Welcome to Salem!
Get to know us
Welcome to Salem International Boarding School and thank you for visiting our website. Being Germany's biggest boarding school, Schule Schloss Salem hosts 600 students from all over the world on three different campus sites. We look forward to presenting our school to you on a personal site visit. Please direct yourself to our team admissions in order to schedule a meeting in Salem.
In the meantime, there are various (and comfortable) possibilities of getting to know Salem from home:
Due to current events we continue to offer you the opportunity to get to know Salem from home. For this purpose we present four ways that will bring you closer to the Salem boarding school:
- What about registering for one of our digital information events on Salem?Our Roadshow in English presents the pedagogical approach, a typical Salem day and innumerous images of the school to you, providing a good overview of what Salem is all about. Please register here!
- We invite you on our virtual tour. Digitally and comfortably from home you can explore our three locations.
- Through our Youtube videos you will get a revealing insight into our boarding school life and learn more about the historically significant Salem Castle, where our pupils of the 5th - 10th grades live and learn.
- Find out on the page We are Salem - What makes our boarding school so special, what are the special features in Salem that distinguish us from both state schools and other boarding schools.
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 14 students)
- Highly qualified teachers
- International Classes in Years 8 – 10 and International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma
- 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
Scholarships at Schule Schloss Salem
Children and adolescents who want to know what they can achieve, who want to expand their horizon and their talents and who want to put their efforts into the service of a multinational community of young people, are invited to apply for a scholarship at Schule Schloss Salem near Lake Constance. It is possible to apply for a partial scholarship throughout the year.
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.
Art project "Self-portrait with face mask
An art course in our upper school has published a "digital" art project as part of the online lessons. All course participants have artistically portrayed themselves wearing a breathing mask. The result was a wide variety of photomontages in the most diverse styles of art.
From 1934 to 1943, Dr Heinrich Blendinger led Salem in the spirit of its founders. It was due to him that Salem was able to survive with a minimum of compromise until almost the end of National Socialism. 8 September 2021 is the 140th anniversary of his birth.
The two alumni Nora Grabmayr and Stella Poelzig, spoke in the school assembly about jobs in the energy industry, the current challenges in the energy industry, renewable energies and the energy turnaround, as well as the power of an almost twenty-year friendship that began in Salem.
