EASTWOOD MONTREUX INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
Avenue de Chillon 57, 1820 Montreux, Switzerland
leo.ackerman@eastwoodmontreux.ch
christoph.ott@eastwoodmontreux.ch
Eastwood Montreux, Montreux, Switzerland | Boarding and Day | Middle School through Graduation
Opening September 2026Â
Montreux has long been a place where remarkable things are made. Eastwood Montreux intends to add one more: a new kind of school.
Set above Lac Léman, Eastwood is not a traditional international school. As a boarding and day school for students from Middle School through graduation, it combines world-class IB and Cambridge IGCSE academics, averaging 38.9 out of 45 in IB, with the IMPACT Program – a structured afternoon program where students work on real-life cases across entrepreneurship, technology, sustainability, leadership, the arts, and more. Every student is mentored daily by a network of 53 visionary leaders from business, science, music, and beyond.
Exclusively small, deeply international, and personal by design. Students do not just study the world. They learn to shape it.
CHRISTOPH M. OTT - HEAD OF SCHOOL
I trained as an industrial engineer at ETH Zürich and went on to study at HEC Lausanne, before spending much of my career in international education, most recently at Leysin American School. After years inside some of Switzerland's most established institutions, I have come to believe the best schools are small enough to know every student and ambitious enough to take them seriously. Eastwood is the school I have always wanted to build – rigorous IB and Cambridge academics, mentorship from leaders who have actually shaped their fields, and a setting that lets young people discover who they are and what they're for. I look forward to meeting you.
LEO ACKERMAN - DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS
I studied History at Oxford, and most recently led operations at Copperfield International School in Verbier before dropping out of Harvard to build Eastwood. My path has wound through writing, filmmaking, high-level football, and teaching: and what's tied it all together is a conviction that the most interesting people learn by doing. That's the school I'm helping to build here: world-class IB and Cambridge academics, daily mentorship from a network of remarkable people, and the trust to let young people shape the world, not just study it. I'd love to hear from any family curious about the future of education.