← Back to homeVector International Academy
Ljubljana, Slovenia · est. 2019 · Private
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Vector International Academy is a private high school at Štula 23 in Ljubljana, working since 2019 and housed in the building of Zavod sv. Stanislava, built in 1905. It takes teenagers aged 15-18 and runs four years: the first two are the international GCSE from Pearson Edexcel, usually around nine subjects, and the last two are the International Baccalaureate diploma. The school is small on purpose: there are about ten people in the GCSE classes, fewer than ten in the diploma groups, and the school states a ratio of 2.5 students to one teacher. Lessons are in English, Slovene is taught free of charge to those who want it, and French or German is taken as a second language. For those who come for the diploma without their parents there is a boarding house on the grounds; every student, whatever their year, gets a weekly session on choosing a university. The graduates of 2023 went on to the University of St Andrews, King's College London, the American University of Rome, European Business School Munich and the University of Ljubljana, and the best diploma result in May 2025 was 43 points out of 45.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $16 961–20 121 a year
14 600–17 320 EUR
Programmes
IB · DP · Cambridge · IGCSE · Pearson Edexcel
Languages of instruction
English
Languages taught
Slovene, French, German
About the fees The school publishes its price list for 2027/2028 as a table on the admissions page: IGCSE Y10 - 16 060 euros, IGCSE Y11 - 14 600 euros, DP1 - 17 320 euros, DP2 - 15 750 euros a year. The school charges no registration or entrance fees and requires no deposit. The place is secured by a payment of 5 per cent of the tuition sum on enrolment. The fee does not include textbooks, examinations, trips, special equipment such as a graphing calculator, additional learning support, additional languages and help with arranging residence. The school separately warns that the fee may differ for those who do not live in Slovenia ("tuition fees may vary for non-Slovene residents"), but there is no second line of prices on the website.
Admissions The deadlines for 2027/2028 are named: early admission by 27 November 2026, regular admission by 31 March 2027. Five steps: contact, a visit in person or by video call, a trial day, documents, an offer of a place. The trial day is an interview with the head of the school and the teachers, a tour, tests in English and mathematics, sitting in on several lessons, time with the students and a look at the boarding house if it is needed. Documents: the completed and signed form, the two most recent reports, a copy of the passport or of the identity card. The school calls itself a school of open enrolment: "we have an open enrolment and welcome students who can rise to this challenge". The entry points are the first and the third year, that is, Y10 and DP1; joining in the middle of the year is considered case by case, because both the GCSE and the diploma are two-year programmes. Children from Slovene schools are mentioned separately: they usually move into the programme without difficulty if their English is good enough to read the study material.
Stages and year groups Grades IGCSE Y10-Y11, IB DP1-DP2 (British Y10-Y13). High school only, four years. The first and the second year are the Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (British Y10 and Y11, American Grades 9 and 10), with external examinations in May-June of the second year. The third and the fourth year are the International Baccalaureate diploma (Y12 and Y13, American Grades 11 and 12). The school has no lower stages.
Address Štula 23, 1000 Ljubljana
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · DP · authorised programmeschool 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: DP (ages 16-19). 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.
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Programmes of the University of Cambridge: the school teaches to Cambridge syllabuses and enters its pupils for exams that Cambridge marks itself. IGCSE means exams at around Year 10 or 11, the British counterpart of a lower secondary leaving certificate.
What this means for this school. The papers are marked by Cambridge, not by the school, so a leaver's grade does not depend on how strict their own teachers are with them. To enter pupils for these exams a school has to be registered as a Cambridge exam centre; registration as a centre is permission to run exams rather than accreditation of the school, and it says nothing about the quality of teaching. IGCSE is taken at around Year 10 or 11 and A-Level in the final years, and it is the A-Level results that carry a pupil into British and many other universities.
Pearson Edexcel
A British exam board, the second after Cambridge. It issues its own versions of IGCSE and A-Level: the programme is the same in substance, what differs is who sets and marks the exams.
What this means for this school. The exams are set and marked by Pearson, and the school acts as an exam centre. Universities accept IGCSE and A-Level from Pearson on the same footing as the Cambridge ones. One caveat about checking: the Pearson centre search shows only those centres that agreed to be shown, so the absence of a school from it proves nothing.
Exams and destinations from the school's official website
Exam results The school does not print an average diploma score, but it names individual results. It calls the best result of May 2025 a record for itself - 43 points out of 45. On the international GCSE for the same year: all the Y10 students passed English as a second language with distinction; one passed the full French course with a grade 9; three completed the full mathematics course a year early and all three got a grade 9; one Y10 student sat nine papers and came in the hundredth percentile on seven of them, that is, nobody in the world did better. The class of 2024 was 16 people from 13 cities around the world.
Where leavers go: University of St Andrews · King's College London · American University of Rome · European Business School Munich · University of Ljubljana
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
✓Sports hall
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
✓Boarding
Campus: The school lives inside Zavod sv. Stanislava, in a complex of buildings from 1905. Named are a modern library for independent study, several sports halls with a climbing wall, bouldering, table tennis and floorball, a kitchen of its own with a dining hall, a boarding house on the grounds for those who come for the diploma without their parents, and green grounds with a view of the surrounding hills. The school is on city bus routes 1, 8 and 25, at the Podgora stop. The school does not state its floor area.
Clubs and activities: Programming · Chess · Debating · Art club · Model United Nations · Mathematics olympiad preparation · Slovene · Volleyball
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
·Number of teachersthe school does not say
✓Students per teacher or class sizein the key facts above
The school states a ratio of 2.5 students to one teacher, about ten people in the GCSE classes and fewer than ten in the diploma groups. On turnover it speaks plainly: not a single member of staff has left the school so far, and every one of them gets a permanent contract. The requirement for new teachers is international teaching experience. The school does not post its staff by name on the website: it has no teachers page, and from the news only the arrival of a history teacher and of a psychology teacher for the diploma is known.
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
✓CounsellorEach small year group has a form tutor of its own, and the school names that tutor's first task outright: "A form tutor's primary role is the pastoral support and wellbeing of our students"; they meet daily.
✓Child protection policyThe school does have school rules and a student handbook, but the page with them is password-protected, and the child protection policy cannot be read.
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policyThe approach to behaviour is described like this: "we encourage high standards of behaviour through the promotion of mutual respect and student self-discipline", and the environment is to be "safe, healthy, kind and free from prejudice and intimidation".
Reviews
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Academics and programmes (16%)84 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data80 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data70 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data80 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 "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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