Shaping Global Citizens - A Gateway to the World

The International School of Boston (ISB) was founded in 1962 as a Jardin d'Enfants to integrate French language and culture into children's education.

With one of the first bilingual programs in the USA, ISB has an international focus and embraces the best practices and highest educational standards of both American and French traditions.

From the American tradition, ISB focuses on the entire child creating a strong sense of his or her self-worth. We value your child's imagination and creativity, and his or her unique personality. We will teach your child how to solve problems in the real world.

From the French tradition, ISB delivers a demanding curriculum with clear objectives taught by highly qualified teachers, a rigorous examination system, and a tradition of broad-based knowledge across many demanding courses, including philosophy. We will teach your child how to analyze situations and issues in the real world and in the world of ideas, and how to develop logical, coherent arguments.

In addition to the American High School diploma, ISB offers both the International Baccalaureate Diploma (IB) and the French Baccalaureate Diploma (Diplôme du Baccalauréat). The IB diploma is recognized at top colleges and universities around the world and often allows students to place out of college classes. The International Baccalaureate Program is very similar to the American Advanced Placement (AP) program, and emphasizes a second language and gives ISB students the International Baccalaureate Bilingual Diploma.

Throughout every aspect of ISB, the overarching theme is shaping global citizens.

In a literature class the emphasis is on the comparison between different societies and cultures; in Social Studies students examine world politics from both a European and an American perspective. All teachers are native speakers and fully represent their own cultures through their teaching.

Since 1962 the school has grown from just 15 children to over 500 students ranging in age from 3 to 18 and coming from over 40 nations.  The student population breaks down approximately evenly between French (1/3), American (1/3), and International (1/3).

ISB underwent a few name changes including Ecole Bilingue, The French-American International School of Boston, and is now the International School of Boston (ISB). ISB has four divisions: Maternelle (Pre-School and Kindergarten), Lower, Middle, and Upper School.

ISB is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC), the Council of International Schools (CIS), French Ministry of Education (MEN), and the International Baccalaureate Organisation (IBO), for the diploma program .

ISB is a member of the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) and the Association of French Schools of America (AFSA). ISB is a not-for-profit corporation under Massachusetts law.