P 85
Nursery, primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities, adult training centres, language, music and driving schools: for publishers, suppliers of school materials and IT, catering and transport who want to reach schools or training providers by post.
Our Belgian database holds 779,149 records (as of 5 November 2026); they are not yet assigned to industries. The quote states the size available for this industry.
Export of the whole industry: €329 (excluding VAT). Selections by province, municipality or your own filters are quoted on request.
Official statistics: 10,689 businesses in Belgium according to Eurostat, Structural Business Statistics (sbs_ovw_act), number of enterprises (reference year 2024, Eurostat update of 30 September 2026, retrieved on 4 November 2026). Section P education (division 85). The figure counts businesses in the SBS, not individual schools or sites; a school board with several schools counts once. This is the size of the market, not the size of our database.
The industry corresponds to NACE-BEL section P (division 85). In Belgium education is a matter for the communities: the Flemish Community, the French Community (Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles) and the German-speaking Community each organise or subsidise their own schools.
Besides compulsory education, private training providers are part of this industry too: driving schools, language schools, music and dance schools and companies offering vocational training. For anyone looking for training providers, that is often the most interesting part.
| NACE-BEL 2008 | Official title | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 85.10 | Pre-primary education | nursery schools, often combined with a primary school |
| 85.20 | Primary education | primary schools |
| 85.31 | General secondary education | secondary schools with general education |
| 85.32 | Technical and vocational secondary education | technical and vocational schools |
| 85.4 | Higher education | university colleges and universities |
| 85.53 | Driving school activities | driving schools for cars, motorcycles and lorries |
| 85.59 | Other education n.e.c. | language schools, further and vocational training |
A school is rarely a business in its own right. It belongs to a school board, and that determines what the KBO shows.
These 14 columns are included.
A publisher of textbooks writes to the school and its head, an IT infrastructure supplier often to the school board that does the purchasing. Tell us in your request at which level you want to work; the export shows the establishments as they appear in the source.
The language follows the community: Dutch in Flanders, French in Wallonia and German in the German-speaking municipalities. In Brussels Dutch- and French-speaking schools exist side by side; there the school itself determines the language of your letter.
Schools and non-profits are legal entities. An email without consent may only go to an impersonal address of a legal entity such as info@ or office@, with an offer intended for legal entities and an unsubscribe option; the named address of a teacher or head requires consent.
We organise school trips and are looking for secondary schools (85.31 and 85.32) in the provinces of Limburg and Antwerp with a general address and website, for a brochure at the start of the school year. Please exclude colleges and private training providers.
Use cases
Write to primary or secondary schools by province with new teaching materials.
Select school boards and schools for an infrastructure offer.
Reach the schools of one region for the new school year.
Find private training centres as partners or customers.
Questions
Yes, on request, based on the category and the name in the source (in the statistics, class 85.53 for driving schools, 85.59 for language schools and vocational training). Our records do not yet carry a NACE-BEL code; before quoting we tell you how reliable this selection is.
The export has no column for the language of instruction. In Brussels the language usually shows in the school’s name and website. Tell us in your request whether you want one of the two and we will check what the source allows.
Telephone prospecting to organisations is allowed if you first check the numbers against the Do Not Call Me list. Schools are often hard to reach during the day; a letter with a clear offer usually works better. More: telemarketing and the Do Not Call Me list.
10,689 businesses in Belgium according to Eurostat, Structural Business Statistics (sbs_ovw_act), number of enterprises (reference year 2024, Eurostat update of 30 September 2026, retrieved on 4 November 2026). Section P education (division 85). The figure counts businesses in the SBS, not individual schools or sites; a school board with several schools counts once. This is a figure from official statistics, not the size of our dataset.
Format, sources, price and the rules for email and phone marketing in Belgium: questions about all industries.
