Since being founded in 1995, the British School of Bahrain (BSB) has been delivering outstanding holistic UK-based education to the community of Bahrain, earning its place among the ‘Top 25 Schools to Watch’ worldwide, in Carfax’s Global School Index.
With its continuous commitment to providing high-quality education rooted in character-forming values and its student-centred ethos, BSB students are taught to strive to achieve excellence, embrace responsibility towards their learning and show respect and compassion towards others. Supporting 21st Century Skills, the school’s curriculum is designed to nurture the characters of young individuals by fostering values and developing their academic, sporting and artistic talents.
BSB is the most awarded school in Bahrain, achieving not only the best A Level and GCSE results in the country for the last four years but also being recognised internationally for its excellence by winning seven individual awards in the last two years, including a prestigious Independent School of the Year Award in 2023.
The purpose-built campus, in Hamala, hosts families of more than 90 different nationalities, making it the most diverse school in Bahrain. The school is an all-through campus that provides education to students from ages 3 to 18 years on one site, boasting bespoke facilities for sports, performing arts, science and technology, and its Inspired Approach to Early Learning for its Infant School. BSB has consistently received an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the Education and Training Quality Authority (BQA) and in its British Schools Overseas inspection (BSO). The school is also a member of the Council of British International Schools (COBIS), and British Schools in the Middle East (BSME).
The BSB is renowned for its innovative teaching, use of technology and culture of academic enrichment which led BSB to win the GESS Education Award last year. The recent introduction of Inspired AI and the Metaverse, starting from the BSB Infant School, continues to enhance BSB’s student’s learning experiences and allows students to generate ideas and solutions, fostering creativity and innovation.
As parents have come to expect from a school of the calibre of BSB, achieving the highest A-Level results in Bahrain for the last four years has opened the doors of the best universities in the world, and Bahraini students have secured prestigious Crown Prince Scholarships. A world-renowned BSB education has prepared its graduates to join some of the world’s best universities, equipped with the knowledge and skills that will enable them to be leaders in their chosen careers. The school could not be prouder that 90 percent of its graduates are accepted into their first choice of university, including Oxbridge, Ivy League and Russell Group universities.
BSB students have a passion for learning and clearly understand the world they want to live in. For two consecutive years, the school has been recognised for its environmental efforts in the community, with the most recent award from the Independent Schools of the Year for its environmental initiatives.
BSB parents also have unparalleled access to the school with special classes especially created for them, which include Arts, Pilates, Arabic Language, Yoga and much more. BSB strongly believes that a happy family means a happy child and that a happy child will succeed at school.
This year, the school has been shortlisted for six awards, including Student Well-being, School Leadership, Sustainability Initiatives, and International School of the Year. This is a testament to the school’s commitment to excellence, making it the right school of choice for your family in Bahrain.