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Ethiopia, Addis Ababa
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Sandford International School is located on Shewareged Gedle Street, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It markets itself as providing quality international education in Addis Ababa. The school serves three levels: Early Years (ages 3-5), Primary (ages 5-11), and Secondary (ages 11-18).
EYFS Ages 3-5; Primary School Ages 5-11; Secondary School Ages 11-18.
The school is an international school.
Application fees
- No specific, school-published application or one‑time enrollment fee amount is publicly available for Sandford International School. Searches of the school's School Fees page and admissions information do not list a published application fee.
Tuition fees by school year (per term / per year)
- Sandford does not publish a detailed, grade-by-grade fee schedule for the 2026/27 or 2025/26 academic years. There is no publicly available breakdown showing exact fees per term for individual year groups.
- Independent and international school databases provide estimated annual day‑tuition ranges for Sandford for recent years: US$3,150 to US$10,000 per year (reported in one international school directory) and, in local currency estimates for 2025/26, approximately 2,609,354 ETB to 4,981,371 ETB per year in other aggregated listings. These figures are presented as external estimates rather than a published school fee schedule. Sandford is listed as a day school (non‑boarding).
Billing schedule and payment terms
- The school operates on a three‑term academic calendar (Term 1, Term 2, Term 3) for the 2025/26 academic year with the term dates published by the school. It is common for international schools in the region to align billing with the academic terms, but Sandford has not published an explicit public billing timetable (e.g., whether invoices are issued termly, monthly or annually) or the precise payment deadlines for each term. The school's term dates are: Term 1 (27 August 2025 – 19 December 2025), Term 2 (12 January 2026 – 17 April 2026), Term 3 (4 May 2026 – 26 June 2026).
- There has been public reporting that Sandford's management previously quoted fees in US dollars and allowed nationals to pay in Ethiopian Birr at the prevailing exchange rate, and that this practice was subject to regulatory scrutiny and parent complaints; this history may affect currency and billing arrangements for families. No single, current public statement listing accepted currencies and exact payment deadlines was found.
Boarding fees
- Sandford is identified as a day school and is reported as non‑boarding; therefore there are no published boarding fees for the school.
Other costs and likely additional charges
- No detailed, school‑published schedule for additional costs (uniforms, transport, exam fees, activity fees, school lunch, school supplies or capital levies) was located. External guides for international schools in Addis Ababa note that families commonly pay additional charges for uniforms, textbooks, transport, external exam fees and occasional capital or registration levies, but Sandford's specific amounts for these items are not publicly listed.
Refund information
- There is no publicly available, school‑published refund policy or fee‑refund schedule located in the materials reviewed. No precise statement was found that sets out conditions for refunds of tuition, deposits, or registration fees.
Fee payment options (methods)
- A definitive, published list of accepted payment methods (for example, bank transfer, credit/debit card, cash, mobile money) was not found. Historical reporting about Sandford's billing practice refers to invoicing in foreign currency (US dollars) with local Birr payment options at exchange rates, but specific modern payment methods accepted by the school are not published in the publicly available materials reviewed.
Summary of findings and limits of available information
- Sandford International School's public pages do not contain a complete, grade‑by‑grade fee schedule, per‑term amounts, or a detailed published refunds and payment‑methods policy for the 2026/27 or 2025/26 academic year; a dedicated School Fees page is present but marked under construction. Published third‑party directories and news reports provide estimated annual ranges and background context (including a currency/billing dispute and tax/regulatory attention), but those external figures are not a formal school fee schedule. The most load‑bearing public references consulted include the school's own pages (term dates and school fee placeholder), international school directories that provide estimated annual fee ranges, and recent news coverage about the school's fee and currency practices.
Sandford International School is an Ethiopian international school serving ages 3 to 18. It offers the British Curriculum, IPC, Cambridge IGCSE, and the IB Diploma Programme. The Primary Curriculum uses English as the language of instruction, with Amharic and French classes, while secondary students study Cambridge IGCSE in Years 10–11 and the IB Diploma in Years 12–13. The school traces its origins to the 1940s, founded to provide an English-speaking option for local and expatriate families; it re-registered in 2001 and began offering the IGCSE Cambridge examinations and the IB for Years 11 and 13. The campus features modern classrooms, a well-stocked library, and facilities designed to support outdoor learning and creativity. Extracurricular activities include Model UN, Taekwondo, culinary and business clubs, and arts and sports programs. Pastoral care, mentoring, and PSHE support wellbeing and development, while language and cultural activities foster citizenship within a co-educational, non-boarding environment.
