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Dugopolje, Croatia · Private
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Split International School is a private school teaching in English, standing in Dugopolje outside Split and drawing students from the whole Split coast: its own buses and minibuses run from Trogir to Podstrana and through the districts of Split. There are twelve grades, from the first to the twelfth, and the school's families represent more than seventeen nationalities. There are two leaving routes: the International Baccalaureate diploma and an American diploma accredited by Middle States. The school names twenty-three teachers with their degrees and experience, and alongside them a support service - two psychologists, two educational counsellors, learning support specialists and a classroom assistant in the primary years. The fees include classroom and laboratory materials, curriculum licences and daily meals. The school does not publish student numbers, exam results or a list of universities, and its website no longer has a school policies section.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $10 455–19 749 a year
9 000–17 000 EUR
Languages of instruction
English
Languages taught
Croatian, German, Spanish
Registration fee
≈ $581
500 EUR
About the fees The school prints its annual figures for 2025/2026 by stage: 9,000 EUR for grades 1 and 2, 11,000 for grades 3 and 4, 13,000 for grades 5 to 8, 15,000 for grades 9 and 10, 17,000 for grades 11 and 12. All invoices are issued in euros and paid by bank transfer only; the choice is four equal payments a year, payment in full, or instalments by agreement. Fees are recalculated by quarter for a transfer in the middle of the year, and the enrollment, capital and transport fees are not refunded.
Admissions The school takes applications in three waves: an early one from 1 December to 31 January, a regular one from 1 February to 31 March, and after that as places remain. With the application it asks for scans of the student's identity document and last year's report card, then a meeting at the school or a conversation by video call, and a test in language and mathematics if that is needed. The school charges no application fee at all; the place is secured after a written offer of admission and the enrollment fee.
Stages and year groups Grades grades 1 to 12. An English-language school with a primary and an upper stage. The primary stage follows the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme; the upper school offers the diploma and an American diploma; the language laboratory works with grades 1 to 6. The school promises its second-child discount “for students enrolled in 1st through 12th grade”, so it has twelve grades in place.
Address Kninska ulica 9, 21204 Dugopolje
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · PYP, DP · authorised programmeMSA · accreditationThe International Baccalaureate lists two programmes for the school - the Primary Years Programme PYP and the Diploma Programme DP. The Middle Years Programme is taught at the school, but is held at candidate stage: its documents are a PYP authorization certificate, a DP authorization certificate and a candidacy letter for the MYP. The school's American diploma is accredited by Middle States, and both stages - primary and upper secondary - are recognised by the Croatian Ministry of Science and Education.
school is in an official registryconfirmed by a school document, by membership or by taking part in a networkclaimed by the school, no confirmation, not counted in the scoreGuide to all organisations → What stands behind each entry
IBInternational Baccalaureate
A Swiss non-profit, working since 1968. Its programmes are among the most widely recognised school programmes in the world. Authorisation is granted stage by stage, so a school with the final stage does not necessarily run the younger ones; which stages this school holds is set out in the line below.
What the badge means for this school. The school is allowed to run this programme and to award its certificate. This is a confirmation of the programme, not a judgement on the school as a whole. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it. At this school: PYP (ages 3-12), DP (ages 16-19). PYP is the primary stage, ages 3 to 12. It is not a set of subjects but a frame for the whole school: learning is built around lines of inquiry, and there are no exams at the end. DP is the final stage, ages 16 to 19: six subjects plus a compulsory core of theory of knowledge, an extended essay and CAS. The diploma is accepted by universities all over the world, and in a number of countries it counts for admission on the same footing as the local leaving certificate.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →MSAMiddle States Association of Colleges and Schools
One of the oldest American accreditations, working since 1887 in more than a hundred countries and linked to the Office of Overseas Schools of the US State Department. It judges the school as an institution across twelve areas, including finances, governance, premises and student support.
What the badge means for this school. The school has been through this organisation's accreditation. It was judged as a whole: governance, safeguarding, staff, premises, teaching. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →Exams and destinations from the school's official website
The school publishes nothing about where its leavers go: no share going on to university, no exam results, no list of universities.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
·Sports hallnot stated on the website
✓Laboratories
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
·Librarynot stated on the website
✓Catering
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: one campus in Dugopolje; its own buses and minibuses, run by licensed contractors, bring pupils in from Trogir to Podstrana and across the districts of Split
Clubs and activities: First Lego League robotics · SIS Run Club · Mathematics and science olympiads
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
✓Number of teachers23
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
for every teacher the degree, university and length of service are given - from bachelor's to doctoral study, with previous schools and countries named The school names twenty-three teachers by name and subject: middle and upper school mathematics, humanities, literature, Croatian, German, biology, chemistry, physics, design and computer science, visual art, music, physical education. Degrees and length of service are listed for each, and for some of them International Baccalaureate certificates and experience with the IGCSE and A Level programmes. The staff is international: Chicago, Durban, the United Kingdom, Canada, Austria, Australia, Croatia, and some of the teachers have schools in the Cayman Islands, Andorra, Myanmar, Micronesia and Palau behind them. A support service of eight people and an administration of five, including the deputy head of school, are named separately. The school does not give a pupil-teacher ratio. the school calls its classes small but gives no numbers
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
·CCTVnot stated on the website
·Security staffnot stated on the website
·Access controlnot stated on the website
·Nurse or medical roomnot stated on the website
✓Counsellor
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The school has two psychologists and two counselling pedagogues on its staff - one of each for the upper and for the lower school - and alongside them learning support specialists and a classroom assistant at the primary stage. When hiring, the school makes a check of the candidate's documents, references and background a mandatory step. The school does not post a separate child protection document: its site no longer has a section with school policies.
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)95 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data55 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data60 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)90 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data70 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data75 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data67 "Scored on disclosed data" stands where we count only what the school has written about itself on its own site: exams and destinations, safety and wellbeing, teaching staff, facilities, clubs and activities. A low score here means the school does not write about this, not that the school does not have it: a school with good security and a sparse site will score low. A school can fill in its profile, and the score will be counted again.
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