Amed Honeycomb School, Bali | International Schools Guide

In brief

A small non-profit British-curriculum school in the fishing village of Amed in north-east Bali, parent-founded in 2022 and serving the local expat-and-Indonesian community.

AHS grew out of a parent home-schooling group during the pandemic and was constituted as Yayasan Amed Sentral Edukasi, opening its purpose-built campus in September 2022. The school follows EYFS through to IGCSE, ages 2 to 16, with a mix of expat and Indonesian teachers and specialist staff for Balinese dance and yoga. Classes are small and combined across year groups by necessity given the size.

Amed is far from the Canggu, Ubud and Sanur orbits where most Bali international schools cluster, so the catchment is the small community of expats who have chosen the quieter north-east coast over the south. For those families it removes the need to drive children hours into Denpasar or board them. Signal on academic outcomes is thin given the school's age, but the model is community-school, low-fee, and grounded in local context rather than premium international.

Reviews

A small, parent-founded school on the quiet north-east coast, opened in 2022 and still finding its feet. The pitch is a British curriculum delivered at village scale, with local Balinese children sitting alongside expat kids and the sea a few minutes away. Public comment is sparse but warm: families describe a more local, less performative version of international-school life than parents find in Canggu or Ubud.

Positives

Setting and community feel. Amed is calm, safe, and largely free of the expat-bubble feel further west. Mixing with Balinese classmates and village life is part of the daily experience rather than a marketing line.
Affordability for an international school. Annual fees of roughly IDR 54-87m sit well below the Canggu and Ubud international bracket, which is part of why families relocating east consider it viable.
Approach and ethos. British National Curriculum to IGCSE, taught through an inquiry-led, outdoors-leaning programme. Bamboo and recycled-wood Joglo classrooms reinforce the nature-school register the founders set out.

Considerations

Scale and stage. Numbers are small and the secondary end is still building out. Cohort sizes can be tiny in some year groups, which suits some families and limits peer range for others.
Staffing model. The school runs an international placement programme for trainee teachers and social-work students alongside permanent staff. Useful for energy and ratios, less so for parents who want a fully settled, long-tenure teaching team.
Location trade-offs. Amed is remote. Roughly two hours from Denpasar airport and a long way from the medical, retail, and extracurricular options families take for granted around Sanur, Ubud, or Canggu.

Location

Jalan Amed Celuk, Purwakerti, Kec. Abang, Kabupaten Karangasem, Bali 80852, Indonesia

School website

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