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Highest Quality Learning

Our personalized approach engages and challenges students, empowering them to reach their highest potential.
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We welcome you to join our vibrant, international community of learners.
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Exceptional Teachers

Our highly qualified, energetic and experienced staff is focused on developing children's unique learning styles.
Our Unique School Day

BISC-SL students love coming to school, the day is always inspiring.
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We welcome you to our BISC-SL community. From day one, you and your child will feel at home with us.
Go, Bulldogs!

Our varied athletics programming fosters sportsmanship, competition and discipline.
Join a Virtual Discovery Meeting

Nothing can replace a face-to-face visit and tour of our school – but with school closures and travel restrictions around the world, a Virtual Discovery meeting is the next best thing.

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Personalized education to students from age 3 - 18 under one roof. Our convenient access to family-friendly neighborhoods and renowned cultural landmarks is what sets us apart from other Chicago private schools.

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Empowering Global Citizenship
Kids around the world are coming together to help save children’s lives, fight for their rights, and help them fulfill their potential. Our students are working with UNICEF to help raise awareness around the rights of children and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Our M.I.T. Collaboration
We take an innovative hands-on, cross-functional approach to teaching science and technology. Our STEAM curriculum is an interdisciplinary program that allows your child to develop transferable skills needed for the 21st century.
Performing Arts with Juilliard
As part of our commitment to inspire your child, we have collaborated with one of the world's leading performing arts conservatory, The Juilliard School. Through this exclusive curriculum, we unlock your child's love for learning and give them transferable skills for future success.

Why choose our school?

We inspire your child to achieve more. Your child will learn with students around the world on our Global Campus, embrace music and dance in our collaboration with Juilliard, and turn ideas into reality through our innovative approach to the sciences with MIT.

School Highlights

Languages Taught

English
French
Spanish
German
Mandarin

Nationalities

40+

Nationalities

Languages of Instruction

English

Curriculum

International Primary Curriculum
English National Curriculum
IGCSE
International Baccalaureate

Maximum Students

1100

School Type

Day School

Age Range

3 - 18

Facilities Highlights

Two art studios
Soccer pitch
3 Music studios
Science Wing and Design & Engineering

Student to Teacher Ratio

9:1

Average Class Size

15

Our Family

Parents choose a Nord Anglia education because we offer academic, social and personal success for every student. Through opportunities to learn from the best, experiences beyond the ordinary, and the encouragement to achieve more than what they thought possible, we help our students succeed anywhere through our unique global educational offer. We do all this by investing in our people, our schools, and above all, our students.

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We encourage every child to reach for their dreams and be ambitious!

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Global campus at NAE

Global Campus prepares your child for a globalized world

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Juilliard-Nord Anglia partnership

Prepare your child for the world stage with Juilliard

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Our Family - MIT collaboration

Help your child invent the future with our MIT collaboration

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Saturday 12 June

Year 13 Graduation

Tuesday 15 June

Year 6 to 7 Induction event for new and existing families

Thursday 17 June

Years 9 to 10 Induction event for new and existing families

Friday 25 June

End of Summer Term

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View our events on our calendar page.

View our events on our calendar page.

13 January 2021

BISC-South Loop Middle School students win 12 awards at AMC8

On Thursday, November 12, Year 7, Year 8, and Year 9 students Britis...

22 December 2020

Virtual Games - 2020

The Virtual Games concluded this weekend with nail-biting FIFA 20, M...

14 December 2020

Student Sustainability Team Announces Meatless Mondays

Last year, the Student Sustainability Team made several incredibly s...

14 December 2020

The Nine Types of Intelligence That Should Be Considered in All School Curricular

Intelligence is often defined by performance in an examination or gr...

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British International School of Chicago, South Loop

161 W. 9th Street
Chicago, IL 60605

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