use it in numerous forms.
Outstanding Results and University Pathways
Our students achieve successful university entry to competitive programs such as Medicine, Finance, Law, Computer Science, Architecture, Design, Engineering, Economics and Business, Drama, Psychology. Universities prefer our students because of their solid academic preparation, their excellent command of English, their in-depth mathematical knowledge and their active participation in society. Our students have been accepted to Oxford, Princeton, Imperial, LSE, Caltech, Delft, Bocconi, St Andrews, Sciences Po and many more.
Beyond the classroom
Students at Zlatarski International School enjoy a varied series of extracurricular events and activities throughout their time at school – be it taking part in a school team sport, or dancing on stage, performing on a school instrument, finding an artefact on a school trip, making an interesting project, taking part in a charity event, taking up public speaking, being a school ambassador or exchanging ideas with a student from abroad. Extracurricular activities are at the heart of our school and they have a central place in our school community. Our extracurricular programme provides opportunities for self-improvement, collaboration and fun! It is organised in three sections: Creativity, Activity and Service.
School Community
Learning in a friendly school community, our students develop skills to adapt in today’s constantly changing world with self-esteem and confidence. We are convinced that a good education opens doors for everyone and brings true freedom. The School promotes independence of thought, respect for others, creativity, and a sense of responsibility for one’s own actions. It is the school community that makes it so special to be a student at Zlatarski International School of Sofia.
“The international perspective the School builds is priceless. Students develop skills to understand global society and to be successful.”
What Makes Zlatarski International School of Sofia the top choice International School in Sofia, Bulgaria:
• High expectations of students
• Teachers who are enthusiastic about their subjects
• A high level of discipline
• Strong examination results
• Excellent university placement record to leading universities in the UK, USA, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Bulgaria and elsewhere
• The most experienced school in Bulgaria to teach the IB Diploma
• The most experienced school in Bulgaria to teach the IGCSE and A Levels
• Care for every individual