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International Schools Database
Find, research and compare the best international schools
Choose your International School in 6 easy steps
1. Find Every International School available
Our expanding database lists every international school in 239 cities worldwide - that’s more than 3,000 international schools in total. Find all the options in your new home with one quick search.
2. See Every Detail
We find out all the nitty gritty details for you, and we contact each school to get extra clarifications.
Want to know if teachers are native? Info on class sizes? Get full free breakdowns? Extra curricular activities? It’s all here.
3. Tailor your Results
You can fully personalise your school search. Based on the preferences and requirements that you chose, we calculate your personal score for each school; so you can see the best options for you right away.
4. Create a Shortlist
Make a first pass among the already ranked schools and pre-choose your best candidates adding them to a list of favorites. Eliminate easily the schools that don’t make the cut, so your search is focused and all the info you need is close to hand.
5. Compare your Favorites
Weigh up your top choices of schools in one screen, comparing the criteria most important to you. We lay out all the key points side by side to help you narrow down the shortlist even more.
6. Choose ‘The Final Three’
Ready to make the final choice? Contact your finalist schools with a list of final questions and your details. With their answers in hand, you can now choose the lucky ones to go visit in person.
Featured International Schools
Check out a small selection of the best schools in our database, from every corner of the world.
Jakarta
Phnom Penh
Dubai-Sharjah-Ajman
Milan
Featured Cities
Check out a small selection of the cities in our database, from every corner of the world.
About the International Schools Database
We're here to help you make one of your most important expat parenting decisions; where to send your children to school.
The Problem
As expat parents ourselves, we know how challenging it can be to choose an international or English school for your children - especially in a new or foreign city.
First, finding all of the available schools in a foreign city is not easy. Second, the information that is readily available lacks any of the important details. And to make things even more difficult, contacting these schools to get answers to your questions is slow and frustrating.
Then when you finally settle on some potential schools, you end up spending yet more time chasing down the finer details that are relevant to you and your children.
We know it. We experienced it ourselves.
And now we want to make it easier for other expat parents out there.
The Solution
We have collected all of the important information about every international school in dozens of cities worldwide. We personally contact every school in our database to get answers to those questions that can make or break your child's experience in their new school. From fees to languages to extra-curricular activities, we've done all the research for you.
We know all too well that every family and every child is different. That's why you can personalise all of our research to your unique situation; search based on how many children you have, their ages, your preferences, and much more.
For example, you can choose the number and ages of your children, and automatically you will only see schools available for those ages (with prices adjusted accordingly). If you're only interested in a specific language or curriculum, you can search using those parameters too. Whatever you're looking for, we'll help you find it.
Don't take our word for it; here's what our users have to say
The information was immensely helpful
- Hitesh C., moving to Madrid with one child
Wonderful database
- Hyunju & Fabien, moving to Tokyo
Very easy to use and very intuitive
Thank you very much for your page!
I needed to research international schools to find the right school for my children, as we are moving next year to Malaysia. I was able to find a lot of very valuable information and references in the International Schools Database.
In fact, your page is very easy to use and very intuitive. It reorganizes all the data provided by me in the search for schools and offers me the schools that meet the required requirements.
- MªAngeles V., moving to Malaysia
Superb and very informative
I have been teaching internationally for almost 20 years now, having taught around the world in many different schools, systems, curriculums and countries.
The School Database website is an absolute delight to use. The amount of information you give us is phenomenal and the clarity of it is even more impressive.
In the last 20 years I have seen a lot of educational websites and only 1 or 2 (that I am still using) have managed to keep me interested. Yours made me excited!
Well done for your superb and very informative work.
- Bertrand M., international educator
It helped me a lot
- Leon V., moving to Kuala Lumpur
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What Cities are in our Database?
South East Asia
- Bali, Indonesia
- Bandung, Indonesia
- Bangkok, Thailand
- Brunei
- Chiang Mai, Thailand
- Hanoi, Vietnam
- Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Jakarta, Indonesia
- Johor Bahru, Malaysia
- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Manila, Philippines
- Medan, Indonesia
- Pattaya, Thailand
- Penang, Malaysia
- Phnom Penh, Cambodia
- Phuket, Thailand
- Singapore
- Surabaya, Indonesia
- Yangon, Myanmar
- and 23 more...
Central & Eastern Asia
- Almaty, Kazakhstan
- Beijing, China
- Guangzhou, China
- Hangzhou, China
- Hong Kong
- Jeju, South Korea
- Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe, Japan
- Nur-Sultan (Astana), Kazakhstan
- Seoul, South Korea
- Shanghai, China
- Shenzhen, China
- Taipei, Taiwan
- Tashkent, Uzbekistan
- Tokyo, Japan
- and 1 more...
Southern Europe
- Algarve, Portugal
- Alicante, Costa Blanca, Spain
- Athens, Greece
- Barcelona, Spain
- Las Palmas - Gran Canaria, Spain
- Lisbon, Portugal
- Madrid, Spain
- Malaga, Costa del Sol, Spain
- Mallorca, Spain
- Milan, Italy
- Rome, Italy
- Sevilla, Spain
- Valencia, Spain
- and 47 more...
Central & Northern Europe
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Basel, Switzerland
- Berlin, Germany
- Brussels, Belgium
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Geneva, Switzerland
- Hamburg, Germany
- Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
- London, United Kingdom
- Munich, Germany
- Paris, France
- Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, Germany
- Rotterdam - The Hague, Netherlands
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Swiss Alps
- Vienna, Austria
- Zurich, Switzerland
- and 58 more...
Eastern Europe
- Bratislava, Slovakia
- Bucharest, Romania
- Budapest, Hungary
- Prague, Czech Republic
- Sofia, Bulgaria
- Tbilisi, Georgia
- Warsaw, Poland
- and 5 more...
Middle East
- Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Baku, Azerbaijan
- Doha, Qatar
- Dubai-Sharjah-Ajman, UAE
- Istanbul, Turkey
- Kuwait City, Kuwait
- Limassol, Cyprus
- Manama, Bahrain
- Muscat, Oman
- Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Americas
- Bogota, Colombia
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Chicago, USA
- Lima, Peru
- Mexico City, Mexico
- New York City, USA
- Panama City, Panama
- Quito, Ecuador
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- San Francisco Bay Area, USA
- San Jose, Costa Rica
- Santiago, Chile
- Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
- São Paulo, Brazil
- Toronto, Canada