The German School Nairobi is a community school in the best sense, where boys and girls can acquire their secondary modern school leaving certificate, vocational school leaving certificate or the German International Abitur. As we are a small, mostly single-intake school, teaching is in mixed groups, which are differentiated not just by school type. The basis for the teaching are the curricula, which follow the standards of the Conference of Ministers for Education and Culture (KMK) and are approved by Germany. The Abitur requirements are based on the core curriculum of the KMK; tasks and examinations are checked by the KMK. English as the language of the host country of Kenya is considered especially in the subjects of Geography and History. They are taught in English or bilingually. French is introduced as a second language in Class 6.

At the same time as the celebrations for its 50th anniversary, the German School Nairobi took part in a tender from the German Foreign Office and the Central Office for Schools Abroad and was awarded the contract to publish its school history under the title “Remembering for the Present - How Us became what we are “to work through. First of all, 12 pupils from grades 9-12 got together in a voluntary working group and worked out a concept to work through and present the history of the Michael Grzimek School. In order to reach the broadest possible group of interested parties and to make the results usable in the future, the young people decided to create a website.