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Welcome to Salem!
“Who am I? Which path should I take to lead a happy and fulfilled life?“
Even the very best school cannot answer these two key questions for you. At Salem, however, we are not only interested in who you are when you join our community. We are also curious who you would like to be tomorrow, and what kind of future you dream of. Because we take your dreams seriously, we do not intend our cosmopolitan grammar and boarding school in the South of Germany to be a comfortable paradise. We have organized Salem as a small Polis which provides all kinds of opportunities to discover your strengths as a member of a multinational school community and which enables you after 8 years to take the examination for either the German Abitur or the International Baccalaureate.
As far as the educational concept is concerned, Schule Schloss Salem draws upon the rich Judaeo-Christian and humanistic traditions of Europe and aspires, as defined by its founder Kurt Hahn, to build characters which are able and willing to take on responsibility for themselves and others.
If you would like to find out more about the specific academic, social and physical challenges that students from more than 40 different nations learn to cope with in order to shape their future as independent thinkers with confidence, creativity and strong will power, please do explore the diverse world of Schule Schloss Salem presented on this website, or come to Germany and visit us in the beautiful region of Lake Constance.
Headmaster of Schule Schloss Salem
Bernd Westermeyer
Salem is more than a good school
- Intensive pastoral care in the boarding school (approx. 95 percent of students are boarders)
- Small class sizes (with an average of 16 students)
- Highly qualified teachers
- International Classes in Years 8 – 10 and International Baccalaureate (IB)
- Broad range of foreign languages
- Socially oriented service groups and artisan guilds
- Outdoor education
- Supervised study hour and academic support programmes
- Extensive sports curriculum and extracurricular sports programmes
- Extraordinary learning environment near Lake Constance
- Large libraries with extensive German and international literature
- State-recognized [or: Baden-Württemberg] Abitur or International Baccalaureate Diploma
- Career and university counselling by school-based specialists
- Extensive and highly renown alumni network in Germany and abroad
- Character development and education for responsible leadership
About Salem
Years 5 & 6 (Junior School)
Students in Years 5 & 6 live in the "Rentamt," in a very special location. Built over 200 years ago by Cistercian monks as a cloister school for 100 boys, this stand-alone building again today combines space for living and learning.
Scholarships at Salem
The Kurt Hahn Foundation especially supports the education and academic needs of promising and talented children and adolescents.
Years 5 to 10 celebrated St. Martin's Day on 11 November 2019 with a formal dinner with a delicious Martin's goose in the festive dining room.
Boarding school director Stefan Steinebach gave an extraordinary speech.
Under the motto “100 Years Future“ Schule Schloss Salem will celebrate its 100th anniversary on Friday, 3 April 2020.
