Stuttgart International School Comments/Experiences

I have been to the ISS which seemed nice. Their main campus is in Degerloch a bit south of the center and they now have another location in Sindelfingen which is about 20 KM south of Stuttgart. I am posting the following information from their website about fees. The website anyway has an English version. The main problem people have is to afford it! Unless people have a great paying job or the employer agrees to pay the fees, most would take the good but free public schools but of course instruction is in German.
Fees fall into three categories which are only refundable under certain circumstances, an annual Application Fee of €750 per student, a one-time Admissions Fee of €7,500 and the annual Tuition Fees which vary according to the student's grade level.
The tuition fees per student for the school year 2019 - 2020 (29.08.2019 to 03.07.2020) are as follows:

Grades 6 - 8     €16,000
Grades 9 & 10     €16,500
Grades 11 & 12     €17,630

I don’t know anything specific about the SIS in the Stuttgart area. In the internet I found out that it is in Stuttgart-Fellbach which is a bit north of the city. Their concept is to teach in both German and English but not just in English. The website seems to only be in German. Seems one pays a one-time fee of 850 Euros and then grades 5 – 10 a 624 Euro/month fee, for classes 11 and 12 the fee is 655 Euros/month, plus there is a 120 Euro/month fee for their lunch.

Unless you are staying in Germany only for a limited time (up to two years, I would say) and are sure your child will have to return to your home country system afterwards, you should definitely consider putting him/her into a German public school.
The teaching quality is generally good, attendance is free of charge, your child learns German quickly and effortlessly (there are preparatory classes for foreign kids with limited or no language abilities) and, last not least, it allows your child to have a school, classmates and a social circle in the neighbourhood, which greatly eases his/her integration, wellbeing and a feeling of "home" (rather than being an outsider).

Since you are Turkish, according to your profile: There is also BIL, a school for international kids, founded by a Turkish initiative (but teaching is mainly in German) - see http://www.bil24.de

Hello
Thanks for your replies.
I want my kid to continue his education in UK also Bil schools do not have a good reputation in Turkey due to incidents 2 years ago

I’d like to share review of SIS Swiss International School Fellbach.

With regret we have to admit that SIS School gave our son almost nothing but took a lot of money that could be invested in a far better way for our son. This school lacks professional teachers, as result one teacher can teach everything possible, like Sports and German and Sachunterricht etc. There were some teachers who allowed themselves to yell at children and use inappropriate words continuously towards them. There is also a lack of professional personnel at supervision times, when the staff simply does not know how to deal with children when it comes to conflicts.

The level of German teached here is very low and bilingual system makes it even worse, so this school may be OK for students that are temporarily in Germany and need an international environment to continue studying and know English. The students are allowed to do almost anything at this school and when it comes to bullying, the administration does not take actions for years, unfortunately.

There are great professional teachers and administrative staff at the school as well, but they cannot cover everything or change anything, as the main point of this private school remains business and what is important for earning money.

For those who wish to have a good possibilities for the future in Germany, I would not recommend this school to anybody. It is sometimes unclear if this is so or you just think it is so bad, until you switch to a state school and have possibility to compare.

@Alexander Radziyevsky Thanks for your review. Please note that yours is a single opinion, which should be taken into consideration together with other assessments, e.g. from school review sites (which this forum is not).

Also: Of course a private, commercial school wants to make a profit. And of course this can create conflicts of interest with teaching needs (which cost money).

Compared to German public schools, which are non-profit, free of charge and generally offer good quality of instruction (in German language), private schools in Germany are often worse - and therefore (as you said) recommendable only to foreign-language kids who stay here only for a short time (international schools), or to those who fail in public ones and can afford private teaching ("stupid but rich").

The notion that private schools are a higher league does not exist in Germany (except for a very few elite boarding schools, which then cost far more than SIS, and maybe the parallel Waldorf education system in the eyes of its fans). When in Germany, for the sake of your kids, send them to normal public schools if at all possible!