Schools & childcare
expat-services.ch lists 9 hand-checked international schools in Genève, including Bell International School, British School of Geneva, Deutsche Schule Genf and Geneva English School.
They work in English, French and German. Every profile shows the services, languages and contact details, checked by hand before going live. See also Language schools in Genève.
9 providers
English-language nursery and primary school in Geneva for ages 2–9, teaching the English National Curriculum (EYFS to Year 4), with a bilingual English–French nursery.
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Is this your business?English-language day school in Châtelaine (Vernier) for ages 3–18, teaching the English National Curriculum to IGCSE and A levels.
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Is this your business?German school in Vernier for ages 3–18, following the German curriculum from kindergarten to the Deutsches Internationales Abitur, with French as a foreign language.
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Is this your business?English-language day school for ages 3–18: primary in Genthod, secondary in Versoix, teaching the English National Curriculum to IGCSE/GCSE and A levels.
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Is this your business?Day school in Grand-Lancy for ages 3–19 with English (National Curriculum, IGCSE, IB Diploma), French (Brevet, French Bac) and bilingual sections.
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Is this your business?Boarding school in Rolle (canton Vaud) for ages 8–18, teaching in English and French towards the IB Diploma or the French Baccalauréat, with a winter campus in Gstaad.
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Is this your business?Foundation-run international school with three campuses in the Geneva area for ages 3-18; IB continuum with bilingual English/French options.
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Is this your business?English-language day school in Aubonne (canton Vaud) for ages 3–18: EYFS, International Primary Curriculum, IGCSE and the IB Diploma, with French from age 3.
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Is this your business?English-language Montessori preschool in Thônex for ages 3–6, founded in 1998, authorised by canton Geneva for the first two primary years (1P–2P).
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Is this your business?Local facts
Running a private school in Geneva needs the education department’s prior authorisation, granted by its service for the authorisation and supervision of private schools (SASEP) and revocable at any time. The regulation states that the authorisation is not a recognition of the teaching’s value (LIP C 1 10, checked ) (REPriv C 1 10.83, checked ). The SASEP directory dated 8 October 2026 has 75 entries, 58 of them covering the primary level and 39 of those listing English among the languages used (our count), and the canton calls it indicative (ge.ch, checked ) (ge.ch, checked ).
A school whose main language is not French must give enough lessons in French for pupils to integrate locally, and one that follows a foreign curriculum must show it reaches objectives at least equivalent to the public programme. Teaching only at a distance is not authorised, and a school may sign a tuition contract or collect fees only after it holds the authorisation (REPriv C 1 10.83, checked ).
Published 2026–27 tuition at the international schools near Geneva runs from CHF 13,200 in Grade 1 to CHF 39,200 a year, with registration and capital fees on top, as each school publishes it (compiled in our Geneva schools guide). Every child living in Geneva who is four by 31 July must be enrolled in a public school, a private school or at home (LIP C 1 10, checked ) (Canton of Geneva, checked ).
Newcomers announce their arrival to the cantonal population and migration office (OCPM), route de Chancy 88 in Onex (ge.ch OCPM, checked ). Most procedures run online through an e-démarches account on ge.ch, and the counters open by appointment only. The deadline after arrival is 14 days (2026) (ge.ch arrival, checked ), and a first B or L permit costs an EU/EFTA adult CHF 65 (Canton of Geneva, checked ). The steps are in registering at your commune.
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