About AIS

At a glance

Asker International School is a school recently established within the municipality of Asker kommune. The school first opened its doors in August 2013.

Starting with 5 grades and expanding vertically every year, the school offers an IB structured curriculum. The school started in 2013 with 39 students and 8 employees. We now have approximately 600 students and over 60 staff employed in either part-time or full-time positions. We are fortunate to have waiting lists for almost all our grades.

We are currently registered as an authorised world school in both the Primary Years Programme and the Middle Years Programme, having recently completed an evaluation of both programmes. We are also a ‘MOT’ school, a ‘Dysleksi Norge’ School and a Eco-Lighthouse organisation.

Asker International School has students and staff from over 40 nationalities within our school community and we look forward to expanding this representation that provides us a truly international environment.

Our subject provision in the Middle Years Programme is Mathematics, English, Norwegian, Sciences, Individuals and Societies, Physical Education, Performing arts, Design, Spanish and Mandarin. We do not have an elective foreign language at present.

Municipality of Asker

I 2020 Asker became a bigger municipality, with the merging of Røyken, Hurum and Asker into one single municipality.

Asker is located on the outskirts of Oslo, just a 20-minute train ride from the city centre. With forests and hillsides on its verges, the coast to the south and the E18 motorway linking the capital to the south running through its centre, Asker provides the best of both worlds – immediate access to the capital in one direction and a retreat to nature in every direction.

Here are some figures on our new municipality:

8th largest municipality in Norway with 94,185 citizens over 376 km2

An annual budget of 7.3 billion NOK

170km of coastline