← Back to the rankingMiędzynarodowe Szkoły Paderewski w Lublinie
Lublin, Poland · est. 1993 · Private
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Międzynarodowe Szkoły Paderewski are two private schools in Lublin under one name: the Międzynarodowa Szkoła Podstawowa Paderewski (grades 1-8) and the Międzynarodowe Liceum Ogólnokształcące Paderewski (a four-year secondary school). The liceum opened in 1993 as the first private secondary school in the city and in 1999 became the sixth school in Poland authorised for the IB Diploma Programme; its lower secondary school became the first in Poland authorised for the MYP in 2003, and the primary school has had its own building since 2010 and has offered the PYP since 2019. The schools describe themselves as one of five in Poland with the full IB continuum. Teaching follows the Polish national curriculum with the egzamin ósmoklasisty and the matura: PYP in grades 1-5, MYP from grade 6 of primary school to year 2 of the liceum, Diploma Programme in years 3-4 of the liceum. Alongside, since 2019 the liceum has bilingual classes leading to the Polish matura. The primary school teaches in Polish with extended English (4-6 hours a week, CLIL elements from grade 1); MYP lessons are in Polish with a gradual move to English, most Diploma Programme lessons are in English; bilingual classes use Polish and English. The schools are secular, with a choice between religion and ethics.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $3 873–5 423 a year
1 500–2 100 PLN a month
The year is counted as ten payments: the school does not say how many payments it takes.
Programmes
IB · PYP, MYP, DP · National programme
Languages of instruction
Polish, English
Languages taught
German, Spanish, French, Latin, Russian
Registration fee
≈ $207
800 PLN
About the fees Fees for 2026-2027 are paid monthly, 12 months a year. Primary school: 1650 PLN per month; annual PYP fee 800 PLN (grades 1-4), MYP fee 800 PLN in grade 5 and 1000 PLN in grades 6-8. Liceum: Polish bilingual programme 1500 PLN per month; international IB programme 1850 PLN per month, rising by 250 PLN from year 3 (Diploma Programme) to 2100 PLN. One-off scholarships are available for high grades and olympiad results.
Admissions Admission to grade 1 of the primary school is by points (maximum 100): a 90-minute group session with a teacher and a 30-minute individual meeting with a psychologist, both in Polish; they assess school readiness against the Polish pre-school curriculum and understanding of simple English. With equal results, siblings of pupils in the Paderewski schools have priority; the order of applications does not count. For higher primary grades there are entrance tests in Polish, mathematics and English based on the Polish curriculum (at least 75% in each) and an interview with a psychologist. Admission to the liceum after grade 8 is by ranking based on egzamin ósmoklasisty results and certificate grades; candidates choose the Polish bilingual or the international programme. Candidates who have studied and live abroad have a separate admissions procedure in English: for years 1-2 of the liceum (MYP), review of previous school documents and entrance exams in mathematics and English; for year 3 (Diploma Programme), exams in English (at least 75%), mathematics (at least 65%) and higher level subjects (at least 75%) and an online interview; the committee decides on foreign candidates individually.
Stages and year groups Grades 1-8 szkoła podstawowa, 1-4 liceum. Polish national curriculum (podstawa programowa) with the egzamin ósmoklasisty in grade 8 and the matura in the liceum. IB: PYP in the primary school (since 2019, grades 1-5), MYP from grade 6 of primary to year 2 of the liceum (elements from grade 5; Personal Project in year 2 of the liceum, optional MYP e-Assessment exams), Diploma Programme in years 3-4 of the liceum (since 1999) leading to the IB Diploma. The second liceum track is bilingual classes (oddziały dwujęzyczne) since 2019: Polish matura with English at bilingual level, with medical, business, polytechnic and humanities profiles. The website shows no pre-school section: admission starts in grade 1.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · PYP, MYP, DP · authorised programmePASCH · takes part in the programmeThe school is listed in the IB register and runs the Primary Years, Middle Years and Diploma programmes. The school is part of the PASCH network.
school is in an official registryconfirmed by a school document, by membership or by taking part in a networkclaimed by the school, no confirmation, not counted in the scoreGuide to all organisations → What stands behind each entry
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.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →PASCHSchools: Partners for the Future, an initiative of the German foreign ministry
More than two thousand schools in about 120 countries. A school cannot apply for itself: participants are chosen by German agencies in agreement with the embassy. Very different schools sit under one mark - full German schools abroad, and ordinary national schools that simply teach German well.
What the badge means for this school. The school belongs to a German support programme. By itself the mark means neither a German curriculum nor the right to award a German certificate: of the two thousand PASCH schools, about seventeen hundred hold no such right. Look for a ZfA status next to it - that is the one that is about this. The entry is confirmed in the organisation's open directory.
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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 reports a 100% pass rate in the IB and Polish matura. IB Diploma 2026, school averages against world averages: Biology HL 6.14 (world 4.48), Geography HL 6.38 (5.29), English B HL 6.13 (5.61), History Europe HL 5.6 (4.96), Psychology SL 5.76 (4.47), Spanish B HL 6.0 (5.23), Physics HL 5.4 (4.96). Polish matura 2026: first place in Lublin in extended physics (85%), geography (81%) and history (85%).
Where leavers go: University of Oxford · Imperial College London · University College London (UCL) · London School of Economics (LSE) · King's College London · University of Edinburgh · University of Warwick · University of Chicago · University of Amsterdam · University of Warsaw (UW) · Jagiellonian University (UJ) · Warsaw University of Technology (PW)
and others, 15 universities in the school's list in allThe liceum publishes a map and list of universities entered by graduates of 2013-2025: medicine (200 graduates), technical fields (124), economics and management (140), law (60), arts (33), in Poland and abroad. The liceum is a registered UCAS centre and has an academic counsellor.
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
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: Two neighbouring schools on one campus on ul. Symfoniczna in Lublin: the secondary school building completed in 1998-1999, a second building where the primary school has operated since 2010, and the Centrum Sportu Akademos, opened in 2013: one of the largest school sports halls in the city, with seating for more than 300, a climbing wall, a martial arts hall and smaller halls. All secondary PE lessons take place there. Lunches are cooked on site; there is a canteen with its own kitchen, a snack shop and a student lounge in the secondary school. The primary school runs after-school care in three age groups. It is a day school with no boarding.
Clubs and activities: Philosophy Olympiad Club · Chemistry Olympiad Club · Biology Olympiad Club · English Olympiad Club · Spanish Olympiad Club · German Olympiad Club · Economics Olympiad Club · Architecture Olympiad Club · Latin Language · Theatre Classes · Journalism and Radio Classes · Akademos High School Choir · School Sports Club: Volleyball · Amnesty International · Eco School · Reading Club
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 staff pages of the liceum and the primary school name 106 people (56 at the liceum, 65 at the primary school, some teach in both), with their subjects and roles; liceum teachers include PhD holders and university lecturers, Polish and IB matura examiners, an IB workshop leader and native English speakers.
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 policy
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The primary school has CCTV, a reception desk and an electronic pupil pick-up system; psychologists are assigned to each stage. The liceum has had a full-time psychologist since it opened. The schools' operator publishes a child protection policy with rules on safe staff-child and child-child relations, protection of images and data, and safe internet use.
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 data80 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data85 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data60 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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