BHS

For students ages 3 to 18, 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 or create their own startup if desired, but also to excel socially and psychologically as well in equal measure, in order to truly find their superpower.

Barcelona High School (BHS) was founded in 2020 by American entrepreneur, Harvard graduate and Barcelona resident, Akida Mashaka, who wanted a better education model for his teenage son after Covid.  BHS initially started as only an American "high school", hence its name, and then added a STEAM based "middle school" in 2023.  Now in 2025, BHS has created a new trilingual "elementary school" and Montessori "preschool" to serve as the  #1 international school in Barcelona for the global community.

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BHS uses its own unique pedagogy 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 approach that provides 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through fearless trial and error and continual iteration to achieve executive functioning excellence, instead of the outdated traditional rote memorization methodology developed in the industrial age over 200 years ago that fails to prepare students for the world that exists today.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.