International Schools

Overseas Family School (OFS), a privately owned Pre K-12 International school, provides a modern education in the English language for overseas families living in Singapore. It started in 1991 with 200 students. Today, Overseas Family School has over 3000 students from 60 different nationalities. OFS is the first, and one of at least two schools in Singapore, that is fully authorised by International Baccalaureate Organisation (IBO) to offer a full International Baccalaureate education from age three to senior high school (Pre K-12). OFS offers a Study Preparation Program (SPP) for students for whom English is a second or other language (ESOL). It helps students to quickly learn to read, write, listen to and speak English while also doing their usual school subjects. About 300 students are currently in SPP classes. OFS faculty is a professional team of highly qualified and experienced international teachers. Students study languages chosen from French, German, Japanese, Mandarin, Spanish or English. The teaching policies of the School emphasize individual needs of students. Educational growth occurs in a supportive atmosphere where student work cooperatively to achieve heir school goals. Students make friendships and develop global attitudes in a school with no dominant nationality, no minorities and without any one national identity. OFS is accredited K-12 by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, California, USA (WASC), authorised by IGCSE Cambridge as an Examination Centre and registered by the Ministry of Education (MOE), Singapore.