KOPchick

Hi everyone...I am desperate to find out about British Schools in the USA.
I am looking for Schools that offer As levels so my daughter can continue and finish her education before University.

JAJ

Where do you intend to live in the U.S. and for how long?

On what visa?

And how old is your daughter?

KOPchick

We are going to King of Prussia....hence the KOP of my username! It will be for 18 months prob rising to 3 years + My daughter is 17, doing A levels in UK, and wants to complete the second year of them.

Cannot find much info at all and am really concerned.

KOPchick

Sorry. Hubby is on a L1-B visa...I will be L2, daughter is still a dependent.

Englishmum

Sorry but it seems that you're out of luck. The nearest British school to KOP is in Washington DC. Most British schools overseas now tend to offer the International Baccaulareate instead of 'A' Levels as it is easier to transfer to universities in a variety of countries, whereas the UK "A" Levels are not so widely recognised.

These are the British schools in the US....actually there was one in NYC which is no longer listed, perhaps it has closed down?

http://www.britishschool.org/site/epage/31211_565.htm

In all honesty, it may be best for your daughter to stay on in the UK to continue with her current course and reside either with a relative or friend, unless her school offers boarding facilities. When my husband was in the Sixth form at his grammar school in Bristol, his parents moved up to Wilmslow in Cheshire. He and his twin brother moved into his best friends house for 18 months to complete "A" levels.

We moved to the States when our daughter was 16 and had just taken her IGCSE's. She knew that she didn't want to transfer to an American school curriculum (she knew American kids of her age at Singapore American School) and decided that it was too different to what she felt comfortable with. Our daughter chose to go to boarding school in England for her "A" levels....although ironically we discovered a few months after moving here that a nearby private school offers the IB - although the fees for day pupils are approx $30,000 per year!

At such a critical stage in your daughter's education you should be asking the company for assistance towards school fees if the local public (state) school in the US is unsuitable.

Also bear in mind that if your daughter is resident outside the EU in the three years preceeding a UK university course you may have to jump through hoops to avoid her having to pay international student tuition fees......

Britdrinker

It used to be that you could at least take the UK exams (on the same day at the same GMT) through the Educational Testing Service. That's how I took my O Levels back in the day - and passed them too, despite having been on the US syllabus for two years. However, looking at the ETS website I see no mention of UK exams, although I have to ask ... are they still called 'A Levels'?

KOPchick

They used to be A levels when I took them! Now I think they are called AS and A2!!

Tarkak9

I don't know if they will be of help but have you tried contacting gabbitas in london?
They may be able to point you in directions. I think they cater more about UK schools and insight about foreign schools/unis; not sure about uk schools abroad though. I know that this site is linked and referred to on their site!

Bob

Cost of going to one over here, might as well go to a private school back in blighty, get the company to pay for it as part of the package if you can.

chicagojlo

There are non-British schools in the US that offer the international baccaluareate, if you run it on wikipedia there is a list by state.