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expat-services.ch lists 15 hand-checked schools and childcare providers in Basel, including Academia Bilingual School Basel, Academia International School Basel, Baselland International School (BLIS) and BKA International School (Bilingual Kids Academy).
They work in English, German and French. Every profile shows the services, languages and contact details, checked by hand before going live. See also Language schools in Basel.
15 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?Secondary school in Basel for Years 7–12: lower secondary (Lehrplan 21 and Key Stage 3), then IGCSEs and International A Levels taught in English.
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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?French-curriculum school in Basel from the maternelle (age 3) to the 6e class, on two sites; the canton lists it as preparing for the French and Swiss school systems.
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Is this your business?British school in Basel following the Cambridge International Curriculum from Reception to Year 9, with an Advanced stream that also leads into the Swiss system.
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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?Network of 80+ daycare centres across Switzerland for infants to kindergarten age, with after-school and holiday care; English and German programme options.
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Is this your business?Not-for-profit English-language IB World School for ages 3-19 on three campuses near Basel (Aesch, Reinach); PYP, MYP and Diploma, with an English-German option in the junior school.
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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?Childcare recruitment agency placing nannies and newborn care specialists with families in several Swiss regions; also recruits household and education staff and offers payroll.
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?Bilingual English/German childcare in Basel for children from 3 months to school entry, including preschool, kindergarten, after-school and holiday programmes.
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Is this your business?Geneva-based tutoring service with in-person and online lessons for IB, IGCSE, A Level, AP and MYP students, plus university application and learning-support help.
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Is this your business?Small school in Basel for teenagers, from school year 7 to IGCSEs and International A Levels, in collaboration with Wolsey Hall Oxford.
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Is this your business?Local facts
Kindergarten and primary registration forms for the next school year arrive by post in December, placement is near home, and early admission for children turning four between 1 August and 31 January needs an assessment, with a 31 March deadline (Volksschulen BS, checked ). Families arriving mid-year register four- and five-year-olds at kindergaerten@bs.ch with the Volksschulen at Kohlenberg 27 (Volksschulen BS, checked ). In the year before kindergarten, children with little German attend a German-speaking playgroup, Kita or childminder for at least three half-days a week; a playgroup half-day costs CHF 15 to CHF 120 a month, set by the premium-reduction group (Kanton Basel-Stadt, checked ).
After-school care (Tagesstrukturen) runs from 12:00 to 18:00 in kindergartens and primary schools. It is booked for a school year with at least four modules a week, the deadline for the next year is the end of January, and a lunch module costs CHF 14.65 at the full rate; in secondary school it is free (Kanton Basel-Stadt, checked ). The Beratungs- und Vermittlungsstelle at Aeschenvorstadt 52–54 (+41 61 267 46 14) helps with the search for a Kita place, and the contribution scheme caps a full-time place at CHF 1,600 a month (Basel-Stadt, checked ). See also daycare in Basel.
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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