← Back to the rankingMiędzykulturowa Szkoła Podstawowa „Otwarty Świat” im. F. Chopina (World Around Intercultural Primary School)
Krakow, Poland · est. 2016 · Private
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Międzykulturowa Szkoła Podstawowa «Otwarty Świat» named after Fryderyk Chopin (World Around Intercultural Primary School) is a private eight-year primary school in central Kraków with public-school rights (szkoła niepubliczna o uprawnieniach szkoły publicznej), opened in 2016. Compulsory lessons are in Polish and English: in the international classes English, mathematics and science are taught in English on Pearson Edexcel iPrimary (grades 1-6) and iLower Secondary (grades 6-8) programmes, and the rest follows the Polish core curriculum. Pupils sit the egzamin ósmoklasisty and, optionally, Pearson Edexcel international exams in English, science and mathematics at the end of grade 6 and after grade 8. Under the statute classes generally have no more than 20 pupils. The school highlights rankings: in the WaszaEdukacja.pl 2025 ranking it is third among Kraków primary schools and 36th of 7971 schools in Poland; three of its pupils received Pearson awards for the best results in Poland and Europe in the 2023-2024 series.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $9 813 a year
3 800 PLN a month
The year is counted as ten payments: the school does not say how many payments it takes.
Programmes
Pearson Edexcel · National programme
Languages of instruction
English, Polish
Languages taught
French, German, Spanish
Class size
generally no more than 20 pupils per class
Registration fee
≈ $1 240
4 800 PLN
About the fees Fees for new pupils from 1 September 2026 are 3800 PLN per month; tuition (czesne) is paid for 12 months a year by the 10th of each month. The registration fee is 4800 PLN, a quarter of which counts towards the first tuition payment. Some clubs are included in tuition, others are paid separately.
Admissions Enrolment continues while places remain. Admission includes a meeting of the parents with the head, for grade 1 a meeting of the child and parents with the school psychologist to assess school readiness, and signing the contract. Under the statute grade 1 admits children who completed the compulsory pre-school year or hold a certificate from a kindergarten or school abroad; higher grades admit on the report from the previous school, including a school abroad; the pupil makes up curriculum differences, and the school may set a classification exam. The school teaches Polish as a foreign language to foreign pupils, and the staff includes a teacher of Polish for foreigners.
Stages and year groups Grades 1-8. Szkoła podstawowa, grades 1-8: the Polish core curriculum with extra foreign-language hours, and international classes on Pearson Edexcel programmes - iPrimary (grades 1-6 on the website, 2-6 in the statute) and iLower Secondary (grades 6-8) in three subjects: English, Science, Maths. Pupils may take Pearson Edexcel international exams twice - in May or June at the end of grade 6 and in October after grade 8, in chosen subjects and optionally. The school is accredited by Pearson Edexcel as an examination centre for iPrimary, iLower Secondary and International GCSE. At the end of grade 8 there is the compulsory egzamin ósmoklasisty, with state certificates. The statute allows a bilingual class from grade 7.
Address ul. Batorego 1, 31-132 Kraków
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Pearson · authorised programmeThe Pearson register names the school as its centre: it teaches Pearson Edexcel International Primary and Lower Secondary in English, mathematics and science, with the rest on the Polish curriculum.
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PearsonPearson Edexcel, a British exam board
It gives a school approved centre status: that means Pearson exams can be sat in the school itself. What is checked is the premises, the equipment, the secure storage of papers and the presence of trained invigilators.
What the badge means for this school. The school can run Pearson exams on its own premises. The status says nothing about teaching, about results or about the school itself: any school able to run an exam securely holds it. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it. Which Pearson qualifications this school is approved for is not stated here.
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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
Exam results The school publishes awards rather than average scores: three pupils received the Outstanding Pearson Learner Award for the 2023-2024 series - the highest mark in Poland in mathematics and in English and the highest in Europe in science. Pupils have been laureates and finalists of the Małopolska English competition and finalists of olympiads in English, Polish literature and history. In the WaszaEdukacja.pl 2025 ranking the school is third in Kraków and 36th of 7971 schools in Poland; in the 2022 egzamin ósmoklasisty, according to the school, its pupils took second place in Kraków.
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
Campus: The school is in central Kraków; under its statute its sites are ul. Sobieskiego 3, Batorego 1 and Karmelicka 45, and the contact page gives ul. Batorego 1 for grades 1-8. Pupils have lunch in the canteen of the neighbouring school round the corner, at 19 PLN per meal. There are computer rooms with a separate workstation and internet for every child, classrooms for the youngest with furniture, games and teaching aids, and aftercare (świetlica). The staff includes swimming teachers. The school organises outings to theatres, museums and cinemas, ski camps, exchanges and study trips abroad. No boarding.
Clubs and activities: Art Club · Ceramics · Robotowo · Chess · Roller Skating · Bravissimo (Bravissimo) · Brain Gym · Science Club · Kangaroo Mathematics Competition · Świetlik Natural Science Competition
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: The school says it employs experienced Polish teachers and native English-speaking teachers; the upper grades are taught by staff of the former private Prywatne Gimnazjum Akademickie nr 6, many of them holding doctorates.
The staff page names teachers and staff with their subjects: Polish, English, Polish for foreigners, Spanish, French, mathematics, sciences, history, geography, PE and swimming, art, music, religion and ethics, plus assistant teachers, a speech therapist and psychologists.
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 policy
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The school has a school psychologist and a crisis psychologist, a special-needs pedagogue and regular psychologist consultations. The statute provides for CCTV, first-aid kits and safety rules; the school publishes child protection standards and forms for a child going home alone. The school takes part in the three-year «Education with Empathy» project on inclusive education.
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%)60 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 data75 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.
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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