Open Future International School is a private bilingual campus in Kraków: a nursery, a primary school and a liceum founded and owned by Anna and Karol Tomczyk. The school describes itself as the first in Małopolska certified for all three IB programmes: PYP in the nursery and primary school, MYP (candidate from September 2020, certified in June 2023) and the Diploma Programme in the liceum (authorised on 2 June 2023). Teaching is based on the Polish national curriculum (podstawa programowa); the liceum has public school rights with international classes: students take the Polish matura or the IB Diploma Programme in years 3-4. Teaching is bilingual: Polish and English are both languages of instruction, with 50% to 80% of curriculum content in English, while Polish language, history and geography of Poland are taught in Polish; in IB classes all courses except Polish and Spanish are taught in English. Spanish is the second foreign language in the liceum. Each nursery group has a Polish-speaking and an English-speaking teacher.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $7 747–10 587 a year
30 000–41 000 PLN
Programmes
IB · PYP, MYP, DP · National programme
Admits from
3 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Polish, English
About the fees Annual fees for 2026-2027. Nursery (middle group) 30000 PLN, zerówka 33000 PLN, primary school 40250 PLN, liceum 41000 PLN in year 1 and 40000 PLN in years 2-4. Families who consent to the use of their child's image in school materials get a 10% discount; sibling discounts are 9% for the second child, 18% for the third and 27% for the fourth and further; there are discounts for continuing at Open Future and for timely payment. Primary fees include textbooks, materials, day trips, after-school care for grades 1-4 and psychologist and pedagogue support; lunches (compulsory in grades 1-4), uniforms and residential trips are extra.
Admissions Enrolment in the nursery, school and liceum runs all year subject to places, in order of application; siblings have priority, and there is a waiting list if places are full. Steps: online form, a meeting with a school representative and a tour, then a contract. The nursery takes children aged 3-6, from 2.5 after a consultation and a readiness opinion; nursery children are guaranteed a place in the primary school. For grade 1 a paid school-readiness assessment is compulsory, with priority for the school's own nursery graduates. Liceum: application form and document check, an English assessment (at least B1+ or an FCE with the top grade; with a lower level conditional admission with an intensive course is possible), an interview with the liceum head and a meeting of parents with the school management. Pupils from abroad need a certificate or report on the child's grades and skills when enrolling.
Stages and year groups Polish national curriculum (podstawa programowa) with the egzamin ósmoklasisty and the matura, combined with the IB: PYP in the nursery and primary school, MYP - according to the programme page in grades 5-8, according to the accreditation page in grades 6-8 of primary and years 1-2 of the liceum (Phase 4-5), and the IB Diploma Programme in years 3-4 of the liceum. DP courses: Polish language and literature (including self-taught), English B, Spanish ab initio and Spanish B, history, psychology, geography, Business Management, biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics AA and AI, theatre and Visual Arts. Years 1-2 of the liceum have introductory courses in English (IB Essentials, academic writing and public speaking, community service). The liceum is a niepubliczne dwujęzyczne liceum ogólnokształcące with public school rights; students can take the Polish matura or the IB.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · PYP, MYP, DP · authorised programmeThe school is listed in the IB register and runs the Primary Years, Middle Years and Diploma programmes.
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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), MYP (ages 11-16), DP (ages 16-19). 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. 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.
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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
✓Laboratories
✓Theatre or assembly hall
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Art studio · Playground
Campus: Four buildings in Kraków. The nursery occupies the ground floor of a building on ul. Babińskiego (350 m², four groups, a kitchen with dining room, a speech therapist's room, with a playground and garden by the school next door). Lower primary (grades 1-4) is in a three-storey building on ul. Kwiecista of 1500 m²: IT and art rooms, a library, rooms for psychologists, pedagogues and speech therapists, gym and recreation halls, a dining room, a school theatre, music rooms and a playground. Upper primary (grades 5-8) is 500 m away on ul. Pawła z Krosna (1100 m², 13 classrooms, a science lab). The liceum is a 1400 m² building in the city centre on ul. Rejtana with a science lab, physics and computer rooms, a chill room and mechanical ventilation with heat recovery. After-school care for grades 1-4 from 7:30 to 17:30. It is a day school with no boarding.
Clubs and activities: Swimming Pool · Taekwondo · Programming and Robotics · Dance · Ceramics · Metrology Academy · Chess · Chemical World · Freestyle Football · Drawing
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 school publishes profiles of 75 staff with their education and experience: subject teachers, English-speaking nursery assistants, PYP, MYP, DP and CAS coordinators, pedagogues, psychologists, speech therapists and librarians; teachers include native English and Spanish speakers.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
✓CCTV
·Security staffnot stated on the website
·Access controlnot stated on the website
·Nurse or medical roomnot stated on the website
✓Counsellor
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The liceum building has alarms and CCTV inside and outside, has been approved by the sanitary and fire authorities, and evacuation drills are held during the year. Psychologist and pedagogue support is included in the fees; the lower primary building has rooms for psychologists, pedagogues and speech therapists.
Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)95 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 data70 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data85 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.
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Krakow, Poland · Private