ORBIS is a private education complex in central Zlín: a kindergarten from age two, a primary school and a secondary school (a language-focused grammar school, information technology, and economics and business) leading to the Czech maturita. Until 1 September 2021 it was called Academic School Zlín; it then separated from Academic School in Uherské Hradiště and took the name ORBIS. Since 2024 the primary and secondary schools have been a Cambridge International School: the primary school runs Cambridge Primary and Cambridge Lower Secondary, and secondary students can continue with Cambridge IGCSE. Teaching follows the Czech curriculum, with English part of every day: classes have a Czech teacher and a native English speaker (CLIL), with up to 13 hours of English a week in primary. The school traces its secondary school back to the Baťa company school of 1925.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $1 847–5 541 a year
40 000–120 000 CZK
Programmes
Cambridge · Primary, Lower Secondary, IGCSE · National programme
Admits from
2 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Czech
Languages taught
English, Spanish, German
Class size
at most 16 pupils in a multilingual primary class, 20 in the grammar school
About the fees Fees for the 2026-2027 school year: kindergarten and primary school 120000 CZK per year (10000 per month) for the first child, 108000 for the second and 96000 for the third. Secondary school: Economics and Business and Information Technology 40000 CZK per year, grammar school 55000 CZK. Primary fees include textbooks, swimming, skating, a ski course, after-school care from 7:00 to 17:00 and insurance. Kindergarten meals cost 130 CZK per day; clubs cost from 1200 to 4000 CZK per semester.
Admissions The kindergarten admits children who have turned 2 by the start of the school year, and grade 1 admits after a school readiness assessment involving the school psychologist; both use the city's online registration and an in-person enrolment, and a multilingual class takes at most 16 children. The grammar school requires entrance exams in Czech and mathematics, after which new students take placement tests in foreign languages.
Stages and year groups Kindergarten: groups Skřítci, Včelky (younger, from age two) and Kamarádi (older, up to six), every day in Czech and English. Primary school: grades 1-9 with multilingual teaching in Czech and English, Cambridge Primary and Cambridge Lower Secondary, Cambridge English exams from A1 to B2. Secondary school: a four-year language-focused grammar school and the Information Technology and Economics and Business programmes, all ending with the Czech maturita; the grammar school is gradually expanding subjects taught in English and the Cambridge IGCSE programme.
Address nám. T. G. Masaryka 1279, 760 01 Zlín
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · Primary, Lower Secondary, IGCSE · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as a Cambridge centre (still under its former name, Academic School, Zlín: ORBIS split from it in 2021). A Czech school with English through CLIL and Cambridge programmes.
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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). 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.
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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 hallnot stated on the website
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
·Librarynot stated on the website
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field · Playground · Makerspace
Campus: The school is in central Zlín and the building is fully barrier-free. Students work with iPads and MacBooks, robotics, 3D printing and the humanoid robot ORBI; classrooms have interactive boards. There is a school canteen, an outdoor sports ground and a playground, and the kindergarten has a garden with a playground and an outdoor classroom. The Svah Zlín ski slope is nearby.
Clubs and activities: Tenis · 3D tisk · Hra na kytaru · Hra na klavír · Kroužek keramiky · Cambridge YLE Starters · Cambridge YLE Movers · Cambridge YLE Flyers · A2 Key for Schools · B1 Preliminary · B2 First for Schools
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
✓Teacher qualifications
·Number of teachersthe school does not say
✓Students per teacher or class sizein the key facts above
What the listings show: qualified native English speakers working alongside Czech teachers
The team includes Czech teachers and qualified native English-speaking teachers, plus Spanish and German teachers. The school counselling centre has a psychologist, a special educator and an educational counsellor (výchovný poradce).
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
✓CCTV
✓Security staff
✓Access control
·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 whole building is covered by CCTV, entry to the building and each floor is by chip, and visitor entry is controlled. Each floor has a reception desk monitoring movement. The school has a psychologist and a risk behaviour prevention specialist.
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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 data80 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data65 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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