← Back to the rankingNiepubliczna Szkoła Podstawowa nr 97 w Warszawie
Warsaw, Poland · Private
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Niepubliczna Szkoła Podstawowa nr 97 is a private primary school (grades 1-8) in Górny Mokotów, Warsaw; it says it has been operating for more than 30 years. In grades 1-5 the school runs the IB PYP together with the Polish curriculum (podstawa programowa), and in grade 8 students sit the egzamin ósmoklasisty. Teaching is bilingual: core subjects are in Polish, but from grade 1 to 8 some lessons are taught in English: in the lower grades bilingual blocks co-taught by the class teacher and an English teacher, plus science and maths in English; in the upper grades English Literacy, English Health and English Culture; English takes 5-7 hours a week in total. Spanish or German is taught as a second foreign language. Classes have no more than 18 children. From grade 1 the timetable includes theatre, swimming and tennis. Grades 1-3 receive descriptive assessment, from grade 4 marks. The school employs a pedagogue, several psychologists, a speech therapist and special needs teachers.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · PYP · National programme
Languages of instruction
Polish, English
Languages taught
Spanish, German
Class size
no more than 18 students per class, up to 20 in exceptional cases
About the fees The czesne is not published on the website: under the statute the fee, payment method and dates are set by an individual contract with the parents for the school year; a wpisowe is paid on admission, its amount also set by the contract.
Admissions Applications are made through the form on the website. Under the statute, admission is decided after the parents learn about the school's programme: for grade 1 the school prepares an opinion on the child's school readiness, for grades 2-8 on the child's cognitive, social and emotional development. In justified cases children are admitted in order of application. Priority goes to siblings of students and children of teachers. The final decision is made by the school's owner by signing a contract with the parents for the school year and receiving the wpisowe. The school is not an integration school, but it admits children with special educational needs if it can provide suitable conditions.
Stages and year groups Grades 1-8. Szkoła podstawowa grades 1-8: the Polish curriculum (podstawa programowa) with the egzamin ósmoklasisty at the end of grade 8; in grades 1-5 the IB Primary Years Programme (under the statute, oddziały międzynarodowe following the PYP). Bilingual teaching from grade 1 to 8: in grades 1-3, 5 hours of English, 2 hours of bilingual blocks, and one hour each of Science and Maths in English; in grade 4 Literacy replaces them; in grades 5-8 General English, English Literacy, English Health, English Culture. Students prepare for Cambridge English language exams (KET, PET, FCE) and the English olympiad. The statute allows an oddział przedszkolny, but the website does not mention one.
Address ul. Edwarda Abramowskiego 4, 02-659 Warszawa (Mokotów)
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · PYP · authorised programmeThe school is listed in the IB register and runs the Primary Years Programme.
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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: 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.
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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.
Exams and destinations from the school's official website
The school publishes nothing about where its leavers go: no share going on to university, no exam results, no list of universities.
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
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Playground
Campus: The school occupies a building on ul. Abramowskiego in Górny Mokotów. It has a gym, a playground, a library with children's and young adult books, a dining room (lunches come from a catering company, diets are taken into account, ordering via an app) and a school car park. Swimming and tennis are part of the timetable from grade 1. The school is open from 7:30 to 17:30, with after-school care (świetlica) after lessons. There is no boarding.
Clubs and activities: Needle and Thread · Ceramics · School Theatre · Vocal Ensemble · Dances · Computer Science Club · Subject Clubs
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
On the staff page the school names the head, two deputy heads (one is the PYP coordinator), class teachers and subject teachers, eight English teachers, Spanish and German teachers, three psychologists, pedagogues and special needs teachers, speech therapists and after-school care staff. Under the statute the school hires teachers of high professional and personal competence; some English lessons are taught by native speakers with teaching qualifications.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
·CCTVnot stated on the website
✓Security staff
·Access controlnot stated on the website
·Nurse or medical roomnot stated on the website
✓Counsellor
✓Child protection policy
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
Staff include a security guard, psychologists, a pedagogue and special needs teachers. The school has health and safety rules posted in every classroom, and rules for after-school care, the gym, the playground, the dining room and phone use (phones are not used during lessons and breaks); children are handed over to a teacher and collected with written authorisation. Evacuation drills are held. The school publishes a guide for parents on an open school and transgender students.
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)72 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data55 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data75 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data75 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 Value for money (6%) scored at the median64 "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 7 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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