International School of Schaffhausen

Switzerland as a country is known for its safety. Add to that the fact that Schaffhausen is a quiet town. This environment ideally supports the ISSH boarding programme where we help teenagers to become independent and responsible young adults who are well prepared for university life abroad and have a clear vision of their talents, strengths and goals for life.

Our centrally located off-campus boarding facility allows students to live a boarding life, which is not exclusively focused around the school campus. In the boarding facility the girls’ rooms are on the third floor, the common rooms are in the middle and the boys’ rooms are on the first floor. The boarders also have their own little garden. They join local clubs and are actively involved in extra-curricular activities.

It is our goal to develop the boarders into responsible members of a global community who freely contribute their strengths and talents. Our students learn to engage successfully with the day-to-day residential life and with the requirements of the DP programme through a structured system of guided instruction leading to increasing independence and a sense of duty. Schaffhausen is the ideal environment for developing independence and self-management. The students don’t live behind boarding school walls but they live near the town centre. They travel between home and school by school bus. They spend the evenings and weekends with their peers under the care of experienced boarding staff.

• International Day School: IB Diploma Programme with day students from 35 different countries
• College and Careers Counselling
• English: language of instruction with English Booster Programmes
• German language instruction: Beginner- Intermediate- Mother Tongue Level
• French: additional language