Cologne International School

What would you give for a brief look into the future? At COLOGNE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL – Internationale Friedensschule Köln – we get a little insight every day into the world of tomorrow – and that fills us with pride and confidence.

Our children are the future; to make a positive and meaningful impact, they need to have the best set of tools available. As a forward-looking bilingual primary school and IB World School in the heart of Cologne, exactly this is our objective. We empower our young students to ask questions, to think independently and to shape their own learning paths – skills which will be increasingly valuable in their secondary schooling and beyond.

Our school is colorful and diverse – we teach children from more than 45 different nationalities. Our students encounter other cultures, religions and perspectives with an open and welcoming mind, as they are also learning about their own backgrounds. We give our children wings, together with the safe feeling of also knowing their roots. We want them to live life and to love learning!

Academics are of course extremely important, but they are not everything. Cologne International School is so much more than an educational institution. We also emphasize the social, emotional and physical well-being of our children and support the balanced development of their characters through the IB Learner Profile.

Our young students have numerous, diverse opportunities to be creative, try new things and test their limits. They have time to discover their interests and foster their talents. This is the ideal starting point for active learning – a whole life long. And it fosters our primary students’ development into responsible, open-minded world citizens. We can rest assured that they will create a more peaceful and respectful, intercultural world for themselves and others.

We offer preparation courses for the Cambridge English Qualifications for Young Learners in every level, from KET (A2/beginners) through to CPE (C2/proficient). Our students have consistently enjoyed a very high success rate – scoring 12-15 points higher than the worldwide average – and tend to receive their language certificates at an earlier-than-average expected age.

Cologne International School has always been committed to providing our students with an individualized learning experience. Until now, this has been achieved by operating two secondary schools, providing students with access to both the German and International learning models.

We are pleased and proud to announce that from August 2022 we are finally uniting these two school forms into one, providing our students with more choice of learning paths in English and German from Grades 1 to 12.