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Is there an American school in Belgrade?
The short answer is no — but two schools cover most of what American families are looking for, and the listings that say otherwise are out of date.
Updated August 2026 · schools' own pages read 24 August 2026
There is no school in Belgrade teaching a United States curriculum. No school here offers Advanced Placement or a standalone American high school diploma as its main programme. The closest thing, and what American families in Belgrade generally choose, is the International School of Belgrade — which teaches the International Baccalaureate, is accredited by NEASC, a United States regional accrediting body, and has a board partly appointed by the US Ambassador. The British International School separately offers an American high school diploma alongside A Levels in the final two years. Several directories still list an “Anglo-American High School” in Belgrade; we could find no evidence it is currently operating.
What American families actually choose
The International School of Belgrade
ISB has been in Belgrade since 1948 and is the de facto American option. It teaches the full International Baccalaureate continuum rather than a US curriculum, but three things make it the natural choice for American families. It is accredited by NEASC — the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, a US non-governmental accreditor that covers schools in New England and around 500 international schools in more than 90 countries, and which ISB says it was the first international school in the world to receive, in 1981. Its board includes members appointed by the US Ambassador. And it operates an admission priority order that places dependents of US Government-sponsored and contract employees first.
It does not offer Advanced Placement. If AP specifically matters for your child's university plans, that is worth raising early — the IB Diploma is well understood by US admissions offices, but it is a different qualification with a different shape.
The British International School
BIS offers an American high school diploma as an option in the final two years, alongside Cambridge A Levels. It is the only school in Belgrade to offer that dual pathway. The main curriculum through the school is British and Cambridge, so this is a route at the end rather than an American education throughout.
About the Anglo-American School listings
Several school directories still carry listings for an "Anglo-American School" or "Anglo-American International School" in Belgrade. Two things are worth saying about them.
First, it is not a former name of the International School of Belgrade, which is the natural assumption. ISB's own history says it was founded in 1948 as the Foreign School and renamed the International School of Belgrade in 1952. The Anglo-American listings give different addresses from any ISB campus and describe a Cambridge, IGCSE and A Level curriculum — ISB is an IB school.
Second, it does appear to have been a real, separate school: there are traces of a Serbian company registration and a Senjak address, suggesting an institution operating around the early 2010s. We could find no current website, and it does not appear in any curated directory of Belgrade schools. To be clear about the limits of that: we have searched, we have not tried to contact anyone, and we have confirmed nothing either way. If you know more, please tell us and we will say so here.
The same applies to "Britannica International School Belgrade", which also appears on those directories. The Britannica schools are in Budapest and Shanghai; their operator lists no school in Serbia, and the Belgrade address given in the listings is a diplomatic residence. The genuine British-branded school here is the British International School.
What about the US Embassy?
ISB is a US State Department–assisted school and appears in the department's school fact sheets, alongside a published special needs profile. Those are worth reading if you are being posted to Belgrade. Check any figures in them against the school directly: a fact sheet published under a current-year title has in the past carried enrolment and fee data several years old.
Questions families ask
Is there an American school in Belgrade?
No school in Belgrade teaches a United States curriculum as its main programme, and none offers Advanced Placement. The International School of Belgrade is the de facto American option: it teaches the IB, is accredited by NEASC, a US regional accrediting body, and its board is partly appointed by the US Ambassador. The British International School offers an American high school diploma alongside A Levels in the final two years.
Does any Belgrade school offer AP courses?
Not that we could find. No Belgrade international school publishes an Advanced Placement programme. Families for whom AP matters should raise it at interview and ask specifically what the school does offer for US university applications.
Is the International School of Belgrade an American school?
Not in curriculum — it teaches the International Baccalaureate, not a US curriculum. But it is American in governance and accreditation: accredited by NEASC since 1981, board members appointed by the US Ambassador, and an admissions priority order that places dependents of US Government-sponsored employees first. For most American families in Belgrade it is the school they choose.
Does the Anglo-American School in Belgrade still exist?
We could not establish that it does. Several directories still list it, but we found no current website and no recent evidence of operation. We have searched rather than made enquiries, so nothing here is confirmed either way. It is not a former name of the International School of Belgrade — ISB was founded as the Foreign School in 1948 and renamed in 1952, and the Anglo-American listings give different addresses and a different curriculum. If you know more, please tell us.