Fountain International School — an international Cambridge school in San Juan, Metro Manila where every child is known: Cambridge taught by hand, the world made close, a second family.
Small classes. A genuinely global community. Teachers who know your child by name.
Our heartbeat“Where love and concern spell success.”
It’s an old line, and we’ve never wanted a newer one. A child learns best from someone who clearly delights in them — and everything here begins right there.
Take a walk through, before you visit.
Press play for a look around — the spaces, the light, and the rooms where the days actually happen. Then come and see it in person.
Numbers we can stand behind.
We fixed what the old site got wrong. No invented figures, no broken counters — just what's true, shown plainly and confirmed before launch.
Figures shown are placeholders pending verification against current official records before launch.
Four things we mean — and a moment that proves each.
Not adjectives. Real classrooms, real children, real teachers. (These stories are placeholders in our own voice, to be replaced with consented, true ones.)
Personalized Academic: a candid photo that shows "cambridge rigor, delivered by hand."
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Cambridge rigor, delivered by hand.
Small classes and an adviser teacher who knows where each child is strong and where they need more time. Rigor that adapts to the child — never the other way around.
“When Maya hit a wall in IGCSE maths, her teacher didn't slow the whole class. She stayed back twenty minutes a day for three weeks. Maya didn't just pass — she tutors the Year 9s now.”
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Distinguished Character: a candid photo that shows "we help form who the child becomes."
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We help form who the child becomes.
Report cards measure a term. Character lasts a life. We pay attention to the kind of person a child is becoming — honest, kind, and unafraid to lead.
“A boy found a phone in the corridor and gave up his lunch break to track down the owner — a Year 7 he'd never met. Nobody asked him to. That's the report card we read most closely.”
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International Culture: a candid photo that shows "the world, made close."
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The world, made close.
About half the school comes from somewhere else. Twenty-plus passports in the hallway means a child learns the world by sitting beside it every day.
“Grade 4 was silent for weeks — new country, no English. So his teacher learned ten words of his language and greeted him every morning. By the school play, he had a speaking part.”
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Close-Knit Community: a candid photo that shows "every child, known by name."
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Every child, known by name.
A school where the teachers know your child — and you. Families call it a second family, and they mean it: Family Day, the same warm faces, year after year.
“On Family Day, an alumna from the class of 2014 turned up — not for a reunion, just to watch her old teacher's new students perform. She still calls her 'Teacher.'”
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One hallway, twenty-plus passports*
The stories behind the school.
Real families, told with their blessing. Until then, these are written in our own voice — and clearly marked.
I didn’t realise how rare it was to be known by every teacher until I left. FIS is the reason I knew how to introduce myself to a professor.
A Cambridge pathway that travels.
Our graduates carry internationally recognised qualifications — and the habit of being known — to universities here and overseas. We’ll publish the named destinations once each family says yes.
- 99% Cambridge pass rate across recent cohorts*
- AS & A Level qualifications recognised worldwide
- Alumni at universities in the Philippines and abroad*
Some children just need a school that says yes.
The quiet one. The anxious one. The child a bigger, stricter school couldn’t quite hold. If you’ve searched and been disappointed before, start with a conversation — no pressure, no assessment to fear.
See the school your child would actually walk into.
A visit tells you more than any website can. Come meet the teachers, sit in on a class, and watch how a smaller school pays attention.