← Back to the rankingKatolickie Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. św. Pawła z Tarsu
Warsaw, Poland · Private
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Katolickie Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. św. Pawła z Tarsu is a small private Catholic lyceum in Warsaw (Poezji Street, Wawer district) offering the IB Diploma Programme. According to the school's information on the 2023-2024 intake, the first year of the four-year lyceum has no profile: after the first year students choose extended subjects from Polish, a foreign language, mathematics, physics, computing, biology, chemistry, geography, civics and history in any combination. All students study English from grade 1 for 5 hours a week in groups by level; the second language is Spanish or German, with optional Latin. The IB class (grades 3-4) admits students after grade 2 of a lyceum, including those returning from abroad; the programme is taught in English, with Polish language and literature in Polish. The first-year class admits at most 18 students and the IB class at most 10.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · DP · National programme
Languages of instruction
Polish, English
Languages taught
Spanish, German, Latin
About the fees Tuition stated by the school without a year (on the page about the 2023-2024 intake): czesne of 900 PLN per month in the lyceum and 1400 PLN per month in the IB class. The school does not state how many monthly payments are due per year. There is no current fee schedule for 2025-2026 or 2026-2027 on the website.
Admissions Admission is individual. For the first year (after primary school) the school invites each candidate to a qualifying meeting: an interview, an essay on a free topic and a few mathematics problems in the presence of a teacher; the aim is to assess the student's potential regardless of grades. For the IB class (after grade 2 of a lyceum, not necessarily pre-IB, or after an equivalent class of a foreign school) candidates submit an application and a report, pass an English entrance exam (an essay and an interview with the IB English teacher), have an interview with the IB coordinator and, after a positive decision, take two competence exams (text analysis and essay in Polish, and mathematics). Very good English and at least good in mathematics are expected. The school explicitly invites both students educated in Poland and those returning from abroad to the IB class.
Stages and year groups A four-year liceum ogólnokształcące. The first year has no profile, with extended subjects chosen from grade 2; it ends with the Polish matura (świadectwo dojrzałości). The IB Diploma Programme class runs in grades 3-4 of the lyceum (the school calls it class I IB): Polish, English A and English B, mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics, history, geography, economics, business, Spanish. The IB class is taught in English. The information refers to the 2023-2024 intake.
Address ul. Poezji 19, 04-994 Warszawa
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · DP · authorised programmeThe school is listed in the IB register and runs the Diploma Programme. 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.
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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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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.
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