Stavanger · time Hafrsfjord
Stavanger is not a suburb of Oslo. The portrait we have is an English-medium through-school in Hafrsfjord. The Board’s 2026–27 policy prints a Category 1 line. Early Years is a different sentence, because Stortinget sets that monthly price.
Stavanger is not “the international school.” It is an energy-town whose municipal grunnskole is allowed to be first, plus one official English-facing door posting families name in the first week.
The portrait we have is the International School of Stavanger on Treskeveien 3. Use it for the Board’s 2026–27 policy. Category 1 runs Kindergarten through Grade 12. Early Years is a different story, because Stortinget sets that monthly price. Lånekassen sits on the Grades 10–12 line the school prints. This note is the city around it. The Norway country page is the wider map — Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim, Skagerak.
ISS sits in Hafrsfjord, not in the city centre. English-medium from Early Years to IB, plus an ISS high-school diploma and IGCSE. Housing and the fjord road decide more than a league table.
Walk it, then a municipal yard.
If you might stay, an English IB is not automatically the kindest paper. A grunnskole that already knows the street — that is an official morning. Oslo’s three climates are another posting. Bergen stops at 16. Sandefjord is Skagerak, not a Hafrsfjord commute.
The language of the yard is the test.
Ask whether this family is Category 1 or 2. Ask what Early Years costs this month after the Stortinget line. Time Treskeveien before you fall in love with a Bekkestua open morning.
The city hub is the short map. The ISS portrait is the long one.
Friendly orientation, not formal admissions advice. Always confirm dates with the school.
An oil-town international school on Treskeveien, not in the city centre. The Board’s 2026–27 policy prints one Category 1 tariff from Kindergarten through Grade 12. Early Years is a different story, because Stortinget sets that monthly price.
TrondheimA state-supported English-medium house in the centre of Trondheim, not an Oslo IB campus. 2026 monthly fees are public. It ends at Year 10. The diploma years live elsewhere.
SageneA German-Norwegian Begegnungsschule in the park at Myra, not the IB campus in Bærum and not the French lycée in Frogner. Monthly fees follow Norwegian makspris. The leaving papers are the German International Abitur and the Norwegian Vitnemål.
SandsliA west-coast day school on Sandslihaugen, 15 km from Bergen centre, not Bekkestua and not Hafrsfjord. The Board’s 2026–27 schedule prints kroner for B1, B2 and C. Tuition A is upon application. The campus stops at Grade 10.
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.