It is our pleasure to inform you that ISD is now authorized to offer the Middle Years Programme of the International Baccalaureate and has become Hungary’s first IB Continuum school.
ISD opened its doors to students four years ago in the heart of the Great Forest. Over the past four years the foundations have been laid of an innovative international education system in Debrecen.
Students at ISD now have the opportunity to experience an IB education at all grade levels and can graduate with the coveted IB Diploma.
ISD attained Primary Years Programme authorization in May, 2022, Diploma Programme in April 2023, and the Middle Years Programme this June. In addition, ISD is on track to be authorized by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) in Spring 2025. Thus our first graduating class will also graduate with a United States high school diploma. On the back of our accreditation success ISD is currently experiencing an explosion in student numbers and a rapidly internationalizing community with approximately 50% of our students coming from nations other than Hungary.
To gain IB authorisation schools must demonstrate that they meet rigorous standards and practices. They must have a clear mission, values, and strategy; outstanding physical, digital, and human resources; a robust policy framework; and a curriculum grounded in best practices in approaches to teaching, learning and assessment. As an IB Continuum school, ISD can attract top quality teachers from all over the world and guarantee the highest quality of international education.
At ISD we are very proud of how far we have come in such a short space of time but we are also humbly aware of how much work we still have to do. Learning is a lifelong process and our new challenge is to guide our first IB Diploma cohort to success while successfully integrating large numbers of students from all over the world. Fortunately, we have an outstanding and dedicated team of international and Hungarian teachers, with an additional 20 international and 10 Hungarian teachers joining in the 2023-24 academic year!
