About British International School Riyadh (BISR)
The British International School Riyadh is at the heart of the British Community in Riyadh, providing education to some 1500 boys and girls.
We have 55 nationalities in the school and prepare our students for life in a complex and interdependent world.
BISR is an extremely well-regarded not-for-profit, five-campus, co-educational school in the Middle East, catering for students aged 3-18, providing high quality education to the expatriate community since 1979. We, the students, parents, teachers and community of BISR, provide a caring, safe and stimulating environment where we strive to make every student feel valued, happy and successful.
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English
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English
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4 to 18
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Genuinely one of the WORST schools i’ve ever been to. HORRIBLE treatment of students coming from grown adults who are hypocritical, abusive, racist, elitist and the most deceiving and manipulative people you’ll ever meet. The tours and website visits you see won’t tell you the reality of the mistreatment. The head staff are all interconnected cult of psychos who steal you for your money and manipulate your children. My child has been harassed verbally and countless of times has the head staff touched her and absolutely go off limits of boundaries that made her extremely uncomfortable. In reality, no student likes the school itself. So before you enrol your children here, think about what trap you are setting them up for, from verbal abuse and harassment (COMING FROM TEACHERS NOT STUDENTS). If i could give this a negative star i would.
It is a school that lacks supervision where bullying takes place and the school tries to cover it up and under play it, the school also does not apply the same standard of consequences for all students so there is no fairness nor equality between the students and the kids can see that for themselves...which is bad.
I wish that we had never applied here. The communication is nonexistent. They insist on only communicating through school email addresses but send non-working passwords that can only be reset by using a PIN sent to… the email address that you can’t access. And there is no one to contact about any of this. Or rather, there likely is a contact, but they never disclose who this person would be or how to reach them. No one in the administration seems to care at all about the students or parents. Our entire experience has been an exercise in frustration.
The receptionist and admissions officer could not have made me feel less welcome. I understand the school has a very good educational reputation but my decision to move my family to Riyadh was reversed upon dealing with these people. My company advised that this school prioritises British Citizens but the admissions officer said not necessarily and offered little to make me feel my children would be accepted and welcomed in the school.
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Abbie Senn, 2 months ago
The school is really good. The teachers are really friendly and very fun. Lovely classes and a great experience for me. Excited to come back and see my friends.
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Abbie Senn, 2 months ago
The school is really good. The teachers are really friendly and very fun. Lovely classes and a great experience for me. Excited to come back and see my friends.
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Alex, 4 months ago
From years R-8, this school is fine. But after that, it's time to take your qualifications seriously and move your final years of education elsewhere. In the nine years that I was here, the education superseded the schools in England. Some teachers lack interpersonal skills and act like machines. I still remember all of their names and the dumb things they did, like give me a detention for mistakes they've made but were unwilling to admit it. However, returning to England made me realise how much worse it is there. I was in all the middle sets at BISR, but when I returned home I was suddenly the smartest kid in the year. This school takes bullying a lot more seriously than other schools, except when the teachers do it themselves. From my experience, they handled bullying. But false accusations are also taken seriously, some students in my time picked up on it and would do this to others. There's also students and teachers who shouldn't be here; a handful of lowlives from around the world attend this school; British, Arabic, Australian, whatever. You're forced to take part in sports days and swimming galas. Waste of a school day, why shouldn't I be absent from these? I'd have been more productive staying at home.
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Steve Milicent, 6 months ago
My son got beaten up on the third day of school by a few bullies, he says he didn’t do anything to them. He also complained about the teachers being late and sometimes not even attending lessons. When I tried addressing the issues with the principal, he kept on making excuses like I am not available because of this or that etc. As soon as the first semester ended, I moved him to AIS-R. My son says he is much more happy there.
