Is the school accredited?

Learning carries on. Even without institutional accreditation the school issues reports and moves children up a year, so your child's school year and the documents that record it are unchanged. Accreditation becomes decisive later — at the end of year 9, when the state certificate of basic education has to be issued.

If accreditation slips, we apply again and tell you what the reason was and what we are changing.

Yes, and in both directions. The core skills here are learned at each child's own pace, so there is no missed chapter to block a move, and a child's badge portfolio is an unbroken record of what has been learned. If a transition plan is needed, we prepare it together with the family.

The middle school studio (years 7 to 9) opens in the 2027/28 school year, so a child who starts now can carry on here. If your child is in year 6 right now, we can talk through starting this year and continuing with us next year at the next level. And if the family chooses another school, a move is possible, because the programme is licensed.

They are three different things, and they are mixed up all the time. A licence means the state has approved the programme we teach: the first stage of basic education for years 1 to 6, licence No. V_9059, programme code 11011114.

State accreditation means the state assesses the institution itself — the school, not the teaching content. That begins in 2027. And IALDS international accreditation is an approval from the United States that every school in the network holds: it confirms that the school really does run on the learner-driven model, but it has no bearing on Latvian state requirements.

Yes — the children sit the national diagnostic assessments here too. They are the same state tests that children in state schools sit: self-directed learning does not mean skipping the national measurement. For you as parents it gives an independent data point alongside the badges and the portfolio.