BHS
For students ages 3 to 18, BHS is a one-of-a-kind international American school in Barcelona Spain created to solve the failures of traditional education.
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The main issue with the traditional education system is that it is based on having power over students as the method to teach and control them.
At BHS, however, student progress comes NOT from having power over students but from empowering students.
Barcelona High School (BHS) was founded in 2020 during Covid by American entrepreneur, Harvard graduate and Barcelona resident, Akida Mashaka, who became obsessed with the need for a better education model for his teenage son when the Covid epidemic exposed that the traditional education system was a failure in the modern world.
The problem with traditional schools is that they still use the outdated rote memorization teaching method designed 200 years ago in the industrial age that uses strict and boring repetitive tasks as the way to control and teach students to be cogs in a machine, and not to think outside the box.
Moreover, the traditional school system lacks equal focus on the social and emotional wellbeing of students and fails to prepare students for the world that exists today.
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BHS, however, is a non-traditional school specifically created to solve the failures of traditional education so all students in the post-Covid era not only excel academically, to attend the world's most elite universities if desired, but also excel socially and psychologically as well in equal measure to truly find their superpower to have control over their own destiny.
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Accordingly, BHS is the first Social Wellness School™ in the world and the fastest growing American school in Barcelona.
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Five years ago, BHS started as a high school but then added a middle school three years later to keep up with the growing demand of families who wanted the best modern education for their children. Now for this 2025-2026 school year, all of these students will be in our new secondary school campus building.
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Moreover, BHS has opened a new primary school campus with an elementary school and preschool also for this 2025-2026 school year to fully serve as the best international American school in Barcelona for creating global citizens of the world and to fully revolutionize education as we know it.​​​
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Although BHS is growing rapidly, BHS has the most internationally diverse student population from around the world while still maintaining a small student-teacher ratio unlike other international and American traditional schools. This growth, small class size and unity in diversity creates the most amazing student life and student core values.
This is why BHS students say:
"BHS feels like one big family where we get to make new friends everyday".
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BHS uses its own modern pedagogy known as the BHS Method™. In this methodology, the BHS stands for "Build. Harvest. Succeed." which means that students learn better by doing versus long and boring lectures and memorization as the best way to obtain the skills they will need for the world they will be in.​
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Therefore, BHS is NOT for you if you prefer traditional schools because of their strict rules, educational philosophy that only "teaches to the test", or the happiness of your child is not your top priority.
BHS is also NOT for you if you prefer super alternative schools that don't value academic structure and the importance of a student's ability to reach their full potential through perseverence.
However, BHS is the PERFECT school for you if you want a school that keeps its promise to holistically teach students to be problem solvers and in charge of their own destiny through academic curiosity, social engagement and psychological wellness.​​