60+ Nationalities Represented

MIS was founded in 1966 as one of the earliest examples of international education. We believe that diversity is a core component of our identity, a source of strength, and one of the most important keys to our success.

Through diversity and inclusive practices, we prepare students for principled engagement in the world. Our students and staff learn to value, appreciate, and celebrate the unique knowledge, perspectives, and experiences that each member of our community contributes.

57 Year History

MIS was founded as a non-profit organization 57 years ago.  On the morning of September 19, 1966, Munich International School opened its doors for the first time to 120 students in grades Reception through 8.  Prior to MIS, the only English-language medium school in the area was operated by the American military.  As the US Army reduced its Munich-based forces, the diplomatic and corporate communities were expanding operations in Munich.  The need for an international school serving a diverse and mobile expat community became essential.   

Through initial donations and a growing need for international schooling, MIS was able to immediately invest in a larger campus.  One of MIS’s first teachers, Ingrid Hesse, remembers that when the school moved to the Schloss just a couple years after opening its doors, “it wasn’t cleaned.”  So, the teachers swept out the historic castle and began teaching.   

At that point, the Schloss was the single building at the school.  The barns were later converted into the Senior School and all the other buildings on our campus have been built over multiple decades. We now serve 1300+ students and their families.

95% Carbon-Neutral Campus

MIS is a Three-Star Eco School, the first international school to achieve this award. MIS has received this highest award for the seventh year in recognition of the work our students and teachers have accomplished on sustainability and environment-related projects.

As of now, MIS has achieved 95% carbon-neutral status, always auditing our operations and activities to increase sustainability and decrease our impact on the environment.

3 Different Makers' Spaces

Because the International Baccalaureate curriculum is based on an interdisciplinary and real-world approach to learning, Makers' Spaces are essential to the learning process.  Makers' Spaces allow students to apply the design-thinking process to designing, prototyping, creating, and constructing.  

A highlight of the Primary School is the 80qm Makers' Space. This is a co-teaching space with high-tech and low-tech materials for basic coding, robotics, woodworking, and prototyping. The outdoor Makers' Space and fort-building area allow for messier builds.  

The Language Arts & Design Center (LADC) is a separate building that houses woodworking and design classrooms, art studios, as well as an expansive Middle & Senior School Makers' Laboratory, featuring a media production studio used for live-streaming, podcasting, and student-produced audio and visual production. The Lab also includes a bike repair station, an outdoor area for gardening and habitat-building, electronics, robotics, multiple 3D printers, 3D pens, sewing machines, looms and materials for textile creation, pottery wheels, a kiln, laser-cutters, woodworking tools, and much more. Middle and Senior School students have access to the Makers' Lab for class projects, clubs, and after-school activities.

Quadruple Gymnasium

Our interior spaces are as vast as the outdoor areas. MIS is fortunate to have recently opened a triple-level quadruple gymnasium called the Fitness and Athletics Building (FAB). The FAB also houses a dance studio, fitness centre, a canteen, and multiple locker rooms.

5 Age-Appropriate Playgrounds

Families and faculty pass safely from the parking and drop-off area through the iconic "rainbow tunnel," emerging to an expansive view of the Alps on the right, the impressive facade of the Schloss to the left, and a series of adventurous play areas to the front.

Shaded pathways meander through the campus, leading to multiple organic gardens, communal seating and relaxation areas, al fresco cafe seating, outdoor basketball and tennis courts, a regulation track & field, the recess meadow, the outdoor Makers' Space and fort-building area, and five different age-appropriate playgrounds.

What is even more exciting is that task forces of MIS primary school students have designed our most recent play area, "the Octagon," and another student team from 3rd-grade is designing the new Early Childhood playground - with plans for even more play areas coming soon!

100+ Student Life Programme Activities

100% IB Diploma Programme Pass Rate

Through exceptional support from world-class educators, the graduating Class of 2023 achieved a 100% IB Diploma Programme pass rate. (World average pass rate = 79.6%)

 

36 Average IB Diploma Points

Not only did 100% of the Class of 2023 who attempted the IB Diploma Programme graduate with an IB Diploma, but the average Diploma points was 36. To provide perspective, the world average is 30.2.

As the IB Diploma Programme is one of the most rigorous programmes in the world, graduates from MIS are poised for competitive advantage for entry into top colleges and universities throughout the world.