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Excellent school with great teaching staff. Our family was very satisfied with the quality of education and personable approach in this school. The language progress was great and our daughter was always happy to go to school. They do a lot of great activities and projects, go for walks and play time in nearby parks, go on field trips and organise different events for kids and families. They also offer good extra curricular activities. We always received information on school activities and information on what kids have been doing every week so felt well informed. Over all we were very satisfied with this school. We have now moved to another country and our daughter goes to another Deutsche Schule here and she is at the same level if not ahead of other kids in her new pre school group.

Great school for kids, would recommend to everyone. Nice and safe environments. Professional and friendly teachers. My daughter is very comfortable in school. Definitely the best one in Riga.

I hope the school is good, because when speaking to them on the phone response is standard unkind.

My two children have been going to school and kindergarten for three years. The most important thing for us is that children feel comfortable, they have a lot of friends. We see good progress in languages, while learning is not stressful, they have a lot of entertainment and interesting activities. Special thanks to the administration for understanding and attentive attitude to the problems that arise.

The "German School Riga" has become a multilingual education institution since 2015. The school teaches German, English, Latvian, Russian and offers trilingual curricula. This institution is a must for expats' schooling needs. The school offers private home schooling solutions, too (German teachers). We are very happy to have them in our hood in Centrs and greatful for the principal's committed help. Unfortunately, Riga's German school and kindergarden has been affected by the COVID-19 state of emergency lock down in March/April 2020 as well, but the school's office is available on a daily basis for all kind of information enquiries

My daughter is studying in this school. Very satisfied about education and tolerant attitude.

- Small and unspacious premises (some groups are outside - kids need to wear clothes to go to extracurruculum activities), also non-appropriate (for the standard International school) playground;
- Very unprofessional in field of Psychology (making non-professional kids assessments - done by uncertified Psychologist, cannot show to Parents any of professionally documented reports);
- Safety accidents and non-human reaction to kids injuries from administration of the school ("Our external school doctor whom we consulted was “surprised” that this accident, according to the information provided by the parents, resulted in a broken chest bone".)
- Questionable staff professionalism - at 16-18:00 unskilled personnel without the professional teachers qualifications are spending time with kids - and writing behavioral protocols (as a basis of "filtering out" in future);
- Filtering out uncovenient Families and kids (based on the behaviour Protocols and temper - more active kids have bigger chance to be "filtered" out, same as "Spanish" Families - not taken in);
- Unflexible and unprofessional, unkind (even non-ethical beyong borders) Communication - not on the level of XXI century;
- Military, army-based approach - where the obedience is the most important quality for growing child;
- Big problems with Equality, Diversity and Inclusion;
- I believe this is a good school for developing rule-takers, box-thinkers, non self-determined persons and personalities without any kind of leadership, flexibility, creativity and initiative!
- If you want a real focus in your child development into international environment - better try some proven schools with history and International Educational standards. (Our second kids is finishing the International School of Latvia - there you will find everything, expected from the real International school - premises, communication, safety, attention, quality and the community. As our two kids were in two different international schools - and these are two completely different experiencies - we are saying for sure don't waste your time at Deutsche Schule Riga - as you will still move to proven Educational system, not experimenting with your wonderful, unique, growing child!

This is the 6th year our children go to German School of Riga and year after year it only becomes better. The premises are big enough for a number of children they house and absolutely appropriate from any point of view. The outside premises (new and very spacious) are now used by the toddlers group not involved yet in any kind of extracurricular activity. There are three playgrounds for different age groups, and in good weather the children have the possibility to go to play in Kronvalda parks which is just 5 min walk from the school.

We've got great help from the School psychologist whom we addressed several times with various problems. Not to speak about the school stuff - native speakers, professional teachers, carefully chosen and absolutely loved by children. As for the language skills - children start to speak German fluently already in kindergarten, and at the end of School they are supposed to speak at least 4 languages and obtain the German school-leaving certificate.

For those who have any kind of problem with the comprehension of German (for the new kids who just arrived to School) there are additional hours of teaching German with personal approach, as well as special summer course for beginners. They also have two levels language course for parents.

All of my children are involved in extracurricular activities, and they are also on the highest level. The school has it's own ballet studio with a professional ballet teacher who organizes not only in-house ballet classes for all the age groups, but also makes the children perform in various concerts. In school children can also take piano, violin, guitar lessons with the professional teachers. There is also a football team who starts to show good results on international school competitions, as well as other sport groups.

The school organizes nice excursions and field trip several times a year, every time different! Children get so happy and excited! They make in time to do all their homework at school. Evening personnel if they don't speak German also study it. Schoolchildren are supervised up to 18.30 which is also a great help for parents. The kids are safe, happy, have good results in all subjects. The School is in the very center of Riga, for us it is also important.

Of course, when children play outside, everything can happen. And of course, the parents get so upset when the child gets hurt that the things look in a very bad way for them. But I see that the school stuff and management does really a lot to assure safe and amicable environment for our kids. And we wish them a lot of patience and strength to keep the School's level as high as it is, and to become even better.