Admissions
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Our admissions process continues via online platforms. The admissions team is available on all working days. Please use the admissions.secondary@isalmere.nl email address to make contact with the school.
The International School Almere is a fully authorised IB world school, providing quality international education, in English, for students from 11 to 18 years of age. The school welcomes applications from students regardless of gender, ethnicity or religion.
The decision to admit or not admit a student to the International School Almere is based on the availability of space at the appropriate year level, the school’s ability to meet each student’s needs and the student’s ability to fulfil the programme requirements.
Specific entry requirements
A student can only be admitted to a Dutch International School if he/she/they complies with at least one of the following three conditions:
1. The student has a non-Dutch nationality (or: also a non-Dutch nationality) and has a parent that is working in The Netherlands (or in a Dutch border region) for a limited time.
2. The student has Dutch nationality and has lived and gone to school abroad for at least two years because a parent was stationed abroad.
3. The student has Dutch nationality and has a parent (with whom the student will be living) that will be stationed abroad within two years and for at least two years. This is to be proven by a written statement of the parent’s employer.
Entry to DP Programme (last two years)
A student can be admitted to the DP Programme (last two years) of Dutch International Secondary Schools if:
1. He or she has a havo-diploma or a certificate of promotion to year 5 in a vwo school, and;
2. He or she can prove that he/she is sufficiently fluent in English, at the discretion of the international school.
See table below for comparison of different curricula:
| Average student age | US curriculum | UK curriculum | NL curriculum | IB curriculum |
| 11-12 | 6th Grade | Year 7 (KS 3) | Group 8 | MYP 1 |
| 12-13 | 7th Grade | Year 8 (KS 3) | VWO 1 | MYP 2 |
| 13-14 | 8th Grade | Year 9 (KS 3) | VWO 2 | MYP 3 |
| 14-15 | 9th Grade | Year 10 (KS 4) | VWO 3 | MYP 4 |
| 15-16 | 10th Grade | Year 11 (KS 4) | VWO 4 | MYP5 |
| 16-17 | 11th Grade | Year 12 (KS 5) | VWO 5 | DP 1 |
| 17-18 | 12th Grade | Year 13 (KS 5) | VWO 6 | DP 2 |
For more information about entry requirements, please visit the website of Dutch International Schools (DIS).
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