Basisschool De Zefier

What Basisschool De Zefier does

Basisschool De Zefier is a small Dutch primary school (basisschool) located in IJmuiden, Netherlands, operating under the Atlant Basisonderwijs educational foundation. Founded in 2015 in a new building adjacent to Sporthal Zeewijk, the school serves children ages 4 to 12 across groups 1 through 8 of the Dutch primary curriculum. Its core differentiator is twice-weekly specialist-led movement education enabled by the neighboring sports hall, supported by a continuous day schedule (continurooster) and a structured healthy-lifestyle program.

The school operates a recognized wellness-focused curriculum, holding the "Gezonde School" certifications for Sport en Bewegen (Sport and Exercise) and Voeding (Nutrition), as well as "Rookvrije School" (Smoke-Free School) status and the "Lekker Fit duim" recognition. These certifications frame the school's positioning around physical health, nutrition, and movement rather than academic specialization. The organization has approximately five staff as the named management team and delivers instruction using standard Dutch primary education methods with the added physical-education specialization.

Basisschool De Zefier is publicly funded through the Dutch government's lumpsum financing model for primary education, meaning it does not charge tuition and receives per-student allocations from the government. The addressable market is the IJmuiden catchment area, and the school has no disclosed enrollment figures, expansion plans, or commercial partnerships beyond its physical adjacency to Sporthal Zeewijk. The business model is therefore stable, government-anchored, and constrained to a single physical site.

Name

Basisschool De Zefier

Legal name

Basisschool de Zefier

Website

https://zefier-atlant.nl

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Basisschool De Zefier is a small Dutch primary school in IJmuiden, founded in 2015 under the Atlant Basisonderwijs foundation, serving children ages 4–12 with a twice-weekly specialist-led movement education program and nationally certified healthy-lifestyle curriculum, funded via government lumpsum allocations.

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Headquarters

HQ city

IJmuiden

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Others

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Basisschool De Zefier provides publicly funded primary education (basisonderwijs) for children in groups 1 through 8 under a continuous day schedule. Its academic core covers language, reading, writing and arithmetic, supplemented by twice-weekly specialist-led movement education (delivered indoors at Sporthal Zeewijk), healthy lifestyle programming with supervised lunches, and participation in school sports tournaments. The school operates under the Atlant Basisonderwijs foundation and charges no tuition.

Product overview

Basisschool De Zefier is a single-site elementary school offering primary education services to students in groups 1 through 8. The school operates a comprehensive educational program centered on core academic skills (language, reading, writing, arithmetic) combined with an emphasis on physical education and healthy lifestyle. The institution provides full-day programming with meals, on-site gymnasium facilities adjacent to Sporthal Zeewijk, and additional resources such as downloadable administrative documents for parents (school guide, anti-bullying protocol, absence request forms, enrollment forms). The school is managed under the Atlantbasisonderwijs educational foundation.

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Products and services

• Primary Education (Basisschool De Zefier) Full primary education for children in groups 1 through 8 (approximately ages 4-12), covering language, reading, writing and arithmetic, delivered under a continuous day schedule with twice-weekly specialist-led movement education, supervised lunches and healthy lifestyle programming.
• Movement Education Program

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Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Sporthal ZeewijkcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2015Sporthal Zeewijk is the sports hall adjacent to De Zefier's school building. The school uses this facility for physical education classes. Students walk indoors to the sports hall, eliminating the need to walk outside in bad weather. This partnership enables the school's distinctive twice-weekly specialist-led movement education program.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Direct peers

• Other basisscholen in IJmuiden / Velsen: Neighbouring primary schools in the same IJmuiden and broader Velsen municipality. They compete for the same family catchment, follow the same Dutch primary curriculum and are funded through the same lumpsum mechanism, making them the closest demand-side comparables.
• Atlant Basisonderwijs (sister schools within the foundation): Other primary schools operating under the same Atlant Basisonderwijs foundation as De Zefier, sharing governance, administrative back-office and the regional North Holland footprint. Most directly comparable in operating model and oversight.

Emerging players

• Other 'Gezonde School' certified primary schools: Other Dutch basisscholen that hold the Gezonde School certification in Sport/Movement and/or Nutrition. They compete on the same healthy-lifestyle positioning and certifications, but typically without the dedicated twice-weekly specialist-led PE program and sports-hall co-location that De Zefier emphasises.

Broad incumbents

• Stichting BOOR: Rotterdam-based foundation running numerous primary schools under the same Dutch publicly-funded primary-education model. Comparable as a primary-education operator at foundation scale, but operating in a different region and significantly larger than De Zefier.
• INNOVO: Large Dutch primary-education foundation operating multiple basisscholen, primarily in Limburg. Comparable as another multi-school primary-education foundation under the Dutch system, though at materially greater scale and a different geography.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/deZefierijmuiden
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/basisschool-de-zefier

Compliance4 records

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Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

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Investments

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