Students frequently outperform their counterparts in standardized tests, successfully participate in international and national academic competitions, and have the possibility to earn language certificates due to cooperation with the Institut Français and the Instituto Cervantes.

Tuition for the 2016-2017 school year is 1,162,500 HUF excluding additional fees for registration, materials, extracurriculars, lunch, class trips, excursions, and transportation.

[8] The school prides itself on its diversity, serving students from a wide range of cultural, ethnic and racial backgrounds.

Albeit smaller than most other international schools in Budapest, it is proportionally more diverse and more focused on a cosmopolitan education with especially Grades 9-12 serving as examples of cross-cultural communication and understanding.

The German School is considered to be the go-to institution for an increasing number of diplomat, expat and bilingual families, as well as the Hungarian elite.

Due to the high tuition fees and rigorous admission process, it primarily caters to an exclusive group of families.

Apart from several specialty classrooms for the art and science classes, there is a computer room, a library with over 7,000 books,[10] a gym and a professionally equipped theater.

For class trips, project excursions and training camps the school owns a holiday house in Gárdony, at the shore of Lake Velence.

Due to increasing number of students, a major expansion project designed by BH Architects has started in August 2016.

[11] Each year the school offers a wide variety of extracurricular activities: from intramurals and club sports to arts, music and science.

The basketball team has also had notable successes, not the least thanks to the annual student-teacher match on the last school day before Christmas break.

Once seniors have passed their first semester of finals and are admitted to the leaving examinations, they are allowed to wear a distinctive bright-blue ribbon on their coats.

The Szalagavató takes place in late November or early December marking the final stage of a student's school career.

It is a white tie event taking place in the school, commonly presided over by the German Ambassador to Budapest or another high-ranking state officer and attended by the students´ families, friends, diplomats and corporate leadership.

Seniors walk through classrooms decorated with flowers for this purpose, singing traditional commercium songs, such as Gaudeamus Igitur.