Stockholm · name the connection
Stockholm is not one international campus. It is a two-site IB house with an international-connection test, and a British-rooted house in Danderyd. A municipal skolpeng may reduce what you pay. It is not a neighbourhood friskola.
Stockholm is not “the international school.” It is a Swedish city whose kommunala mornings are allowed to be first, plus two official English-facing doors posting families name in the first week.
The portraits we have are Stockholm International School and the British International School of Stockholm. Use them for kronor tables. Both print 2026–27. Both change if the child is registered with a kommun. This note is the city between them. The Sweden country page is the wider map.
SIS sits on Johannesgatan (primary) and Norra Latin on Drottninggatan (middle and upper). IB continuum. You cannot treat it like a neighbourhood friskola. The admissions pages require an “international connection.” A municipal skolpeng may reduce what you pay — the school says that is usual, not guaranteed.
BISS sits on two Danderyd sites — Altorp in Djursholm and Ekeby. Official site bisstockholm.se. Not a Nord Anglia campus, and not SIS. British-rooted, IGCSE, then IB. The fee table only holds if the child is registered with a kommun.
They share a metropolitan Tuesday and almost no Monday. Walk both, then a municipal school, so you can hear which language the child relaxes in.
If you might stay, an English IB is not automatically the kindest paper. A kommunal school, a friskola that still teaches in Swedish — those are official mornings. Danderyd is not a footnote to Norra Latin. Time both.
The language of the yard is the test. A child can thrive in English at 9 a.m. and still be lonely at 11 if the park is speaking Swedish.
Ask whether this family meets SIS’s international-connection sentences. Ask both what the bill is with and without a personal number. Ask BISS which of the two Danderyd gates this child stands in.
Time Norra Latin and Danderyd on the same dark Tuesday.
The city hub is the short map. The two portraits are the long ones.
Friendly orientation, not formal admissions advice. Always confirm dates with the school.
The official site is bisstockholm.se. It is not a Nord Anglia campus, and it is not Stockholm International School. Two sites north of the city, British-rooted, IB at the end, and a fee table that only holds if the child is registered with a kommun.
StockholmYou cannot treat SIS like a neighbourhood friskola. The admissions pages require an “international connection.” Fees are public. A municipal skolpeng may reduce what you pay — the school says that is usual, not guaranteed.
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