03/16/2026
🖼️Last week our IB artists debuted their work for the exhibition “Continuum”🎨 Huge congrats on your amazing works of art!
United Nations International School
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The United Nations International School (UNIS) is the school of the United Nations, and is a Pre-K-to Additional mother tongues may be studied after school.
The United Nations International School (UNIS) was established in 1947 by a group of United Nations Parents to provide an international education for their children, while preserving their diverse cultural heritages. What began as a nursery school for 20 children quickly grew, adding grades, students and faculty. Today, UNIS has over 1550 students in two locations, serving the United Nations, Inte
03/16/2026
03/12/2026
🎬This week our IB film students got to debut their work at our annual film festival! We are so proud of all of the hard work they put in to make such amazing films🎥
03/06/2026
🐴🏮 Happy Lantern Festival (元宵节快乐) and welcome to the Year of the Horse.
Our Lunar New Year celebrations were full of energy, creativity, and community, from campus festivities to cultural experiences beyond school. Thank you to our students, families, and colleagues for showing up with such great spirit and making the day feel truly special.
Wishing everyone a bright year ahead. 新年快乐，马到成功. ✨
03/04/2026
Join us on March 10th for our Film Festival showcase, featuring the Seniors’ films The Last Train Out, Between Sessions, The Unlucky Man, and Acceptance - four distinct stories connected by movement, transition, and the spaces in between - along with additional selections from T1, T2, and T3; walk the red carpet at 3:45 PM, with screenings beginning at 4:15 PM.
03/02/2026
Happy 100 days of school from our Junior School! 👏
02/24/2026
Today at UNIS we celebrated Italian Language Day! 🇮🇹 In the morning there were delicious treats and mask decorating in the spirit of Carnevale di Venezia 🎭 In the afternoon, Italian Consul General, Mr. Giovanni Pastorelli, spoke with students about the work of the Italian Consulate in New York City and the role of Italian culture and diplomacy in the world today. The day ended with a Masks in Motion Performance with artist Chiara Durazzini where students had a chance to get up, get moving, and learn something new about an Italian art form! 🎭
02/10/2026
Happy National Women and Girls in Science Day! 🧬🧪🥼Today we celebrate the curiosity of our students as they use scientific inquiry to experiment, discover, and innovate.
02/09/2026
The cast of Descendants took us on a thrilling journey through Auradon! 🍎 congrats to the cast & crew on an amazing production!
02/04/2026
Play like a girl! 💪🏼 Happy from UNIS! We are so proud of our student athletes for their dedication, team spirit and sportsmanship🏅
02/03/2026
Latest UNIS alumni updates here!
champagne supernova in the sky While the word “delve” has permeated the broader human lexicon, I refuse to give credit to AI and the mountains of language that were dumped into LLMs, because long before AI, IBH English Literature and UNIS IB classes provided me the word itself and the concept and practice of delving deep into...
01/27/2026
Some highlights from the first semester to celebrate the start of the second semester!🥳
01/23/2026
Today our Junior School came together to celebrate the dream of Martin Luther King ⭐️
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The United Nations International School (UNIS) was established in 1947 by a group of United Nations Parents to provide an international education for their children, while preserving their diverse cultural heritages. What began as a nursery school for 20 children quickly grew, adding grades, students and faculty.
Today, UNIS has over 1550 students in two locations, serving the United Nations, International and New York communities. Our campus in Jamaica Estates, Queens is a K-8 school and our Manhattan campus, overlooking the East River, is K-12. UNIS was one of the founding schools of the International Baccalaureate (IB) and was among those awarding the first diplomas. The comprehensive K-12 curriculum prepares UNIS students for the IB, and the school’s internationally recognized academic standards enable our students and to go on to study in top colleges and universities in the United States and worldwide.
The main language of instruction is English and all students study French or Spanish, beginning in the elementary school; Arabic, Chinese, German, Italian, Japanese and Russian are also taught beginning in the seventh grade at our Manhattan campus. Additional mother tongues may be studied after school.
UNIS is chartered by the New York Board of Regents as an independent, not-for-profit school The school is a member of the College Board, the National Association of Independent Schools, the New York State Association of Independent Schools, the International Baccalaureate Organization, the European Council of International Schools and the Council of International Schools.
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