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GIST began with just 10 students and has grown into an IB World School. It moved from Cranbrooke Avenue to a downtown location at Bloor and Dufferin Street after an extensive search, and later relocated to its current site at 25 Burnhamthorpe Rd, Toronto.
GIST is a private school in Toronto and a proud partner of an extensive global network of over 135 German Schools Abroad and eight German Schools in North America. The Central Office for Schools Abroad (ZfA) supports all German Schools Abroad. The schools welcome students of all nationalities, and graduates from German Schools Abroad are part of a community that reaches far beyond one's own school. A community of global citizens.
A strong partnership: Our Parent Council. The Parent Council is formed when two parent representatives from each grade are elected at the start of the school year. The Council meets monthly and publishes minutes for reference. It hosts events such as Flea Markets and Parents' nights out to Ripley's Aquarium and Second City. In past years, it organized initiatives such as a warm school lunch, a mud kitchen, and book and bake sales. The Council remains open to new ideas and feedback.
German International School Toronto (GIST) is an international school for ages 3 to 17 that delivers a trilingual program in German, English and French. The curriculum blends the Thuringian German curriculum with the Ontario Canadian curriculum and offers the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme for upper grades. Primary instruction is mainly German, with English increasing to about a 50/50 split from Grade 5, and French beginning in kindergarten and becoming integral from Grade 3. Students can follow a bilingual English/French or English/German Diploma track as part of the high school IB programme, preparing for global university access. GIST has a Germany–Canada affiliation and has earned the STEAM_MINT profile and a Seal of Excellence from the Federal President of Germany for its science-authored program. A Three Step German Program (GermanFasttrack, GermanPlus, GermanPro) supports language development, with free language support in German, English and French. The 25 Burnhamthorpe Rd campus provides PreK–Grade 12 education with a strong emphasis on multilingualism, science education and community engagement.
