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🇨🇭 International Schools in Geneva

5 schools, profiled on verifiable public data.

Geneva is one of the birthplaces of international education: the International School of Geneva (Ecolint), founded here in 1924, was the world's first international school and the place where the IB Diploma was created. Home to the UN's European headquarters and a large diplomatic community, the city sustains a dense cluster of English- and French-medium international schools serving globally mobile families. Switzerland has no single graded public inspectorate for schools — there is no Ofsted-style body that publishes an "Outstanding" or "Good" band per international school. Families therefore verify quality through international accreditation (CIS, NEASC, MSA) and IB World School authorization rather than a state rating. Because no verbatim top graded band exists to point to, we cap Geneva schools at A on the inspection-and-accreditation dimension: the A reflects genuine accreditation depth, and an S is reserved for a published verbatim top graded band, which the Swiss system does not produce.

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SchoolCurriculaAgesAnnual fees
British School of GenevaBritish3-18CHF 23,450–32,450
Geneva English SchoolBritish3-18CHF 19,000–35,800
Institut FlorimontIB / National3-18CHF 19,700–30,100
Institut International de LancyIB / British / National3–19CHF 16,870–30,390
La Côte International School AubonneBritish / IB3–18CHF 19,500–39,200

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