Concordia International School Hanoi

The short version

The short version

Concordia International School Hanoi is the city’s established American-curriculum school: a WASC-accredited day school from preschool to Grade 12, teaching an adapted US curriculum to an American high school diploma with Advanced Placement courses in the upper school.

It belongs to a small family of schools rooted in the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod tradition, alongside Concordia International School Shanghai and Hong Kong International School — sister schools that describe foundational, ongoing relationships with one another.↗↗

For a relocating family, the practical summary is this: Concordia publishes its fees more transparently than any other Hanoi school — exact 2026-27 VND figures beside the 2025-26 table, from VND 558.0 million (Preschool) to VND 1,038.8 million (Grades 11–12), an increase of roughly 8% year on year.

The campus sits inside the Van Tri Golf Estate in Dong Anh district, north of central Hanoi toward the airport — a real commute decision for families planning to live in Tay Ho or Ba Dinh.↗↗

What the school is

American, Lutheran-rooted, deliberately mid-sized

Concordia opened in 2011 as a preschool-to-Grade-7 school and grew a grade a year, graduating its first high school class in 2017. Its founding tradition is the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod’s network of Asian international schools — the same family that produced Hong Kong International School — and it holds National Lutheran School Accreditation alongside WASC.

How faith features in the daily timetable today is not spelled out publicly; families for whom the Christian foundation matters, in either direction, should ask directly how it is expressed now.↗↗

The school is deliberately mid-sized: EARCOS lists a peak enrolment of 569, and reviewers describe a community of roughly 400–600 students, mainly American, Korean and Vietnamese passport holders, with a reported rule that no single nationality may exceed one third of the student body.

Against UNIS’s 20% cap and 1,100-plus roll, Concordia offers a smaller, more contained community — which many American families in Hanoi cite as the point.↗↗

EARCOS lists the head of school as Dr. Doug Grove.

The testing programme recorded by the association is SAT, AP and MAP — the standard American-school toolkit — and the school’s membership of EARCOS puts it inside the region’s professional and activities network for US-curriculum schools.↗

Academics in practice

The AP pathway, aimed at US admissions

Concordia teaches an adapted American curriculum through elementary and middle school, into a US high school diploma with Advanced Placement courses in the upper years. For families heading to US universities this is the most direct route available in Hanoi: AP scores, SAT readiness and a WASC-accredited transcript that US admissions offices read without translation.

For families who might pivot to the UK or IB systems, that transfer question deserves a conversation before enrolment.↗↗

The school does not publish AP results, SAT averages or a university-matriculation list on its public pages — a gap that matters at this fee level.

Ask admissions for the most recent AP score distribution with candidate numbers and the last three years of college destinations, and read them against cohort size: with a few dozen graduates a year, one strong or weak cohort moves the averages.↗

Reviewers consistently describe Concordia’s strength as pastoral rather than league-table: a strong community culture, active parent involvement and a supportive environment for mid-year arrivals — which, in a posting-driven city, is most of the intake at some point.

Families with children who need more than standard learning support should test provision early and in writing, as public documentation of support services is thin.↗↗

Admissions and cost

The most transparent fee page in Hanoi — read it closely

Concordia publishes exact tuition for two years side by side. For 2026-27: Preschool VND 558,034,000; Reception VND 677,865,000; Grades 1–5 VND 861,787,000; Grades 6–8 VND 912,192,000; Grades 9–10 VND 1,001,962,000; Grades 11–12 VND 1,038,822,000.

Against 2025-26 that is a rise of roughly 8% at every band — one of the larger single-year increases in the city, and exactly the kind of figure families should annualise over a full posting.↗

The application fee is VND 10.8 million (about USD 400 if paid from outside Vietnam). Full fee documents with the payment schedule and sibling discounts are published on the same page — no other Hanoi school makes this as easy, and it sets a standard worth holding the other schools to when you compare.↗

On demand: there is no public waitlist data, and a mid-sized school in a posting-driven market typically has more movement than Hanoi’s two premium names — but that is pattern, not measurement.

Apply early in the cycle for autumn entry, and ask admissions directly about current availability in your child’s grade before paying the application fee.↗

The family experience

The Van Tri question: a golf-estate campus north of town

Concordia’s campus sits inside the Van Tri Golf Estate, Kim No Commune, Dong Anh district — north of the Red River’s city stretch, on the road toward Noi Bai airport. That is a different Hanoi from the West Lake enclave: greener, quieter, and meaningfully farther from Tay Ho, Ba Dinh and the embassy quarter.

Some families choose to live north and make the campus the anchor of daily life; others bus children across town. Bus-route coverage and real journey times from your shortlisted neighbourhood belong at the top of the visit checklist.↗↗

Community is the school’s selling point in practice: reviewers describe strong parent involvement and a close American-international culture, and the sister-school relationship with Concordia Shanghai and HKIS gives staff and families an unusual cross-city network within one school tradition. For families posted between Asian cities, that continuity can be a genuine soft landing.↗↗

Who thrives here: US-curriculum families, especially those targeting American universities; families who want a smaller, pastoral school over a big-campus brand; and households comfortable organising life around the north of the city. Who should look elsewhere: families wanting the IB continuum (UNIS), British structure (BIS Hanoi), or a campus inside the Tay Ho expat enclave.↗

Take these to the school

Questions that move beyond the tour script