Stanford International School

A New Cairo school in the Fifth Settlement running parallel American and British divisions, with AP at the senior end and IB Diploma planned.

Stanford International School is on Street 26 in District 2 of the Fifth Settlement, in New Cairo. The school carries no affiliation to Stanford University. It runs an American division and a British division side by side, with English as the medium of instruction, and offers German and French as additional languages. The American track currently includes Advanced Placement, and the school has flagged plans to add the IB Diploma.

Families speak well of teacher quality and the school's openness to children with mild learning needs, with some parents calling out concrete support for dyslexia. The school is best known to Egyptian families in the Fifth Settlement rather than to the international expat circuit. For families weighing it against larger names in New Cairo, the trade-off tends to be smaller scale and more individual attention against the deeper extracurricular programmes at the bigger schools nearby.

• New Cairo school running American and British tracks side by side, with French and German offered as additional languages.
• Parent comments on directory pages are positive and short. Recurring points are kind teachers, approachable reception and pupils with dyslexia coping well.
• Class size around twenty pupils is repeatedly cited as a reason for individualised attention.
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• Volume of review signal is low. Take the positive tone with the small sample in mind.