International schools in Lebanon

Search for the best international schools in Lebanon; you can find a list of selected schools at the bottom of this page. Use the search filters to select only girls' or boys' schools, prep schools, senior schools or sixth forms; or you can search for schools that offer a particular curriculum, such as the International Baccalaureate, the UK national curriculum, a US-style model or the International Primary Curriculum.

Schools offering the curriculums of France, Britain, the United States and the International Baccalaureate organisation predominate in Lebanon’s large and vibrant international education sector. 

Bilingual schools, religious foundations, and home-grown education groups also play a prominent role in the market, with all private schools required to offer the Lebanese Baccalaureate alongside international qualifications.   

More than 20 French-medium schools follow the national curriculum of France, including the oldest French school in the Middle East, College St Joseph, which dates back to 1834 and boasts a 98 per cent pass rate in both the French and Lebanese Baccalaureate exams. 

Lebanon has 27 IB World Schools, of which 24 schools offer the IB Diploma. Three of these schools, Wellspring Learning Community, Al-Hayat International School and Eastwood International School, follow all three stages of the IB curriculum.

The International School of Choueifat, which was founded in 1886, is mother school to the SABIS group, which operates non-selective international schools across the Middle East, Europe and North America, including three others in Lebanon. Four Learner’s World International Schools in the country are run by a Lebanese company.

Girls’ boarding school Greenfield College offers French, American and Lebanese matriculation exams as well as the IB Diploma. Accrediting bodies active in Lebanon include the Council of International Schools and the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.  

Education is compulsory from age six to 14, but UNESCO does not hold school enrolment statistics for Lebanon. Challenges that face the public school system include accommodating nearly 522,000 Syrian refugee children in the country, 30 per cent of whom have never been to school. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees provides a range of support programmes for such out-of-school children. The United Nations Relief and Works Association runs 65 schools for 39,144 Palestinian refugee children, who are not entitled to attend public schools in Lebanon.