Akademeia High School is a private British secondary school in Warsaw, opened in 2016; in 2026 about 350 students of more than 35 nationalities attend. Under Polish law it is a non-public four-year secondary school with ministry permission to teach a British curriculum; all lessons except Polish and foreign languages are taught in English. The student pathway: Year 9 is a Foundation Year (equivalent to grade 8 of Polish primary school), Years 10-11 are courses to the iGCSE standard and the school's own courses, Year 11 Pre-A is the entry point for newcomers without GCSEs, and Years 12-13 are three or four A Level subjects chosen from more than twenty, plus Academic Writing and optionally the EPQ. Classes have up to 12 students, each student has a mentor, and there is a wellbeing team and 11 university advisors. A third of the teachers hold PhDs or are PhD candidates. In 2026, 47% of 94 graduates achieved three or more A-A* grades at A Level; graduates go to Cambridge, Oxford, LSE, UCL and Imperial, as well as US and European universities. There is a boarding house for international and out-of-town students.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $38 838–46 198 a year
150 400–178 900 PLN
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · Pearson Edexcel
Languages of instruction
English
Languages taught
Polish, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Chinese
Class size
up to 12 students
Registration fee
≈ $775
3 000 PLN
Deposit
≈ $2 582
10 000 PLN
About the fees Fees for 2026/2027, paid over three terms: Years 9-11 150400 PLN per year, Years 12-13 (A Level) 178900 PLN per year. Fees include books, curriculum workshops and trips, clubs, olympiad preparation, arts materials, sport, wellbeing and learning support, university guidance and insurance. Discounts: 5% for the first and 10% for the second sibling, 4% for paying the full year in advance.
Admissions Entry points are Year 9, Year 10, Pre-A (Year 11) and Year 12. Steps: enquiry form, application form, registration for a two-day assessment (3000 PLN fee), decision within 14 days with a diagnostic report. For Years 9-10: English and mathematics tests, online verbal, non-verbal reasoning and creative comprehension tests, a group task and a meeting with a subject teacher. For Years 11 and 12: written English, mathematics (for A Level mathematics or biology), at least three meetings with teachers of the chosen subjects, a modern foreign language test (Year 11) and a meeting with university advisors (Year 12). Assessment days for 2027/2028: 27-28 November 2026, 19-20 February, 19-20 March and 23-24 April 2027; for 2026/2027 individual assessments are held over the summer. The school welcomes international applicants living in Poland and abroad; a good level of English is required. Candidates living abroad do not need to attend the assessment days in person - they are assessed in individual meetings, and families not resident in Poland are offered a boarding place subject to availability. Students from abroad are placed in a year group based on documents, or by interview if they have none.
Stages and year groups Grades Year 9-13. British curriculum: Year 9 is a Foundation Year (equivalent to grade 8 of Polish szkoła podstawowa); Years 10-11 are core subjects to the iGCSE standard and the school's own Akademeia Assessed Courses; Year 11 Pre-A is a one-year A Level preparation for students joining in Year 11; Years 12-13 are A Levels (three or four subjects, compulsory Academic Writing, optional EPQ). Polish: Polish citizens study Polish language, Polish history and geography to the Polish curriculum and take Polish as an additional A Level; the statutes preserve their right to move to a Polish school and sit the Polish matura. The school's exam centre is accredited by Cambridge International (A Level and GCSE), Pearson Edexcel (International A Level, International GCSE, A Level, GCSE) and AQA. Pearson Edexcel courses named on the site: International GCSE French, German and Spanish, GCSE Russian, International Advanced Level Economics.
Address ul. św. Urszuli Ledóchowskiej 2, 02-972 Warszawa
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · authorised programmePearson · authorised programmeBSO · accreditationCOBIS · accreditationHMC · part of the allianceThe Cambridge and Pearson registers name the school as their centre: it teaches GCSE and A Level through both Cambridge and Pearson Edexcel. The school holds a British Schools Overseas (BSO) inspection. The school is an accredited member of COBIS. The school is a member of HMC.
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
CambridgeCambridge International Education
Part of the University of Cambridge. It allows a school to teach the Cambridge programmes and to enter pupils for the exams. There are four stages and they are authorised separately: primary, lower secondary, IGCSE and A Level. If the stages are known they are named in the line below; if that line is missing, the school does not publish them, and the Cambridge registry does not show stages either - it gives only the name of the centre, the country and whether private candidates are accepted. Cambridge calls what it does registration rather than accreditation, and the network holds about ten thousand schools.
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: IGCSE (ages 14-16), A-Level (ages 16-18). IGCSE means exams at around Year 10 or 11, the British counterpart of a lower secondary leaving certificate. A-Level is the senior years, and their results are what British and many other universities admit on.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →PearsonPearson Edexcel, a British exam board
It gives a school approved centre status: that means Pearson exams can be sat in the school itself. What is checked is the premises, the equipment, the secure storage of papers and the presence of trained invigilators.
What the badge means for this school. The school can run Pearson exams on its own premises. The status says nothing about teaching, about results or about the school itself: any school able to run an exam securely holds it. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it. Which Pearson qualifications this school is approved for is not stated here.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →BSOBritish government inspection of schools overseas
A scheme of the UK Department for Education: a school abroad is inspected against the standards for independent schools in England, including safeguarding and the standards for boarding. The inspections are done by independent inspectorates approved by the department, and the inspectorates themselves are monitored annually by Ofsted. The reports are published in full on the government website.
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 →COBISCouncil of British International Schools
An association of British schools abroad with a quality inspection of its own. It has nine membership categories, and the word "accredited" appears in seven of them, although COBIS does its own inspection in one: in the rest it recognises an accreditation granted by somebody else.
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 →HMCConference of heads of British independent schools
It is a head who becomes a member of this conference, not a school: membership is offered to the head, and in some categories the logo is marked as personal. A badge on a school's website means its head belongs to the conference. For full international membership there is a check - two people, two days - but no live external inspection is required.
What the badge means for this school. The school belongs to this network. That is not a quality inspection: a network is something a school joins, while an accreditation is something a school goes through. The entry is confirmed in the organisation's open directory.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →Exams and destinations from the school's official website
Exam results A Level 2019-2026: A* 37%, A*-A 69%, A*-B 87% of grades; in 2026, 47% of 94 graduates achieved three or more A-A* grades. IGCSE 2019-2026: 9-8 (A*) 63%, 9-7 (A*-A) 79%, 9-5 97%; in 2026, 230 A* grades. In the 2024 session 18 students earned 23 Outstanding Pearson Learner Awards, including four for the highest mark in the world.
Where leavers go: University of Cambridge · University of Oxford · London School of Economics (LSE) · University College London (UCL) · Imperial College London · King's College London · University of Edinburgh · University of St Andrews · Columbia University · Yale University · Princeton University · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
and others, 19 universities in the school's list in allIn 2025, 53% of graduates received offers from universities and programmes ranked in the global top 10 of the QS rankings, including five from Cambridge, seven from Imperial College London and twenty from UCL.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
✓Sports hall
✓Laboratories
✓Theatre or assembly hall
·Librarynot stated on the website
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
✓Boarding
Clubs and activities: British Biology Olympiad · UK Chemistry Olympiad · Maths Competitions · Music Band · The Musical · FIRST Lego League Challenge · European Space Agency CanSat Competition · Model UN · School Newspaper · School Without Borders · Football · Volleyball · Basketball · Wharton High School Investment Competition · SAT Prep · Delf/Dalf Exams Preparation · Pre-Med Club · Finance Club · AHS Book Club
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 that 33% of teachers hold PhDs or are PhD candidates and 62% graduated from top international universities; many are active researchers. The school invests in teachers' professional development. The team includes 11 university advisors.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
·CCTVnot stated on the website
✓Security staff
✓Access control
·Nurse or medical roomnot stated on the website
✓Counsellor
✓Child protection policy
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policy
The school publishes policies on safeguarding, anti-bullying, whistleblowing, safer recruitment, supervision, first aid and health and safety. A wellbeing team of mental health counsellors provides individual counselling, groups, crisis intervention and screening, confidentially and in line with Polish child protection law. The boarding house has 24-hour security and card-only access, and a school psychologist works with boarders.
Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)85 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 data85 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)100 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.
The score is counted from 8 of the 9 criteria.Only those with checkable data count: programmes and accreditations from official registers, the fee from a published price list. Where it says "scored on the median", the school has no data and the middle of the list is put in its place, so that a gap gives no advantage. Admissions, teaching staff and reviews come in as their data arrives.
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Warsaw, Poland · est. 2016 · Private