Create Schools

In Brief

If small classes, a later start and Cambridge A-Levels in a bilingual setting are what you're looking for, Create Schools is genuinely distinctive. Check the Tutzing location works for your family before getting attached.

Create Schools in Tutzing sits on the western shore of Lake Starnberg, about 45 minutes from central Munich by S-Bahn. It is one of only three schools in Germany offering both Cambridge IGCSE and A-Levels - which matters if you want a British-pathway alternative to the IB without leaving Germany. Around 100 students from 47 countries attend; maximum class size is 14. The school day starts at 10am, which the school runs intentionally to align with what the research says about adolescent learning rhythms.

Every class runs bilingually from Grade 1 - English and German in parallel, not as separate language lessons but as languages of instruction. The school holds the European Sustainable School Award, runs a Duke of Edinburgh programme and has an MUN delegation. A Maths Academy operates for students with a stronger quantitative interest. Bursaries are available for families who need financial support, and the flat fee structure of EUR 16,536 per year for all year groups means no price cliff as children move up through the school.

The school's size is both its strength and the thing to interrogate carefully. At roughly 100 students total, subject choice at A-Level will be narrower than at a larger school; ask specifically which A-Level subjects are available and what happens in years when a subject doesn't have enough students to run. The sign-on fee of EUR 3,000 is payable in addition to the registration fee of EUR 3,000 - that is EUR 6,000 of one-time costs on entry before annual fees begin. For families who want the intimacy of a genuinely small school with a real A-Level pathway, it fills a gap in the Munich-region market.