Relocating to Luxembourg - need school advice!

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Hi ladies,

My DH has been offered a job in Luxembourg and I'm looking into the schools for DD (13 in March) and DS (10).

I've been researching ISL and St. George's but keep finding conflicting advice on which one is better. DS has ADHD and has some accommodations at school and DD is in gifted classes. Can any of you ladies who live there offer me any advice please??

Thank you so much!

The major differences between the schools to my knowledge are:

1. ISL uses an American style system and students eventually sit for international baccalaureate exams, whereas St George’s uses the British system and students eventually sit for A levels.
2. ISL is bigger than St George’s, which obviously gives each school pluses and minuses in terms of resourcing and connections, intimacy of class sizes, overall feel, etc.

I know people who swear by both, so I think it’s worth visiting both schools. It probably depends a lot on whether you plan to return specifically to the UK before they graduate, as in that case it may be good to go with the British system. I feel like I’ve heard, though, that ISL offers the best accommodations for special needs and gifted students. Happy to be corrected on this, though. It’s worth bearing in mind that ISL is by far the most expensive. I think somewhere in the ballpark of 15k/year for primary school, not counting the extras.

If the tuition fees at either of the international schools are prohibitive, there are also English speaking state schools (‘free’ European schools) that run on the IB system, though as they’re quite new I don’t think they’ve had much time to build a reputation one way or the other.

The new European schools are EB not IB schools. Very different.

Ah you’re right, sorry, it’s the Athénée I was thinking of that does IB in English.