About
Why we exist
We help families moving abroad know which international schools to apply to, and why — with a named adviser doing the research for them.
A family tells us what they need once, instead of repeating the same question on many school websites. You see matched schools with places, and each school answers per child: the year group, the start date, the fees and what happens next. Two children in one family can get two different answers from the same school.
Contact details are exchanged only when a family chooses to share them with a school. Our role is to make the picture clear and then get out of the way, so the conversation happens directly between the family and the admissions team.
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 the question to the schools instead, and bring the answers back in one place, 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.
- Curriculum and examination authorities for anything about a system, its stages, assessment or qualifications.
- National or emirate-level education regulators for anything about licensing, inspection or fee frameworks.
- A school's own published policy for anything about that school's admissions, fees or entry requirements.
- 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. We do not rank schools, and no school can pay to be shown or asked ahead of another.
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.
Contact
General questions: hello@internationalschools.org. Our full contact routes, including for schools and press, are on the contact page.
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How it works
One request, answers from relevant schools, and contact only with the schools you choose.
How we select schools
How we decide which relevant schools to ask about your children.
For schools
Independent admissions and parent research for school leadership teams.
Accessibility
The standard we build to and how to report a problem.
Last reviewed: July 2026
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