Guide · Curricula
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is no – but two schools cover most of what American families are looking for, and the listings that say otherwise are out of date.
Schools' own pages read 24 August to 23 September 2026
No school in this guide teaches a United States curriculum 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 the University of Nebraska curriculum in the final two years as an alternative to A Levels. Its homepage calls that an American High School Diploma while the page describing the programme does not – a difference worth asking the school about. Several directories still list an “Anglo-American High School” in Belgrade; we could find no evidence it is currently operating. The one school in Serbia teaching an American curriculum with Advanced Placement is in Novi Sad, an hour away – see schools outside Belgrade. Everything here comes from the schools' own pages and public registers, read on 24 August 2026.
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 international schools abroad – and has been since 1981. Its board includes members appointed by the US Ambassador. And it operates an admission priority order that places dependants of US Government-sponsored and contract employees first.
ISB's own curriculum pages do not mention 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 the University of Nebraska curriculum as an option in the final two years, alongside Cambridge A Levels. Its Upper Secondary page puts it plainly: "students not following the Cambridge programme would be entered for the University of Nebraska curriculum in Years 12 and 13", with subjects including American History, American Government, Career Planning and Personal Finance.
The school words this two ways, and the difference matters. Its homepage description calls the same thing an "American High School Diploma"; the page that actually describes the programme calls it the University of Nebraska curriculum. A curriculum and an awarded diploma are not the same claim, and which one it is decides whether a US university sees a transcript it recognises. We use the wording from the page that describes the programme. We have not yet asked the school which it means; when we do, its answer will appear here with the date we asked – and it is the first question to put to them if this route is why you are looking. No other school in this guide publishes a comparable route, and 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.
If you are being posted to Belgrade
ISB's published admission priority order places dependants of US Government-sponsored and contract employees first, ahead of other applicants, and its board includes members appointed by the US Ambassador. Both come from the school's own admissions handbook. If you are arriving on a posting, ask your agency what arrangement it has with the school rather than relying on a directory: figures in third-party fact sheets about Belgrade schools are often several years old.
Questions families ask
Is there an American curriculum school in Belgrade?
No. No school in this guide teaches an American curriculum as its main programme, and none publishes an Advanced Placement programme. The closest to one is the University of Nebraska curriculum the British International School offers in the final two years, alongside A Levels – a final-years route, not an American curriculum from the first year of school.
Is there an American school in Belgrade?
No school in this guide teaches a United States curriculum as its main programme, and we found no published Advanced Placement programme at any of them. 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 the University of Nebraska curriculum alongside A Levels in the final two years; its homepage describes that as an American High School Diploma, while the page setting out the programme does not use the phrase.
Does any Belgrade school offer AP courses?
Not that we could find. No school in this guide publishes an Advanced Placement programme on its own pages, and we have not yet asked any of them directly. 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 dependants 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.