ACE of Brussels

Small Cambridge International school in Auderghem, around 80 students aged 3 to 19, classes capped at 16. Sister to ACE Ascend, the group's Cambridge online school, and best known locally for running structured on-site inclusion alongside its mainstream classes.

Cambridge Primary, Lower Secondary, IGCSE and A Levels through the same building. The inclusion programme, branded ACE Rising, ACE Plus and ACE Connect, brings speech therapists and occupational therapists on site and runs at a two-adult to three-student ratio for the inclusion strands. Childcare is charged separately at twelve euros an hour on top of fees.

Parent voice splits hard along the inclusion line. Families whose children have settled here speak warmly about the transformation in confidence and about teachers who treat children as individuals. The opposing thread, equally consistent, is from families who feel the inclusion offer was sold harder than the school could deliver, and that Cambridge exam preparation in the senior years has been patchy. Visit, sit in on a lesson, and ask how IGCSE and A Level results have trended in recent years.

• ACE of Brussels is a small Cambridge international school in Auderghem, with around eighty pupils in classes capped at sixteen. It also runs as a registered Cambridge Examination Centre for private candidates, which is how some Brussels families and home-schoolers find it.
• Parent voice on independent trackers splits sharply. One parent praised the school for personalised attention, calling teaching of "a very high standard" with staff who "clearly paid attention to and understood individual personality and learning needs." Another said "every child is important and valued based on their uniqueness."
• The negative voice is pointed. One parent in 2025 described facilities as horrible and said preparation for Cambridge exams was not rigorous. Another, in 2023, alleged the school marketed SEN support it did not deliver and that exclusion followed.
• For Cambridge A Level private candidates in Brussels, one local commenter said it is the only realistic option, with the trade-off that fees are high.
• Treat the picture as small-school: highly dependent on year, class and family fit, with limited room to absorb a bad placement.