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Ghana, Accra
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Lunch can be ordered from a catering provider (North Ridge Café); alternatively, students may bring a meal from home and have it warmed up by school staff.
GISA is jointly run by the parents, with a five-member board elected at regular intervals; the German Embassy in Accra is represented on the board. The school is supervised by the Central Agency for Schools Abroad (ZfA), the German Conference of Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs (KMK), and the Federal Office for Foreign Affairs. The Federal Republic of Germany provides financial and personal support to the school through an award contract and annual funding agreements.
German Swiss International School Accra offers a bilingual education that merges the Thuringian framework with Cambridge standards. The curriculum spans Cambridge Primary, Secondary, IGCSE and Cambridge A Levels, with a progression from Primary through Lower Secondary and a Cambridge checkpoint at key stages. English, Mathematics, Science and French as a Foreign Language are core subjects, with the Cambridge pathway supported by a bilingual Building Bridges approach. The school serves ages 1 to 14 and emphasizes multilingualism, practical learning and a structured path to upper secondary qualifications. Founded in 1966 as RMS Swiss School, it became a German school and earned the Excellent German School Abroad seal in 2016; the streams were unified under Building Bridges in 2023/24. The campus is space meeting German standards, with specialist rooms, a science lab, a library and spaces for English and computing. Extracurriculars include Gerald Asamoah Football Academy, arts, music, dance, languages and sustainability initiatives.
