About BHS

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Why is BHS unlike the other American schools in Barcelona?

First of all, BHS is new, becoming an official school in Spain in 2024, and was founded on first principles of what makes the best school to prepare students for the modern world of today, instead of the traditional world of the past.  Therefore, BHS is not constrained by traditional curriculum and conventional school protocols designed for students in the industrial age over 200 years ago. 

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BHS believes that the social and emotional wellbeing of students is just as important as academics.  BHS embraces the academic and neuro diversity of students through learning support to help them discover what is unique about them to find their superpower. 

 

Consequently, BHS has the best teachers which is the core to the culture and school experience that inspires students to be leaders in the future instead of followers.

 

Moreover, BHS believes if you want a hard life then do easy things but if you truly want an easy life you must do hard things. 

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Accordingly, for the elementary school, rather than just teaching in English like the other American schools, the elementary school at BHS is a trilingual language program that allows both native and non-native English speakers to embrace the languages of English, Spanish and Catalan to comfortably become a part of the diverse Barcelona community.

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The middle school has a unique and modern STEAM program designed for kids of varying backgrounds, with a wide range of interests, to see STEAM as being “for them”, and instill in them the confidence that excelling in STEAM subjects, or even forging a viable career in the field, are not  unrealistic aspirations. 

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BHS is also the only secondary American school in Barcelona that admits students with a beginner level of English and has even created a one-of-a-kind English Language Learner (ELL) program to ensure that these students are fully integrated in the school and graduate with a high level of English. 

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Furthermore, the high school at BHS has taken the more difficult path to obtain official school accreditation in Spain without offering the International Baccalaureate (IB) program which may be easier for Spanish education bureaucracy, but is a traditional "one-size-fits-all" pre-university curriculum, unlike the flexible Advanced Placement (AP) and US curriculum, that is contrary to the core values of BHS.

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Lastly, the tuition prices never go up for students once they enter the school.  Therefore, students from as young as 3 years old will have the same tuition amount, without any increases, for all their years at BHS.

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For all these reasons, BHS is the fastest growing American school in Barcelona.