Admission Year 1/Grade 5

Every year, the student admissions team interviews roughly 200 students from primary schools throughout Graz and beyond. Taking into account the current Covid-19 measures in place for schools, feasibility, but primarily the safety and well-being of staff and prospective students, student admission interviews are suspended for this school year.

There will be three Year 1 classes with 25 students each. For incoming Year 1 students the admission procedure (school year 2022/ 2023) will be as follows:

There will still be an early admissions policy, accepting online applications from December 9, 2021 to January 14, 2022 (s. application form below).

Required documents

You need to upload a copy/scan of the report cards (Schulnachricht and Jahreszeugnis) for the school year 2020/21. In case your child has not attended a primary/elementary school in Austria, please upload the last 2 report cards.
IMPORTANT: Please stick to the following file name scheme, SURNAME-FIRSTNAME-REPORTCARD.
The following file formats are accepted: PDF, JPG.

• We will continue to give priority to English-speaking students who fulfil the standard requirements for attending GIBS (s. section below). Oral English language skills will be verified with interviews on the 27^th of January 2022 in the afternoon between the English admission team and the students. (Online interviews for those students not residing in Austria.)
• Primary school grades will be taken into consideration.
• Priority will be given to those applicants who have siblings currently attending GIBS and fulfil the standard GIBS requirements.

In the event that the number of applicants who fulfil all of the requirements still exceeds the number of spots available, there will be a modified version of the interviews on the 5^th of February 2022.  

Parents will receive written confirmation of acceptance or non-acceptance by February 28, 2022.