Berlin International School

Founded in 1998 in the wake of the Bonn-to-Berlin embassy move, BIS sits on Campus Lentzeallee in southwest Berlin and runs around 1,000 students from 70-plus nationalities through to the IB Diploma. Part of the Private Kant-Schulen foundation, accredited by CIS and MSA-CESS.

Curriculum runs IB PYP in primary, Cambridge IGCSE plus Berlin state qualifications in middle years, and IB Diploma at the top, with an on-campus early years centre at Kita International. Largest national groups are German, American, Israeli, Indian, British and Korean, and dual-citizenship students are common.

Parent voice is consistently warm. Active parent community, EAL provision through Grade 10 that absorbs new arrivals without slowing teaching, good relationships between teachers and families, and reasonable use of nearby Freie Universitaet sports facilities. Fees sit lower than BBIS, which families notice. The school's quieter weakness is that it is well known but rarely the loudest brand in the Berlin conversation, where JFK and BBIS get more airtime; for families who want a settled, IB-routed school close to central Berlin without the boarding-school feel, it is often the right answer.

One of the longer-established IB schools in the city, running PYP through Diploma on the Lentzeallee campus in Berlin's southwest. The feel is mid-sized, busy, and parent-rich, with a student body drawn from 70-plus nationalities and English as the working language. Michael Cunningham, in post since 2019 and previously senior head at Berlin British School, has kept a fairly settled tone. Academic output sits in the solid-respectable band rather than the top tier, German is integrated from Grade 1 and a meaningful share of leavers pick up the bilingual diploma. The Cambridge IGCSE strand inside the Middle Years offering gives families a recognisable external benchmark before Diploma.