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About Us
Does your child feel supported and safe at school?
For ages 3 to 18, BHS is an international American school in Barcelona, Spain that is supportive, flexible, and non-judgmental, with a safe and inspiring environment.
Do you want a school community that feels like a family?
BHS is where students love school and parents make friends for life as BHS feels more like a family than a school.
Are you frustrated with traditional education?
While BHS has a flexible and individual student focus, today's schools are still using the same traditional education methods today that were designed over 200 years ago in the industrial age, specifically, to control people to blindly follow orders to be cogs in a machine.
Does your child have great student-teacher connections?
At BHS, student learning does NOT come from having power over students but rather from EMPOWERING students. Through our proprietary BHS Method™, known as "Build. Harvest. Succeed.", students learn the executive functioning skills necessary to take action, be creative, and think outside the box.
Does your child love their school experience?
BHS is a one-of-a-kind school created to solve the problems of traditional education. BHS does this by ensuring that students excel socially, emotionally, and academically in equal measure. BHS calls this balanced approach to education, the Social Wellness School™ model.
Are extracurricular activities important to you?
BHS has extracurricular and after-school clubs and programs for every student interest, including an extensive arts program that includes music, visual arts, film, and theater. BHS has sports facilities at each campus for physical education and non-competitive sports.
Are competitive sports teams and school spirit important to you?
After starting our competitive sports team program only two years ago, BHS are the "2026 City Champions" in both Girls Football and Boys Basketball. This would not be possible without our supportive student body and family fanbase. For Girls we offer Football and Volleyball. For Boys we offer Basketball and Football.
Why is BHS the fastest growing American school in Spain?
Unlike traditional legacy schools that safely focus on doing things like they've always been done, BHS embraces a radical approach to education that actually welcomes feedback and collaboration. Moreover, BHS expands through a small scale approach where enrollment increases only to optimize social friendships and engagement, however, maintaining small class sizes and a low teacher student ratio for personalized and individualized attention.
Why is BHS not for you?
BHS is not for you if you prefer traditional education, strict rules, and curriculum that only "teaches to the test" like the "one-size-fits-all" International Baccalaureate (IB) system.
Also, BHS is not for you if you prefer super alternative schools that don't value high academic standards.
Why is BHS perfect for you?
BHS is the perfect school for you if you want a flexible school, with small class sizes, supportive teachers who inspire students to be problem solvers and in charge of their own destiny through academic curiosity, human social engagement, and psychological wellness, all in a safe and inclusive family-like community.