Welcome Letter From the Senior Leadership Team

On behalf of The International School of The Hague (ISH), we would like to welcome you to our School Guide. We are very proud of the quality of education that we provide for students of all ages and nationalities and can proudly say that it is a true international school with almost 2000 students on roll from more than 100 nationalities. Our vision is a better future for all, something we aim for through our mission to inspire personal excellence in our strong and diverse community. In this guide, you will see many examples of how we put our mission into practice.

The school provides excellent programmes via the International Primary Curriculum, the International Baccalaureate (IB) Middle Years Programme (MYP), Diploma Programme (DP) and Career-related Programme (CP). Our student results are excellent. Students are well engaged in the learning process both in and out of the classroom at all levels from the age of 4 to 18 years.

We are accredited by the Council of International Schools (CIS), and our next CIS Pathway 2 evaluation visit will take place in November 2024, in conjunction with the IB. In preparation for this, the school successfully completed a CIS Preparatory Visit in April 2023.

ISH is also a member of the Rijnlands Lyceum group of schools, a non-profit educational foundation that has schools in the local and surrounding area in Sassenheim, Oegstgeest, and Wassenaar. In The Hague we also have the Eerste Nederlandse Montessori School (ENMS) and The European School of The Hague (ESH). As part of a Dutch foundation, we receive subsidies from the Government. This enables us to keep our fees at a competitive level. The Secondary and Primary schools are key members of the Dutch International Secondary Schools (DISS) and Dutch International Primary Schools (DIPS) associations respectively, where issues such as benchmarking, inspections, and staff professional development are discussed.

We hope that this School Guide for the academic year 2024-25 will give you some useful and detailed information about the school, to supplement the information available on our website.

The Senior Leadership Team