← Back to the rankingII Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Mieszka I w Szczecinie
Szczecin, Poland · est. 1946 · State
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II Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Mieszka I, known locally as Pobożniak, is a free public secondary school in central Szczecin, founded in 1946 in the building of the former German St Mary's gymnasium; in October 2026 the school celebrates its 80th anniversary. Since 2010 it has run international baccalaureate classes: every intake includes a class 1 IB that follows the IB MYP in years 1-2 (some subjects in English, the Personal Project) alongside the Polish curriculum, and the IB Diploma Programme in years 3-4, where all subjects except Polish and German are taught in English. Besides the IB class, the school recruits language and mathematics (extended English and German), social and legal studies, mathematics and physics, mathematics and chemistry, and biology and chemistry classes. The school is strong in chemistry and foreign languages, belongs to the PASCH network, and runs StetiMUN Model United Nations conferences, TEDxMieszko and Scandinavian Days.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · MYP, DP · National programme
Languages of instruction
Polish, English
About the fees Tuition is free: this is a public school. The Parents' Council collects a contribution of 250 PLN a year (2025-2026); according to the council it funds extra classes, olympiad workshops, clubs, the choir and sport. The school has a separate account for IB-related payments; amounts are not given on the website.
Admissions Year 1 admits primary school graduates through Szczecin's city-wide electronic admissions system under the national Polish rules. For class 1 IB applications ran from 7 to 22 May 2026; a written English test (reading, listening, vocabulary, grammar) was held on 25 May, and an oral test in the form of an English conversation, including questions about the IB programme, between 26 May and 3 June; candidates who miss either part are removed from the list. Laureates and finalists of English olympiads and superintendent competitions are exempt and receive the maximum score. Copies of the certificate and eighth-grade exam results are then submitted by 7 July, and admission lists are published in mid-July. The school does not write separately about admitting foreign students.
Stages and year groups A four-year general secondary school (liceum ogólnokształcące) with the Polish curriculum and the matura. Profiles for 2026-2027: 1b language and mathematics, 1d social and legal studies (under the patronage of the University of Szczecin), 1f mathematics and physics, 1g mathematics and chemistry, 1h biology and chemistry, and class 1 IB. IB class: years 1-2 are the IB MYP together with the Polish curriculum (Polish, English, German, history, civics, geography, biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, computer science and others), Service as Action, the Personal Project in English and TOK workshops; years 3-4 are the IB Diploma Programme in English, except Polish and German. DP subjects: group 1 - Polish, group 2 - English, German, group 3 - history, geography, economics, group 4 - biology, chemistry, physics, computer science, group 5 - mathematics, group 6 - Visual Arts or a second subject from groups 2-4; other subjects can be taken online for a fee through Pamoja Education. IB exams are in May.
Address ul. Henryka Pobożnego 2, 70-507 Szczecin
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · MYP, DP · authorised programmePASCH · takes part in the programmeThe school is listed in the IB register and runs the Middle Years and Diploma programmes. The IB track runs in the international classes of a Polish liceum: the Diploma in grades 3-4, alongside the Polish curriculum leading to the matura. The school is part of the PASCH network.
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: MYP (ages 11-16), DP (ages 16-19). MYP is the middle stage, ages 11 to 16. There are no exams here either; at the end an optional electronic assessment of pupils' work is possible. 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 →PASCHSchools: Partners for the Future, an initiative of the German foreign ministry
More than two thousand schools in about 120 countries. A school cannot apply for itself: participants are chosen by German agencies in agreement with the embassy. Very different schools sit under one mark - full German schools abroad, and ordinary national schools that simply teach German well.
What the badge means for this school. The school belongs to a German support programme. By itself the mark means neither a German curriculum nor the right to award a German certificate: of the two thousand PASCH schools, about seventeen hundred hold no such right. Look for a ZfA status next to it - that is the one that is about this. The entry is confirmed in the organisation's open directory.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →National programme
The state school programme of the country the school stands in: it is set by that country's ministry of education, which also licenses the school and awards the leaving certificate. That certificate is used for entry to local universities, and abroad it is matched to the local one.
What this means for this school. This entry does not count towards the score, and that is deliberate. Every lawful school in a country works to the national programme, so on its own it tells one school apart from no other - unlike the French, German or Russian programmes, which are carried abroad and confirmed by the register of their organisation. We show it because a parent needs to know what programme their child is taught and what certificate the child will get. Counting it would lift the whole ranking at once and still tell nobody apart.
Exams and destinations from the school's official website
Average IB score
33 (world average 30.88)
Exam results IB Diploma 2023: 60 candidates, school average 33 against a world average of 30, highest 42. 2022: 43 candidates, average 35 against 32 worldwide, highest 45. 2021: average 33, highest 44, 13 students with 40 points or more; 2020: average 34, highest 43; 2019: average 33, highest 44.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
✓Sports hall
✓Laboratories
✓Theatre or assembly hall
✓Library
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: The historic former gymnasium building on ul. Henryka Pobożnego, home to the school since 1946, with a separate wing on ul. Jarowita adapted for IB classes in 2011; an assembly hall, a gym, chemistry, physics, geography and biology rooms, a school library and a nurse's office.
Clubs and activities: StetiMUN · TEDxMieszko · ODYN Scandinavian Days · Exempt from Theory · Choir · Volunteering · Student Council
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 sizenot stated
The leadership and teachers page names the head, three deputy heads, the MYP and DP coordinators, subject teachers, librarians, the pedagogue and the psychologist.
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 room
✓Counsellor
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The school has a school pedagogue, a special educator and a psychologist with office hours in separate offices; the nurse is available every weekday from 8:00 to 15:35.
Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)88 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 data65 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.
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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