← Back to the rankingInternational School Hannover Region
Hanover, Germany · est. 1996 · Private
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International School Hannover Region (ISHR) is a private international day school in central Hannover for children from age 3 to grade 12. It opened on 1 August 1996 in place of a closing British army school: the initiative was backed by local companies, the Chamber of Commerce, the Lower Saxony Ministry of Education and the city, which provided the campus. The state recognises the school as an Ergänzungsschule. The school offers all three IB programmes: the PYP from age three to grade 5, the MYP in grades 6-10 and the Diploma Programme in grades 11-12; it has offered the DP since 1999, the MYP since 2002 and the PYP since 2006. Teaching is in English and all students learn German. In the 2025-2026 school year about 550 students from more than 65 countries attend; about 65% are children of families who relocated to Hannover from abroad, the rest local German families. The teacher to student ratio is one to seven, and the school employs over 100 staff.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $13 907–24 210 a year
12 310–21 430 EUR
Programmes
IB · PYP, MYP, DP
Admits from
3 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
English
Languages taught
German, French, Spanish
Students per teacher
1 to 7
Class size
up to 20 students per class in grades 6-10 pupils
Registration fee
≈ $5 084
4 500 EUR
About the fees Annual fees for the 2026-2027 school year: Pre and Junior Kindergarten 12310 EUR, Senior Kindergarten 14700 EUR, grades 1-2 17540 EUR, grades 3-5 17710 EUR, grades 6-8 19430 EUR, grade 9 19800 EUR, grade 10 20210 EUR, grades 11-12 (Diploma Programme) 21430 EUR. Fees include most books, except in grades 11-12. Fees can be paid in one instalment by 10 August with a 2% discount or in nine monthly instalments from September to May. Pro-rated fees apply to students joining mid-year. Financial aid is available on written request with financial documentation.
Admissions The school admits children from age three to grade 12 when a place in the appropriate class is available. Priorities: children of internationally mobile families with no local alternative; children of German families returning from abroad who were schooled in English; siblings of enrolled students; local families (with priority for those with international citizenship or who lived or studied outside Germany); children with a refugee background for whom the school offers the better or only chance of a school diploma. Steps: application form with previous report cards, an interview with the Head of Section, placement tests where applicable (overseas families take them at their current school), then a contract and payment of the admission fee, after which the place is guaranteed. Local children in grades 2-5 take tests in mathematics, English and German; from grade 6 all students take placement tests. Students entering grade 9 and above need enough English to access the Diploma Programme by grade 11. Placement is by age on 30 September; there is a six-month probationary period. Admission is non-selective, but the school generally cannot serve children with significant learning disabilities who need specialist teachers. Students living without a parent or guardian are not accepted into the Diploma Programme.
Stages and year groups Grades Nursery, Pre-K, K, 1-12. Full IB continuum: the PYP in the kindergarten (three classes for ages 3-4 and two for ages 5-6) and grades 1-5, the MYP in grades 6-10 (grade 6 is a transition year, the full programme starts in grade 7; Personal Project in grade 10), the Diploma Programme in grades 11-12. Alongside, the school awards its own credit-based High School Diploma for grades 9-12; without a full IB Diploma, the school notes, it does not give entry to a mainstream European university. Under KMK conditions the MYP is recognised as equivalent to the German Realschulabschluss, and the IB Diploma is recognised in Germany as a university entrance qualification. All programmes are taught in English. The school does not name any Cambridge courses.
Address Bruchmeisterallee 6, 30169 Hannover
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · PYP, MYP, DP · authorised programmeNEASC · accreditationThe school is listed in the IB register and runs the Primary Years, Middle Years and Diploma programmes. The school is accredited by NEASC.
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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), DP (ages 16-19). 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. 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.
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Average IB score
32.15 (world average 30.88)
Exam results IB Diploma 2026: 42 graduates completed the full programme and all obtained the diploma; the average score was 32.15 against a global average of 30.88, scores ranged from 24 to 44, 49% obtained a bilingual diploma, and the average subject grade was 5.08. The school stresses that its admissions are non-selective.
Where leavers go: Cambridge University · University of Oxford · Imperial College London · University College London · London School of Economics and Political Science · University of Edinburgh · Leibniz University Hannover · Hannover Medical School (MHH) · Technical University of Munich · RWTH Aachen University · Frankfurt School of Finance & Management · Bocconi University
and others, 16 universities in the school's list in allThe school lists universities its graduates attend in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, elsewhere in Europe, the US, Canada, Japan and India. A full-time university and career counsellor works at the school, and a higher education fair takes place every March.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
✓Sports hall
✓Laboratories
✓Theatre or assembly hall
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Art studio · Playground · Makerspace
Clubs and activities: Model United Nations · Entrepreneurship Club · Student Council · Students Against Trafficking · Global Issues Network · Yearbook team · Drama club · Strategy Game Club · Psychology Club · Floorball · Robotics · First Lego League · School band
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
✓Teacher qualifications
·Number of teachersthe school does not say
✓Students per teacher or class sizein the key facts above
What the listings show: School leaders hold master's degrees and doctoral studies from British, American and Canadian universities; kindergarten teachers hold the state early years teacher qualification.
The school employs over 100 staff from various countries, most full-time and with previous experience in national or international schools. The website names the leadership team and their education. The school has a 30-step salary scale for qualified teachers; new teachers are trained in the IB programmes. Most kindergarten teachers have completed training in teaching young children in English in multilingual contexts.
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 roomnot stated on the website
✓Counsellor
✓Child protection policy
✓Staff training
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The school has a child safeguarding policy based on the recommendations of the International Task Force on Child Protection and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Each year students receive age-appropriate personal safety lessons, and teachers, staff and parent volunteers are trained to recognise and report abuse and neglect. Teacher recruitment pays specific attention to child protection. School counsellors and an educational psychologist work at the school, and there is a dedicated address for safeguarding concerns.
Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)95 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 data70 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)90 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.
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