← Back to the rankingIPS International School of Wrocław
Wroclaw, Poland · est. 2011 · Private
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IPS International School of Wrocław is a private English-language international school from preschool to grade 12, founded in 2011. In preschool (from age 2.5) the school follows IB PYP standards, adding the Cambridge curriculum in the final year, and introduces the Polish curriculum and Polish as a Second Language. Primary and lower secondary (grades 1-8) combine the IB PYP framework with Cambridge Primary (grades 1-5) and Cambridge Lower Secondary (grades 6-8); at the end students sit Cambridge Checkpoint in English, Mathematics and Science and the Polish egzamin ósmoklasisty. Upper secondary (grades 9-12) offers Cambridge IGCSE in grades 9-10 and Cambridge A Level in grades 11-12; Polish language, history and geography of Poland remain in the curriculum, and students may choose to sit the Polish matura. The school says it has students of 32 nationalities and that 85% of its exam results are above the world average. It runs a music school with ABRSM exams.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $8 651–12 912 a year
3 350–5 000 PLN a month
The year is counted as ten payments: the school does not say how many payments it takes.
Programmes
IB · PYP · Cambridge · Primary, Lower Secondary, IGCSE, A-Level · National programme
Admits from
2.5 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
English
Languages taught
Polish, Spanish
Registration fee
≈ $207
800 PLN
About the fees Fees for 2026-2027, monthly czesne: preschool Pre-K1 and Pre-K2 3350 PLN, Kindergarten 3450 PLN, 11 payments a year; grades 1-5 3950 PLN, grades 6-8 4250 PLN, grades 9-10 4800 PLN, grades 11-12 5000 PLN, 10 payments a year. Fees cover classes, nursing and counselling, and in grades 1-4 morning and afternoon care. Meals, afternoon clubs, trips and an annual supplies fee depending on the stage are extra. University admissions guidance is sold as separate packages at 1000, 5000 and 10000 PLN.
Admissions Admission is through the online application form and the admissions office (separate contacts for preschool and grades 1-8 and for upper secondary). The form requires ID or passports of both parents, the student's recent school reports and vaccination details; the country of residence is requested. Upper secondary charges an 800 PLN application processing fee. Students whose first language is not English receive an English as a Second Language programme, and international students Polish as a Second Language; students of 32 nationalities attend. The website does not describe entrance tests or deadlines.
Stages and year groups Grades Pre-K1, Pre-K2, Kindergarten, 1-12. Preschool (Pre-K1, Pre-K2, Kindergarten, ages 2.5-6): IB PYP standards, with the Cambridge curriculum added in Kindergarten, the Polish curriculum and Polish as a Second Language. Grades 1-8: the IB PYP framework together with Cambridge Primary (grades 1-5) and Cambridge Lower Secondary (grades 6-8, English, Mathematics, Science, Global Perspectives, ICT, foreign languages, humanities); Cambridge Checkpoint exams (English, Mathematics, Science) and the egzamin ósmoklasisty. Grades 9-12: Cambridge IGCSE in grades 9-10 (subjects include Business Studies, Global Perspectives, Computer Science) and Cambridge A Level in grades 11-12, plus the IPQ; optionally the Polish matura, A Level Polish or a Polish as a Second Language certificate. Polish language, history and geography of Poland follow the Polish curriculum. Teaching is in English.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · PYP · authorised programmeCambridge · Primary, Lower Secondary, IGCSE, A-Level · authorised programmeThe school is listed in the IB register and runs the Primary Years Programme. The Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge Primary, Cambridge Lower Secondary, Cambridge IGCSE, AS and A Level.
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). 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.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →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: Primary (ages 5-11), Lower Secondary (ages 11-14), IGCSE (ages 14-16), A-Level (ages 16-18). Primary is the primary stage, ages 5 to 11: English, mathematics and science to Cambridge syllabuses. At the end of the stage a school may run the optional Checkpoint test, which is marked in Cambridge. Lower Secondary is the middle stage, ages 11 to 14, with the same optional Checkpoint test at the end. 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 →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
Exam results The school says that 85% of its exam results are above the world average; it does not publish IGCSE, A Level, Checkpoint, egzamin ósmoklasisty or matura results by year.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
✓Sports hall
✓Laboratories
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Art studio · Playground
Clubs and activities: IPS Firebirds · MUN Club · IPS Choir · Chess · Mental Maths · Knowledge Bowl (quiz competition) · Art & Design Club · Digital Media Club · IPS Newspaper · Coding · Robotics · STEM · Spanish · IPS Music School
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 home page mentions 100 experienced educators from around the world; the team page names 18 leaders: the founder, the principals of the preschool, primary and upper secondary schools, their deputies and heads of departments. The school describes its staff recruitment as thorough.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
·CCTVnot stated on the website
·Security staffnot stated on the website
✓Access control
✓Nurse or medical room
✓Counsellor
✓Child protection policy
✓Staff training
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The school follows Polish child protection regulations and its own internal policies and trains staff regularly. Campuses have strict access control, continuous monitoring and colour-coded community identification; internet content is filtered. The Student Support Team of counsellors, psychologists, special education teachers and speech therapists provides dyslexia screening, well-being and early depression checks, and individual education plans.
Reviews
No reviews yet. The community rating counts towards the score once a school has five verified reviews - until then we do not show a zero, so as not to mislead.
Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)97 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%)90 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data75 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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