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Wassenaar, Netherlands · Private
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The American School of The Hague (ASH) is a private, not-for-profit international day school in Wassenaar near The Hague for students aged 3 to 18. It follows an American curriculum accredited by NEASC: every graduate earns a US High School Diploma, and in the upper grades chooses one of two pathways - College Board Advanced Placement (AP) courses or the IB Diploma Programme. The school says it is the only school in the Netherlands offering the AP program. The language of instruction is English; Kindergarten and Grade 1 have a Dutch-English Dual Language Pathway. Students come from more than 70 nationalities, about 30% of them American. The strengths the school highlights are STEM, The Arts and Peace and Diplomacy: it is a founding member of THIMUN, and high school students take part in Model United Nations, Speech & Debate and year-long Sustainable Development Goal Academies in Nepal and Thailand. The average IB Diploma score in the May 2026 session was 34, with a 96% pass rate.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $22 962–32 762 a year
20 325–29 000 EUR
Programmes
IB · DP · AP · American programme
Admits from
3 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
English
Languages taught
Dutch, French, Spanish, German
Class size
15-20 students with a teaching assistant for the youngest, 20-25 students for older students
Registration fee
≈ $316
280 EUR
About the fees Tuition for 2026-2027 per year: Pre-Kindergarten I and II 20325 EUR, Kindergarten to Grade 4 23910 EUR, grades 5-8 27150 EUR, grades 9-12 29000 EUR. Tuition covers regular educational expenses, including laptop computers and core learning trips; meals, extracurricular trips and AP and IB exam fees are extra. The Special Education Program costs an additional 24300 EUR per year on top of regular tuition. The school has no discount policy or scholarships. Payment is in two installments: 75% on the first invoice and 25% due January 1.
Admissions There are no passport or nationality requirements; eligibility is primarily based on age: Pre-Kindergarten starts at 3, and children must be fully potty-trained; students must graduate before their 20th birthday. Grade placement is based on age on October 1 and educational background. Applications are accepted year-round online, one per child, with a 280 EUR fee; grades, test scores and transfer records are then uploaded, and the Admissions Team and school leadership decide. English: no English prerequisite from Kindergarten to Grade 6, beginner to intermediate English for grades 7-8, intermediate to advanced English with a required assessment for grades 9-10, advanced English with an assessment for grades 11-12; language support is limited in high school.
Stages and year groups Grades Pre-K 3, Pre-K 4, K, 1-12. American curriculum accredited by NEASC: Elementary School (Pre-Kindergarten, Kindergarten, grades 1-5), Middle School (grades 6-8), High School (grades 9-12). In Elementary a homeroom teacher covers core subjects, plus Dutch, music and STEM with specialists; the Dutch-English Dual Language Pathway currently runs in Kindergarten and Grade 1. Middle School students take Language Arts, Mathematics, Modern Languages, Science, Social Studies, Physical Education and a wide range of electives. All graduates earn a US High School Diploma; in addition students choose AP courses (usually 3-6 courses over grades 11-12, some from Grade 10, with optional AP Capstone) or the two-year IB Diploma Programme in grades 11-12. Students in grades 3-8 take MAP assessments.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · DP · authorised programmeNEASC · accreditationCollege Board · authorised programmeThe school is listed in the IB register and runs the Diploma Programme. Its core is the American curriculum leading to the US High School Diploma. The school is accredited by NEASC. The College Board AP Course Ledger 2025-2026 lists AP courses at the school.
school is in an official registryconfirmed by a school document, by membership or by taking part in a networkclaimed by the school, no confirmation, not counted in the scoreGuide to all organisations → What stands behind each entry
IBInternational Baccalaureate
A Swiss non-profit, working since 1968. Its programmes are among the most widely recognised school programmes in the world. Authorisation is granted stage by stage, so a school with the final stage does not necessarily run the younger ones; which stages this school holds is set out in the line below.
What the badge means for this school. The school is allowed to run this programme and to award its certificate. This is a confirmation of the programme, not a judgement on the school as a whole. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it. At this school: DP (ages 16-19). DP is the final stage, ages 16 to 19: six subjects plus a compulsory core of theory of knowledge, an extended essay and CAS. The diploma is accepted by universities all over the world, and in a number of countries it counts for admission on the same footing as the local leaving certificate.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →NEASCNew England Association of Schools and Colleges
An American accreditation working since 1885. For international schools it uses an approach where the visitors look first at live lessons rather than at folders of paperwork: the team works in the school for about a week. It is the only one here whose public directory honestly separates accredited schools from candidates.
What the badge means for this school. The school has been through this organisation's accreditation. It was judged as a whole: governance, safeguarding, staff, premises, teaching. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →College BoardCollege Board, the AP programme
An American organisation that allows a school to put the letters AP on a pupil's transcript. The permission is granted course by course and tied to a particular teacher, it has to be renewed every year, and College Board reads the course syllabus before granting it.
What the badge means for this school. The school is allowed to run advanced AP courses - not the school as a whole, but one by one: by subject and by teacher. Governance, safeguarding and the primary years are not part of that check. Which subjects are actually approved is visible in the ledger. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →AP
Advanced Placement: American advanced courses for the senior years. The exam for a course is set and marked by the College Board, not by the school. A good result is counted by American universities as a first-year course already passed, which saves a student time and money.
What this means for this school. A school does not get to call a course AP automatically: the College Board reads the course syllabus and approves it separately for every subject and every teacher, and the permission has to be renewed each year. Every approved school in the world is listed in the open AP Course Ledger, and this school's entry there stands as a line in the accreditation block above. How many courses a school is approved for, and in which subjects, the ledger does not show in its general listing. AP has no leaving certificate of its own: it sits on top of the school's main programme rather than being a separate system.
American programme
The American school programme, with the High School Diploma at the end. It usually comes together with AP courses, which the College Board stands behind, and with an American accreditation - MSA, NEASC or Cognia.
What this means for this school. The diploma is written out by the school itself: the American programme has no common leaving exam, and the content of the senior years is set by the school. Outside checking therefore rests on two things here - the accreditation of the school, and the AP exams if the school runs them.
Exams and destinations from the school's official website
Average IB score
34 (world average 30.88)
AP scores of 3 and above
95%
Exam results IB Diploma, May 2026 session: average score 34, 96% pass rate, 17% of students achieved 40+ points. In AP, 95% of exams scored 3 or higher, and 86% of AP courses had a pass rate above the world average. MAP results in reading and math in grades 3-8 are above global averages.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
✓Sports hall
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
✓Theatre or assembly hall
✓Library
✓Catering
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field · Playground · Makerspace
Clubs and activities: Model United Nations · Speech & Debate Club · Chess Club · Robotics · Sewing Club · SustainASH · Ceramics · Filmmaking · Fashion Design · Ukulele · Creative Writing · Swimming · Basketball · Soccer · Volleyball · Track and Field
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
·Number of teachersthe school does not say
✓Students per teacher or class sizein the key facts above
The school aims to keep class sizes for the youngest children between 15 and 20 students, with all teachers supported by teaching assistants; for older students classes range from 20 to 25 depending on the subject. The Special Education program is led by certified special educators; the Student Support Team includes occupational therapists, speech and language therapists and counselors. The school does not publish teacher qualifications or staff numbers.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
·CCTVnot stated on the website
·Security staffnot stated on the website
·Access controlnot stated on the website
✓Nurse or medical room
✓Counsellor
✓Child protection policy
✓Staff training
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The school has a Board-approved Code of Conduct and Child Protection Policy in line with the requirements of accrediting agencies and the International Task Force on Child Protection; child protection training takes place annually, coordinated by the Child Protection Lead. All employees are vetted with a Certificate of Good Standing from the Dutch authorities and confidential references. Qualified school nurses work on campus, along with school counselors; every high school student works with a dedicated counselor.
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)87 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data80 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data75 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)95 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data80 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 "Scored on disclosed data" stands where we count only what the school has written about itself on its own site: exams and destinations, safety and wellbeing, teaching staff, facilities, clubs and activities. A low score here means the school does not write about this, not that the school does not have it: a school with good security and a sparse site will score low. A school can fill in its profile, and the score will be counted again.
The score is counted from 8 of the 9 criteria.Only those with checkable data count: programmes and accreditations from official registers, the fee from a published price list. Where it says "scored on the median", the school has no data and the middle of the list is put in its place, so that a gap gives no advantage. Admissions, teaching staff and reviews come in as their data arrives.
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