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About InternationalSchools.org

We help families moving abroad understand how international schooling works, find the schools that fit their circumstances, and contact the admissions teams they choose.

Families use one form instead of repeating the same enquiry across many school websites. They get their own school search, starting with a focused shortlist recommended for their family and other suitable schools to explore, each with an explanation of why it may suit and a consideration to weigh, and decide for themselves which up to 3 admissions teams should contact them.

Our role is to make a family's options clear and to hand the conversation over to admissions teams as soon as the family is ready.

Why we exist

Families relocating internationally usually start with a browser tab for every school they can find. The information is scattered, presented differently by every school, and rarely answers the questions that actually decide the outcome: whether a child can be admitted into the right year, at the right time, in a programme the family can continue, within a budget and a commute that work.

We put that information into one structured place and use it to identify the schools genuinely worth a family's time, so a family spends its time on a real decision rather than on data collection. How that works in practice is set out in how it works.

Editorial standards

Everything we publish is written to help a family reach its own decision.

Where a claim is factual rather than a description of our own practice, it is traced to a primary source in this order.

  1. Curriculum and examination authorities for anything about a system, its stages, assessment or qualifications.
  2. National or emirate-level education regulators for anything about licensing, inspection or fee frameworks.
  3. A school's own published policy for anything about that school's admissions, fees or entry requirements.
  4. Our own operational practice for anything about what we do, which is described from how the service actually runs.

Pages are drafted internally and read end to end by a person, who checks each factual claim against its source before publication. Every page carries a reviewed date. Cornerstone pages are reviewed at least annually, and sooner when a curriculum authority, a regulator or our own process changes.

  • Every page is written for the family reading it, and judged on whether it helps them decide.
  • Editorial decisions sit with our editorial team alone, and are separate from any commercial arrangement with a school.
  • Anything typical rather than universal is labelled as typical, with a prompt to confirm it with the school.
  • We are independent of curriculum organisations, school groups and accrediting bodies. System and qualification names are used descriptively.
  • Schools are described factually, from their own published information, and matched on fit rather than ranked.

Corrections

If something we publish is wrong, we want to know. Email hello@internationalschools.org with the page, the sentence and the correct position with a source. We acknowledge corrections, verify them against a primary source, and update the page with a new reviewed date. Substantive changes to meaning are noted on the page rather than made silently.