← Back to the rankingSAIL International School
Szczecin, Poland · est. 2021 · Private
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SAIL International School is a private international school in Szczecin for children from age 3 to the end of upper secondary: a kindergarten, a primary school (registered by the city in 2021) and a lyceum (since 2022). It is run by the non-profit SAIL Foundation, founded in 2004 and focused on formal school education since 2021. It is a Cambridge International School: the Polish curriculum is combined with Cambridge Primary in school grades 1-6, Cambridge Lower Secondary in grades 7-9, IGCSE in lyceum grades 1-2 and AS and A Level or the Cambridge AICE Diploma in grades 3-4. The school numbers grades the Cambridge way: the zero year is P1, Polish primary grade 8 is P9, and lyceum grades are H1-H4. English is the main language of lessons and daily life; under the statute the international sections are taught in English, while Polish citizens study Polish language, history and geography of Poland in Polish. Students come from nearly 30 nationalities and teachers from five continents; the school aims for no more than half of a class to come from one country. The school is an IB candidate school for the Diploma Programme.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · Primary, Lower Secondary, IGCSE, A-Level · National programme
Admits from
3 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
English, Polish
Languages taught
German, Ukrainian
Class size
In the kindergarten and zero year about 16 children, never more than 20; under the statute up to 16 students in grades 1-3 and up to 20 in grades 4-8.
About the fees The school does not publish tuition amounts on its website; tuition is set in the learning contract and covers all core classes, day care, some extracurricular activities and standard pedagogical and psychological support from September to June. Separately the school lists current fees without naming the school year: a registration fee and an annual teaching resources fee. The SAIL Foundation may grant partial scholarships in specific cases and make special agreements with partner organisations.
Admissions The school admits children from Poland and abroad, including those coming from foreign school systems and homeschooling: at the first contact the admissions team asks about the child's age and grade, where they studied, their mother tongue and level of English. For younger children the school prefers to avoid formal tests: the child is invited for one to three trial days in a regular class; if that is not possible, an in-person or online meeting with the management is arranged. After a successful trial the family completes a form and signs a one-year learning contract that renews automatically (documents are signed by both parents); the place is secured once the registration fee is paid. International students receive a two-year introductory Polish course, and in the lyceum Polish as a foreign language; students below B2 in English get extra English lessons. Progression to SAIL High School does not depend on the egzamin ósmoklasisty. The kindergarten usually admits children from age 3.
Stages and year groups Kindergarten: a younger group aged 3-4 and an older group aged 4-5. The zero year (P1, ages 5-6) is already the first primary year in Cambridge terms. Szkoła podstawowa: P2-P4 are Polish early school education with one form teacher plus Cambridge Primary; P5-P9 are subject-based, Cambridge Lower Secondary with optional Checkpoint tests and the subject Global Perspectives; ending with the egzamin ósmoklasisty, relevant mainly for those staying in the Polish system. Liceum: the Polish core curriculum plus H1-H2 Cambridge IGCSE (more than 70 subject exams to choose from, with the option of the Cambridge ICE certificate), H3-H4 Cambridge AS and A Level (more than 55 subjects) or the Cambridge AICE Diploma with Global Perspectives & Research; medical and green energy pathways with Pomorski Uniwersytet Medyczny and Politechnika Morska. In H4 students may sit Cambridge exams or the Polish matura, neither being compulsory. The school is an IB candidate for the Diploma Programme.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · Primary, Lower Secondary, IGCSE, A-Level · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge Primary, Cambridge Lower Secondary, Cambridge IGCSE, AS and A Level. For the IB Diploma the school is a candidate.
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
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), A-Level (ages 16-18). 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. A-Level is the senior years, and their results are what British and many other universities admit on.
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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
✓Laboratories
·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 · Art studio · Playground · Makerspace
Clubs and activities: LEGO Robotics · Pottery · Dance · Piano · Computer Club · Soccer · Art · Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
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
Teachers come from five continents; in the lower grades most lessons are taught by one form teacher, who usually stays with the class for all three years; in upper grades by subject teachers. Under the statute teachers of compulsory subjects hold the qualifications required in state schools.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
·CCTVnot stated on the website
·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 Child Protection Standards with intervention procedures, prevention and rules for helping a child; standard pedagogical and psychological support is included in tuition. A points-based behaviour grading system applies in upper grades.
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 data65 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 Value for money (6%) scored at the median89 "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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