Phone +98 21 2261 8657 | Founded 1980 | |
Address Similar Tehran American School, Tehran Japanese School, École Française de Téhéran | ||
German Embassy School Tehran (German: Deutsche Botschaftsschule Teheran, DBST) is a German international school in Tehran. The school serves kindergarten through Sekundarstufe II (senior high school). There is a nursery through class 8 international section.
It shares its campus with the former The British School, Tehran (BST). After the BST's closure in 2011, the DBST acquired the BST's assets and established an international section operating in the former BST campus.
History
The first German school in Tehran opened in 1907. It closed in World War II but reopened in 1955. It closed in the spring of 1980.
The current German school was established in September 1980.
In 2011 the school closed for a period after the 2011 attack on the British Embassy in Iran occurred. Some windows of the German school building were shattered by the siege.