Brent International School Manila

Brent International School Manila is part of a Philippine educational lineage that began in 1909, when Bishop Charles Henry Brent founded Brent School in Baguio as a boarding school for the children of Americans stationed in the country. The Manila school itself is much younger: the Board of Trustees established it in 1984 in Pasig, Metro Manila, and it graduated its first twelve students in 1986. The campus later relocated to Brentville Subdivision in Mamplasan, Biñan, Laguna, where it operates today as a coeducational day school. It remains an institution of the Episcopal Church in the Philippines, with an ecumenical, prep-school ethos rather than a narrowly denominational one.

Academically, Brent runs an English-medium American college-preparatory programme from the Early Learning Center through Grade 12, layered with Advanced Placement courses and, in the final two years, the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. Brent was authorized by the IBO to offer the IB Diploma in October 1986 (it is not a PYP or MYP school); its lower and middle years follow US-style standards rather than the IB continuum. The school reports that roughly three-quarters of its students enroll in the IB Diploma, and its published May 2018 cohort posted an average diploma score of 33 with a highest score of 44.

The school is accredited by ACS WASC and is a member of the IBO, EARCOS and NACAC, is recognized by the Philippine Department of Education, and is affiliated with the Episcopal Church in the Philippines. It does not hold Council of International Schools (CIS) accreditation, and the Manila campus is a day school only - boarding exists at the separate Brent campus in Baguio, not here. English as a Second Language support is available for students in Grades 1-8 who need help building fluency.

Fees are unusual in that tuition is billed in two simultaneous currency components, a US-dollar amount plus a Philippine-peso amount. For 2026-2027, Upper School tuition is USD 9,680 plus PHP 444,496 per year, with additional annual and one-time charges including a Capital Development Fee, a one-time Matriculation Fee for new students, and an ESL fee where applicable. Inspection-wise, the Philippines has no graded national inspection band for international schools, so the school is rated on the strength of its ACS WASC accreditation.