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 foundational problem with traditional education 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 and students once the Covid epidemic exposed that traditional education 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The problem with traditional schools is that they still use the outdated rote memorization teaching method designed 200 years ago in the industrial age that uses boring and repetitive tasks as the way to control and teach students to be cogs in a machine.
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 the anti-traditional school specifically created to solve the failures of traditional education so all students in the post-Covid world, and social media 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 international school in Europe.
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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 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 the traditional school system that only "teaches to the test". Also, BHS is NOT for you if you prefer super alternative schools that lack academic structure which undermines 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.
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Only 5 years ago, BHS started as the American high school "Barcelona High School" but then quickly added a middle school in 2023 to keep up with demand from families who wanted the best modern education for their children.
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Now for this 2025-2026 school year, BHS has opened a new primary campus with an elementary school and preschool to fully serve as the #1 international American school in Barcelona for creating global citizens of the world and to fully revolutionize education as we know it.​​​​