Schools & childcare
expat-services.ch lists 6 hand-checked English-speaking bilingual schools in Basel, including Academia Bilingual School Basel, Baselland International School (BLIS), BKA International School (Bilingual Kids Academy) and Freies Gymnasium Basel.
Besides English, they also work in German. Every profile shows the services, languages and contact details, checked by hand before going live. See also Language schools in Basel.
6 providers
Bilingual German and English kindergarten and primary school (Years 1–6) in Basel, teaching to Lehrplan 21 and the Cambridge International Curriculum.
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Is this your business?Bilingual English and German kindergarten, primary and lower secondary school (to Grade 9) in Oberwil BL, following Lehrplan 21 with UK curriculum elements.
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Is this your business?Bilingual English and German school in Basel for ages 4–18: IB Primary Years Programme with Lehrplan 21, a dual IB and Lehrplan 21 programme in Grades 7–9, A levels in Grades 10–12.
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Is this your business?Private school in Basel from kindergarten to the Matura, with a German and English bilingual pathway from lower secondary leading to a bilingual Matura.
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Is this your business?Canton-approved bilingual German and English Montessori kindergarten in Basel for children aged 3 to 7.
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Is this your business?Group of bilingual German/English day schools from kindergarten to upper secondary at seven Swiss sites, leading to a bilingual Swiss Matura or the IB Diploma.
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Is this your business?Local facts
The public alternative is the bilingual Matura: all five state Gymnasien of Basel-Stadt, Bäumlihof, Kirschgarten, Leonhard, Münsterplatz and the Wirtschaftsgymnasium, offer a Swiss Matura in German and English, and the Gymnasium am Münsterplatz also offers the International Baccalaureate. Online registration for August 2027 runs from 4 to 29 January 2027 (16:00). Entry needs, in one of the two reports of the third secondary year, a grade average of 4.0 (P track) or 5.0 (E track) plus a weighted score of 34 or 40 in German, maths and four other subjects, or a voluntary entrance exam (bs.ch, checked ).
Before that, French starts in the third and English in the fifth primary year (bs.ch, checked ). Private bilingual kindergartens and schools need the same cantonal permit as other private schools, and two approved schools combine French or Italian with German (bs.ch, checked ) (bs.ch, checked ). Published 2026–27 tuition at bilingual schools in the two Basel cantons runs from CHF 8,400 for a bilingual Montessori kindergarten to CHF 34,700 a year for the highest published grade, and residents of Basel-Landschaft can apply for up to CHF 2,500 towards it (Montessori-Brigitte, checked ) (SIS, checked ) (Bildungsgesetz BL, checked ).
Newcomers register with the Einwohneramt of Bevölkerungsdienste und Migration at Spiegelgasse 6; from 2 November 2026 its counters work from a temporary building on Schwarzwaldallee, opposite Badischer Bahnhof. The deadline is 14 days (2026) (Einwohneramt BS, checked ): the date of the online booking counts, not the date of the appointment. Registration costs CHF 25 per person (Einwohneramt BS, checked ). The general steps are in registering at your commune.
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