Over five million people reside in the region of the Ruhr in the heart of Germany’s most populated state of North Rhine Westphalia. Surprisingly, while the ISD International School of Düsseldorf in the nearby state capital was founded already in nineteen sixty eight, international schools in the Ruhr Metropolis have developed more recently.

Such places of learning can be found in Essen, Bochum, Duisburg and Heiligenhaus. Due to conflicting information on the ministry website, the owners have executed their right to discretionary publication of information and removed Bochum and Heiligenhaus details at this time. This has no legal foundation; parents are merely advised to research wisely.