"Excellent German School Abroad"

The quality-certificate "Excellent German School Abroad" is to ensure and develop the quality of German schools abroad, the Central Agency for Schools Abroad (ZfA) introduced the Federal State Inspection of German Schools Abroad (BLI) in 2008. The initiative "Excellent German School Abroad" started in the year 2011, whereby German schools abroad would prove their quality and consistency, in order to be awarded the quality certificate.

In September 2013 the inspection at the German School New Delhi was undertaken by Ms. Schröder-Klein from Bremen, and Ms. Thiel from Hannover. The DSND passed this inspection with distinction thereby achieving the award of "Excellent German Overseas School".


On 28th May 2014, the German Ambassador to India Michael Steiner handed over the quality certificate “Excellent German School Abroad” to the German School in New Delhi in a festive event at the school. The quality certificate, which is signed by the Federal President Joachim Gauck, acknowledges the school as a place of high level education and encounter.