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Ghana, Accra
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Founded in 1966 as RMS Swiss School in Accra by the Swiss community and named after Swiss missionary Friedrich August Ramseyer. It began with 23 students and two teachers and soon added a secondary level, with a kindergarten and an attached hostel to support students from remote areas. For many years it was the only Swiss school in Africa. In 2012 it relinquished recognition as a Swiss international school and became a German international school with a bilingual curriculum based on the Thuringian Education Plan, later adopting the current name German International School Accra (Deutsche Internationale Schule Accra). In 2016 it earned the Excellent German School Abroad seal, and from 2020/21 the two streams were merged into a unified bilingual concept under the Building Bridges guiding principle introduced in 2023/24.
The school has an active community with student involvement and an ongoing events calendar. The SMV elects a new student council at the start of each school year, with liaison teachers guiding the council to enrich school life and advocate for students, including involvement in selecting a catering provider and adopting the year's motto Building Bridges. The events calendar includes the GISA Cup – Kids Edition, Ghana Day – Celebrating Three Nations Together, and activities such as the Marina Water Park outing for the GISA Teen Club, along with the School Musical. GISA Teen Club and other extracurricular activities provide additional opportunities for student engagement beyond classes.
Two parent representatives are elected at the start of each school year in the individual classes and groups during a parents' evening. They represent the interests of their class and the parent body, collating suggestions and proposals from parents and passing them on to the school management; conversely, they relay important information from the school to the parents. The contact addresses of the parent representatives can be obtained from the school office. The School Board is democratically elected from among the parents and represents the parent body as the school authority, planning long-term school development and the annual budget in coordination with the headmaster, with voluntary membership. A new Board was elected on September 30, 2025, including Beatrice Thiel, Araba Adjei, Gunnar Wegner, Abigail Afari Adane and Robert Lüdtke.
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.
