← Back to the rankingGjøvikregionen International School
Gjovik, Norway · est. 2015 · Private
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Gjøvikregionen International School (GIS) is a private English-language international IB school in Gjøvik for grades 1 to 10. It opened in August 2015 with 30 students, started its middle school programme a year later, and now has more than 180 students. The school was authorised for the IB Primary Years Programme (grades 1-6) in 2018 and the Middle Years Programme (grades 7-10) in June 2019. The language of instruction is English; Norwegian is taught to native and non-native speakers, and middle school also offers German. For many students English is a second or third language, and the school supports families' mother tongues. Classes are small, with a maximum of 20 students. Grade 10 graduates often continue in the IB Diploma Programme at Gjøvik videregående skole. The school operates under the private schools act, and its fees are lower than at schools without state funding.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $3 273–3 481 a year
3 150–3 350 NOK a month
The year is counted as ten payments: the school does not say how many payments it takes.
Languages of instruction
English
Languages taught
Norwegian, German
Class size
no more than 20 students
About the fees Fees for the 2026-2027 school year: in grades 1-6 3150 NOK per month for the first child and 2363 NOK for siblings; in grades 7-10 3350 NOK per month for the first child and 2513 NOK for siblings. Fees are invoiced monthly during the school year. In addition there is an annual capital costs contribution of 2000 NOK per student.
Admissions The school welcomes students of all nationalities who would benefit from an English-language international environment; under its admissions policy it is open to everyone entitled to attend a Norwegian state school. Previous IB experience is not required. Steps: online application, school visit, review, offer of a place subject to availability. Grade 1 admission runs from 1 to 31 May of the preceding year (for 2027-2028 from 1 May 2026), and applications for other grades are accepted all year. If there are more applicants than places, priority goes to children of staff and board members, siblings of students, international students (by the nationality of the student or parents, academic language and time lived abroad, considering whether the child has a suitable local alternative), residents of the Gjøvik region, then application date. Applications can be withdrawn without consequences before 1 November, after which the family signs a contract and pays the first instalment. Decisions can be appealed to the county governor of Innlandet.
Stages and year groups Grades 1-10. IB Primary Years Programme in grades 1-6 (authorised 2018) and IB Middle Years Programme in grades 7-10, a four-year programme (candidate from spring 2017, authorised June 2019). All subjects except Norwegian and German are taught in English; Norwegian is taught to native and non-native speakers, and middle school has Norwegian and German as language acquisition. Classes have no more than 20 students. There are no upper secondary grades; after grade 10 students go on to the IB Diploma Programme or other upper secondary schools in Norway and abroad.
Address Studieveien 17, 2815 Gjøvik
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · PYP, MYP · authorised programmeThe school is listed in the IB register and runs the Primary Years and Middle Years programmes.
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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: PYP (ages 3-12), MYP (ages 11-16). PYP is the primary stage, ages 3 to 12. It is not a set of subjects but a frame for the whole school: learning is built around lines of inquiry, and there are no exams at the end. MYP is the middle stage, ages 11 to 16. There are no exams here either; at the end an optional electronic assessment of pupils' work is possible.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →Exams and destinations from the school's official website
The school publishes nothing about where its leavers go: no share going on to university, no exam results, no list of universities.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
✓Sports hall
✓Laboratories
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field
Campus: The school has moved to a larger building; the library is divided into primary and middle school areas with workspaces and a large collection of Norwegian books, uses an online catalogue and has a librarian. The student handbook mentions a science laboratory, a gym, a kitchen used for lunch, a locker for every middle school student and playing fields; there is no canteen, and students bring lunch from home. The after-school programme (SFO) runs in the morning from 7:00 to 8:30 and after classes until 17:00. Students who live far away or on a dangerous route are entitled to free school transport. It is a day school with no boarding.
Clubs and activities: After-school clubs · Student Council · Birthday Book Club · Scholastic Book Club · Book Week
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 team brings together educators with varied international experience. The staff page names the head of school, the deputy head and head of inclusion, the business manager, the PYP, MYP and continuum coordinators, the safeguarding coordinator, the SFO leader, 21 educators and 9 members of the inclusion team.
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
·Counsellornot stated on the website
✓Child protection policy
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policy
Under chapter 12A of the Education Act every student has the right to a safe and positive school environment; the school has zero tolerance for bullying, violence, discrimination, harassment and social exclusion, at school, on the way to school, on social media and outside school when it affects school life. The school must monitor, intervene, report to the head of school (or about the head to the board chair), investigate and take action; parents can refer the case to the county governor. Staff include a safeguarding coordinator and an inclusion team, and the Gjøvik municipality school nurse runs the vaccination programme. There are behaviour, inclusion, trips and ICT policies and a complaints procedure.
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)72 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data55 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data70 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data75 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data73 "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.
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