The organisation of the academic year 2025/2026 in Serbia is as follows.

There are several primary school variations that differ from the most common public basic schools:

There is no publicly regulated ECEC provision that is delivered in a provider's home.

Admission requirements and choice of ECEC setting

According to the Law on Preschool Education, an early childhood education and care (ECEC) institution at local level may have a certain number of separate units and may carry out its programme outside the institution’s main centre, through separate units for children in rural areas or through other means of reaching children in rural areas. These separate units have specific methods.

Steering documents

Place guarantee to ECEC

A network of state early childhood education and care (ECEC) institutions is provided by local government assemblies in accordance with the criteria established by the government, as specified in the Law on the Education System Foundations. In addition to these public institutions, there are also private ECEC institutions in Serbia.