Malmö International School (MIS) is a municipal international school of the City of Malmö for children aged 3 to 16, an IB World School with the PYP (including Early Years from age 3) and the MYP. The school grew out of a single English class for all year groups opened in 1996 at Dammfriskolan through a UN project for the World Maritime University; it gained PYP authorisation in 2011 and MYP authorisation in 2016, and in 2018 dropped the Swedish curriculum to follow the IB curriculum exclusively. Since 2024 it has been in a new building in Hyllievång. The language of instruction is English, as the municipality states, and the school requires age-appropriate English. Education from PYP1 to MYP4 is free of charge; Early Years charges a maximum fee based on household income. The school ends at MYP4, after which students apply to upper secondary school; the school notes that fluent Swedish is required for Swedish upper secondary schools and advises long-term families to consider a Swedish school.
Key facts
Admits from
3 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
English
About the fees Tuition is free: the school is funded by the City of Malmö, and education from PYP1 to MYP4 is free of charge. Early Years (ages 3-5) charges a maximum fee based on total household income. If a family lives in another municipality, that municipality must agree to pay the school charges.
Admissions Admission priority: first, children of parents studying or working in higher education in the region and children of international families moving to Malmö or the region for a limited period for work or study; then children of families moving to Malmö who have attended an international school abroad for a major part of their education; then children living permanently in Sweden, subject to available places. Age-appropriate English is required. Students are placed by age: Early Years 3-5, PYP1 6-7 and so on up to MYP4 15-16. As the school is funded by the City of Malmö, families are advised to live in the municipality; if a family lives in another municipality, that municipality must agree to pay school charges before admission is secured. The same admission procedure applies to Early Years, and the child must be toilet trained.
Stages and year groups Grades EY, PYP1-6, MYP1-4. IB programmes only; the school has not followed the Swedish curriculum since 2018. Early Years for ages 3-5 (4 hours a day, play-based learning, 4 units of inquiry a year); Primary Years Programme PYP1-PYP6 with six subject areas (language, mathematics, science, social studies, the arts, personal, social and physical education) and the PYP Exhibition; Middle Years Programme MYP1-MYP4 for ages 12-16 with eight subject groups, including language and literature and language acquisition. PYP authorisation 2011, MYP 2016. There is no Diploma Programme; after MYP4 students apply to upper secondary school.
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 hallnot stated on the website
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their qualifications.
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 policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policy
The Student Welfare Team: school nurse, PYP and MYP welfare counsellors, school psychologist, learning support coordinator and staff, the principal and the PYP, after-school and MYP coordinators. The school works against all discrimination and has an anti-bullying team. A study and careers counsellor is available.
Reviews
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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 data65 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data55 "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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Malmo, Sweden · est. 1996 · State