BHS

Now a school for students ages 3 to 18, Barcelona High School (BHS) was founded in 2020 during Covid by American entrepreneur and Harvard graduate Akida Mashaka who wanted a better education model for his teenage son.  BHS initially started only as an American curriculum high school, hence its name, and then added a middle school in 2023.  Now in 2025, BHS has created a new trilingual preschool and elementary school (40% English, 40% Spanish and 20% Catalan) to best serve as the global school for the international community in Barcelona.

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BHS is a one-of-a-kind international American School in Barcelona Spain with a mission to solve the failures of traditional education, so all students in the post-Covid era not only excel academically to attend the world's top universities if desired, but also excel socially and psychologically as well in equal measure, in order for students to truly find their superpower.

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BHS uses its own teaching methodology known as the BHS Method™, which asserts that students learn better by doing versus long lectures and memorization as the best way to obtain the skills they will need for the world they will be in. 

In the BHS Method, BHS stands for "Build. Harvest. Succeed.", a revolutionary educational model to provide the most engaging school experience based on empowering curiosity and hands on problem solving through fearless trial and error and continual iteration to achieve executive functioning excellence, instead of the outdated traditional rote memorization methodology developed in the industrial age over 200 years ago that fails to prepare students for the world that exists today. 

In short, BHS is about empowering and inspiring students, instead of controlling them like in traditional education.