Scholengemeenschap KSAS

What Scholengemeenschap KSAS does

Scholengemeenschap KSAS (legal name: Katholieke scholen aan de Schelde, KSAS vzw) is a Belgian non-profit Catholic school consortium (vzw) that serves as the administrative organizer and governing authority for six primary schools in the Waasland region of East Flanders, Belgium. The consortium operates across five municipalities — Kruibeke, Bazel, Rupelmonde, Zwijndrecht, and Burcht — serving approximately 2,500+ students at the kindergarten and elementary levels (kleuteronderwijs and lager onderwijs). Member schools include Vrije Basisschool Sint-Jan Berchmans (Rupelmonde), Vrije Basisschool Sint-Petrus (Bazel, two campuses), Vrije Basisschool Onze-Lieve-Vrouw / Pius X (Kruibeke), Basisschool Sint-Martinus (Burcht), Vrije lagere school De Krinkel, and Vrije Kleuterschool De Krinkelrups (both Zwijndrecht). Governance is provided by a board chaired by Karel Colman, with Helga Byl and Gerd Van Steenhuyze as vice-chairs, Erik Blommaert as secretary, and Anouk Van Hoijweghen as treasurer, alongside approximately ten additional board members. Operational leadership is split between general director Geert De Corte, two pedagogical directors (Bart Masquillier and Julie Kerremans), and a director of support services (Wim Van Ranst).

The consortium's "products" are its member schools and shared support services rather than software or commercial offerings. The underlying technology layer is modest and entirely built on third-party productivity platforms: Ksas-Mail (Microsoft Outlook via Office 365) provides email to staff and administrators, and Ksaskia is the internal intranet and document-management environment built on Microsoft SharePoint. Canva is referenced for producing internal mission-and-vision communications. There is no proprietary technology platform, no app, and no AI/ML capability disclosed. Distribution is purely physical: parents enroll children directly at individual school locations via the websites, phone numbers, and addresses of each member school. Marketing reach is limited to the ksas.one website, an Instagram account (@ksas_sg), and a Facebook page, plus the [email protected] general inbox and a [email protected] recruitment inbox.

KSAS is organized as a vereniging zonder winstoogmerk (vzw), the Belgian non-profit association form, and operates within the publicly subsidized Flemish Catholic education system. Revenue is not disclosed but is derived primarily from Flemish Community per-capita subsidies for primary education; no commercial pricing is applicable, and parents do not pay market tuition. The organization has no external parent company, no private equity or external investors, no funding rounds, and no disclosed M&A activity. Customer concentration is structurally low — the model is a distributed network of neighborhood schools — and there are no enterprise customers or commercial churn drivers.

Name

Scholengemeenschap KSAS

Legal name

Katholieke scholen aan de Schelde (KSAS) vzw

Website

https://ksas.one

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Scholengemeenschap KSAS is a Belgian non-profit Catholic school consortium (vzw) that governs six primary schools across five municipalities in East Flanders, serving roughly 2,500+ kindergarten and elementary students under Flemish publicly subsidized education.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

NAICS

Elementary and Secondary Schools (61111), Elementary and Secondary Schools (6111)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Preschool Programs within Private K–12 Schools (EDACABAM)

akta.pro secondary industries

Public Elementary Schools (EDAJAAAB), Public School Districts (K–12) (EDADABAA)

Keywords

• Catholic primary education
• Primary school network
• School consortium governance
• Kindergarten through primary education
• Faith-based K-12 schooling

Headquarters

HQ city

Kruibeke

HQ country

Belgium

HQ region

Europe

Offices5 records

Markets served

Core offering

Scholengemeenschap KSAS (Katholieke Scholen aan de Schelde) is a Catholic school consortium operating six primary schools (kleuter- en lagere school) across the municipalities of Kruibeke, Bazel, Rupelmonde, Zwijndrecht, and Burcht in the Antwerp/Waasland region of Belgium. The organization functions as a coordinating vzw (non-profit association) overseeing kindergarten and primary education for approximately 2,500 students through its member schools.

Product overview

Scholengemeenschap KSAS is a Catholic school consortium (vzw) that functions as the administrative authority and educational organizer for six primary schools in the Waasland region of Belgium. Rather than a technology product company, KSAS provides governance, policy direction, and support services to its member schools (Vrije Basisschool Sint-Jan Berchmans, Vrije Basisschool Sint-Petrus, Vrije Basisschool Onze-Lieve-Vrouw, Basisschool Sint-Martinus, Vrije lagere school De Krinkel, and Vrije Kleuterschool De Krinkelrups). The consortium also operates internal administrative tools including Ksas-Mail (Microsoft Outlook-based email) and Ksaskia (Microsoft SharePoint-based intranet) for staff and management purposes.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Segments1 record

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Microsoft (Office 365 / Outlook)coreTechnology or IntegrationKSAS uses Microsoft Office 365 Outlook for email communication (Ksas-Mail). Staff and administrators access email through Microsoft's cloud platform.
• Microsoft SharePointcoreTechnology or IntegrationKSAS uses Microsoft SharePoint for internal collaboration and document management through the Ksaskia intranet platform (https://ksas.sharepoint.com/sites/Ksaskia).

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• VZW Sint-Guido-Instituut: A Catholic vzw school organization in Belgium offering primary and secondary education under a centralized board structure similar to KSAS. Comparable as a free (vrij) Catholic school network competing for the same faith-based student segment in Flanders.
• Don Bosco Scholengemeenschap: A Salesian Catholic scholengemeenschap operating primary and secondary schools in Belgium with shared-services governance and faith-based identity similar to KSAS. It is a direct structural and operational comparable as another Flemish Catholic school consortium.

Broad incumbents

• Provinciaal Onderwijs Vlaanderen: The Flemish provincial education network operating primary and secondary schools subsidized by the provinces. It directly competes with KSAS for students in the same regions of East Flanders and offers a comparable subsidized alternative to Catholic schooling.
• Katholiek Onderwijs Vlaanderen: The umbrella organization for Catholic education in Flanders, supporting scholengemeenschappen and schools like those KSAS operates. It is the broader organizational parent network under which KSAS's member schools sit, providing policy, pedagogical, and HR support frameworks.
• GO! Onderwijs van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap: The Flemish public (community) education network organizing nursery, primary, secondary, and adult education across Flanders. It is the principal publicly funded alternative to KSAS's Catholic primary network within the same geography and serves overlapping student populations.

Regional players

• Stedelijk Onderwijs Antwerpen: A municipal school network running primary and secondary schools across a Flemish city region, comparable to KSAS in multi-school governance and publicly subsidized delivery but operating in a different geography (Antwerp).
• Scholengroep Flanders (example regional scholengemeenschap): A regional scholengemeenschap grouping schools under a single board in Flanders, comparable to KSAS in scale (multi-school, multi-municipality) and operating model. Serves as a near-analogue free Catholic school consortium in another Flemish region.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/profile.php
• Instagraminstagram.com/ksas_sg
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ksasvzw

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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