ISR International School on the Rhine is an all-day school offering an excellent international kindergarten and school education to over 1,200 students. The ultra-modern campus of ISR (150,000 m²), which was founded in 2003, lies close to the Neuss city forest. In a branch of the ISR Kindergarten, children from the age of three are prepared for elementary school in a multilingual environment in Düsseldorf-Oberkassel.

In addition to our international and English-language educational facilities in Neuss and Düsseldorf, a German-language kindergarten in Meerbusch for children from the age of one is part of the ISR Educational Group.

Living and learning at ISR is guided by the motto: We Enable Great Minds and Strong Characters. Academic excellence and positive character development are top priorities at ISR.

Our motto? It’s cool to be good!

The language of instruction at ISR is English, with German taught as a required subject. Our mission is to prepare our students for prestigious universities around the world in order to provide children with a happy and fulfilling future. On their way to the university of their choice, we constantly accompany our students, in close cooperation with their parents, and together we find out how we can support them in the best possible way. Our internal university and career counseling team sits down with the students as early as 8th grade to discuss course choices as well as the children’s wishes and dreams, and to walk the path to success together with them.

In addition, we place great value on friendly interaction, the positive development of our students, and our international community – the ISR Family. 60 nations come together at ISR, which promotes cultural diversity as a great added value. We celebrate international festivals such as Diwali, Chinese New Year, Bunka No Hi, Halloween and St. Martin – traditions from all over the world that enrich our international school community.

ISR offers an international, college-preparatory curriculum. In addition to English and German, a third language is studied starting in Grade 6 with a choice of either French, Spanish, Japanese or Chinese.

In Grades 9 and 10, students are prepared for external examinations such as Cambridge IGCSE – International General Certificate of Secondary Education, DELE – Diplomas de Español como Lengua Extranjera and DELF – Diplôme d’Etudes en langue Française.

ISR offers the International Baccalaureate (IB) for students in grades 11 and 12 and ISR graduates have achieved marks well above the worldwide and German averages and have gone on to study at top universities around the world and in Germany.

We have an outstanding track record qualifying ISR students for studies at universities in Germany. In the past three years, 100% of our students, who wished to, entered German universities by meeting special German IB requirements which qualify passing students for their “Allgemeine Hochschulreife”.

We offer more than 90 different activities by students, teachers, parents, and outside instructors which give our students the chance to explore their talents and broaden their knowledge, such as:

Art Workshop, Athletics, Badminton, Ballet, Baseball, Basketball, Chess, Chinese / Japanese / Persian / Turkish / Spanish, Circuits, Choir, Crafts, Drama, Football, Golf, Gymnastics, Instrumental Sessions, KUMON / Math Club, Orchestra, Racket Sports, Reading Clubs, Rock Band, Running, Volleyball, Capoeira, Fencing, Tennis, Kung Fu, and more.

Our students have the opportunity to join ISR teams in a wide variety of sports and participate in regional and national competitions. For example, there is a close partnership with the PSV Neuss soccer club, which trains at the district sports facility belonging to ISR. In addition, ISR sports teams regularly participate in tournaments in the region and represent ISR locally!

Musically inclined children will appreciate the high-quality music program and talented and dedicated teaching staff. We have a wide variety of instruments available for our students to use. In addition, private music lessons are offered in cooperation with a local music school. Children are able to showcase their talents to the ISR community at two major concerts per year and other performances.

Artistically minded children have a lot of fun in our art program. Here they can experiment with various artistic forms, colors, and techniques. The numerous works of art are regularly exhibited within the school building and also presented at various events, such as the ISR International Spring Festival, ISR Open House, and ISR Family Fun & Sports Day.