Disclosure
What our commercial arrangements do, and do not, influence. This page states it plainly.
1. Personal school search
Personal school search is a paid, adviser-led service, US$499 per family, one-time, bought from ICPLeads, Inc. directly. The family pays, or an employer, relocation company or other organisation pays on the family's behalf at an agreed scope and fee. The research, reasoning and recommendations are our own, and no school pays to appear in a family's recommendations or to influence them.
2. Services for schools
ICPLeads, Inc. separately sells two research and improvement services to schools: an Admissions Review and a Parent Experience Review. Each is a fixed-scope engagement about that school's own admissions or parent experience, with the scope, deliverables and fee agreed before work begins. Schools do not buy recommendations, introductions, leads, placement or inclusion, and no school payment influences the relevance, research or recommendations a family receives.
3. Relocation support
Relocation support connects families with independent relocation providers. There is no fee to submit a relocation request. Providers set and charge their own prices for any services a family buys, and we may receive a fee from a provider for a qualified introduction. That fee does not change the provider's price to the family, and a family's contact details are shared only with the providers it individually approves.
4. What that affects
- Whether a school can answer families through the service depends on it taking part.
- Coverage varies by location, so some relevant schools may not respond yet.
5. What paying never buys
- Whether a school is shown to a family, or how highly. Commercial arrangements never influence this.
- Placement. No school can pay for a better position than another school.
- Inclusion. No school can pay to be shown to a family it is not relevant to.
- Contact details. Payment never buys a family's identity or contact details; only the family can share those.
- Accuracy. Payment does not change the facts we present, or a school's own answers.
- Our editorial guides, curriculum pages and location pages.
6. Editorial independence
Our guides and curriculum pages are written to help families make decisions. Editorial decisions sit with our editorial team, and every page is judged on whether it helps the family reading it.
7. Independence from institutions
InternationalSchools.org is an independent international school platform and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by any curriculum organisation, school group or accrediting body unless explicitly stated. School and curriculum names are used descriptively.
8. Conflicts of interest
If we ever hold a financial interest in a school or group beyond the participation arrangement described above, we will disclose it on this page. We hold no such interest today.
9. Questions and corrections
Read more on how we select which schools to ask, report an inaccuracy through our contact page, or email hello@internationalschools.org.