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Ghana, Accra
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West Africa's only officially recognized German school abroad.
Supervised by the Central Agency for German Schools Abroad (ZfA), the German Conference of Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs (KMK), and the Federal Office for Foreign Affairs.
The German Embassy in Accra is represented on the board.
Financial support from the Federal Republic of Germany (award contract and annual funding).
The Thuringian educational framework forms the basis of education and the British Cambridge curriculum standards are considered.
Partnerships with ZfA and Cambridge International Education are shown on the school's partner logos.
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.
