Düsseldorf · time the Rhine
Düsseldorf is not a suburb of Hamburg. ISD is an English IB campus on Niederrheinstrasse. The 2026–27 page prints euros. Ask which paper the child will hold, then time that road.
Düsseldorf is not “the other Hamburg international.” It is a Rhine city with its own commute, its own Gymnasien, and one English IB campus posting families name when the life is not Groß Flottbek.
The portrait we have is the International School of Düsseldorf on Niederrheinstrasse. Use it for the 2026–27 euro table, including the one-time admission fee. Cub Club and cafeteria lines on that page are still labelled 2024–25; confirm the live year. This note is the city around it. The Germany country page is the wider map — Hamburg, Bonn, Frankfurt.
ISD sits at Niederrheinstrasse 336. PYP, MYP, Diploma, and the school’s own high-school diploma. English in the classroom. Add the €6,500 admission fee before you compare the annual line to another Rhine house. It is a day school. Time that road in January, not a June open morning.
It is not International School of Hamburg and not BBIS in Kleinmachnow.
Bonn International School is another official IB campus, a diplomatic town down the Rhine. We name it. We will not invent its sheet.
If you might stay, an English IB is not automatically the kindest paper. A Gymnasium that charges nothing at the door, a church house, a bilingual state school — those are official mornings. Families looking at ISD often also walk a neighbourhood Gymnasium in the same week, because the next five years may still be German.
The language of the yard is the test that matters more than the flags.
Hamburg and Frankfurt are not suburbs of Düsseldorf. Do not make the Rhine into one S-Bahn.
Ask whether Year 12 is the full Diploma, certificates, or the ISD diploma. Ask what the admission fee still is this year. Time Niederrheinstrasse on a wet Tuesday. Stay for the yard.
The city hub is the short map. The ISD portrait is the long one. The Berlin field note and the Hamburg hub are other German Tuesdays.
Friendly orientation, not formal admissions advice. Always confirm dates with the school.
An English IB campus in Düsseldorf, not a Hamburg Botanical Garden Tuesday and not a Kleinmachnow commute. The 2026–27 fees page prints euros. Add the admission fee before you compare it to another Rhine house.
MunichTwo IB campuses, one non-profit gAG. Primary can sit in Schwabing. Secondary sits in Haimhausen, north of the city. The 2026–27 prospectus prints tuition and a three-year entrance fee. Time that commute before you fall in love with the Schloss.
KleinmachnowAn IB campus in Brandenburg, not a first-district Berlin tram. Ersatzschule through Grade 10, Ergänzungsschule in 11–12. The 2026–27 pages print euros, including a reduction programme for Grades 1–10. Time Kleinmachnow.
BerlinA Jesuit Gymnasium and ISS by the Tiergarten, not an IB campus in Brandenburg. The school prints a new Schulgeldordnung from 1 August 2026 and a promise that money will not be the gate. We will not invent the monthly line the public page does not quote.
The letters on the leaver’s certificate matter. They are not the whole child. Here is how to tell them apart without a headache, and without pretending every door stays open.
16 minYou do not need a perfect algorithm. You need a few true things about your child, a boring list on the fridge, and the courage to ignore a beautiful campus that does not fit.
15 minTuition is the number on the homepage. The PDF is the number that arrives in March. Here is how to read the second one, without inventing a euro, a krona, or a deadline.
12 minSkip the question about last year’s average. Ask the ones that make a teacher’s face change. Then look at the corridor while they answer.