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expat-services.ch lists 3 hand-checked English-speaking schools and childcare providers in Wädenswil: globegarden, Spanischkurs Zürich and Zurich International School (ZIS).
Besides English, they also work in German, French, Italian and Spanish. Every profile shows the services, languages and contact details, checked by hand before going live.
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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?Private 1:1 Spanish lessons for adults, 100% online, with Alejandro Rivero, Spanish Language Expert with 25+ years of teaching experience.
Non-profit IB day school for ages 3-18 south of Zurich, with a primary campus in Wädenswil and a secondary campus in Adliswil; AP courses and an English/German bilingual pathway.
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Is this your business?Local facts
Wädenswil's public primary school has its own school board and administration. The Schulverwaltung at Eintrachtstrasse 24 (044 789 74 40) opens Monday to Wednesday mornings, Monday to Thursday afternoons and Friday from 07:00 to 14:00 (Primarschule Wädenswil, checked ). Teaching is organised in the units Au, Eidmatt, Gerberacher-Berg, Glärnisch, Schönenberg-Hütten and Untermosen plus a Kleingruppenschule, with a separate Oberstufenschule for lower secondary level (Primarschule Wädenswil, checked ). School psychology is shared with other municipalities of the Horgen district through a joint association (Stadt Wädenswil, checked ).
With 26,012 (31 Dec 2025) (FSO STATPOP, checked ) residents and a town that is still growing, the school board published a school-space master plan in December 2024 to plan buildings for the next 10 to 20 years (Primarschule Wädenswil, checked ). After-school care runs under a tariff regulation and general terms valid since 1 August 2024, both in the city's legal collection, and a head of care at Eintrachtstrasse 24 leads the service (Stadt Wädenswil, checked ) (Primarschule Wädenswil, checked ).
The register of approved private schools lists four entries in Wädenswil: two schools covering kindergarten to lower secondary, the Lower School of one of the canton's five foreign-language schools at Steinacherstrasse 140, and that school's bilingual programme for kindergarten to second class, which names the same campus (Volksschulamt, checked ). Foreign-language schools admit only children whose families are in the canton temporarily, plan to move abroad or are finishing schooling begun elsewhere (Volksschulamt, checked ).
Newcomers register in person at the Einwohnerdienste (044 789 72 22) or through the eUmzugCH platform within 14 days (2026) (Stadt Wädenswil, checked ); anyone registering in person deregisters at the previous municipality first (Stadt Wädenswil, checked ). The fee is CHF 40 per adult, plus the fee for updating a foreign-national permit card, and people arriving from abroad can fill in the residence application in advance (Stadt Wädenswil, checked ). See registering at your commune.
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