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Vilnius, Lithuania · Private
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The British School of Vilnius is the only school of the three Baltic countries with British state BSO (British Schools Overseas) accreditation, and an accredited COBIS member. It follows the British curriculum entirely in English, across Early Years, Primary, Secondary and Sixth Form stages with A-Level examinations. It is governed by The Schools Trust (TST), a UK non-profit organisation running a network of schools worldwide. Its Forest Campus, 20 minutes from central Vilnius, was built to high environmental standards and includes a swimming pool, a sports hall and modern laboratories. The BSO inspection rated the curriculum as "outstanding," pastoral care and premises also as "outstanding," and teaching and leadership as "good, with outstanding features."
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level
Languages of instruction
English
Admissions Teaching is entirely in English, and children over 10 with limited English receive support only in exceptional cases. The school states no citizenship restriction and admits children of many nationalities. Admission runs through an online application, academic records (from age 4), and entrance assessment, on campus or remotely for international applicants; the outcome may be unconditional acceptance, conditional acceptance pending an in-person assessment, or a requirement to complete testing. Enrollment is possible throughout the school year.
Stages and year groups Grades Early Years - Primary - Secondary - Sixth Form (A-Levels).. A fully British programme with A-Level and GCSE examinations, taught in English; the Primary page separately states this stage's age range as 5 to 11.
Address Miškadvario g. 6, LT-10243 Vilnius
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · authorised programmeBSO · accreditationCOBIS · accreditationschool 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: IGCSE (ages 14-16), A-Level (ages 16-18). 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.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →BSOBritish government inspection of schools overseas
A scheme of the UK Department for Education: a school abroad is inspected against the standards for independent schools in England, including safeguarding and the standards for boarding. The inspections are done by independent inspectorates approved by the department, and the inspectorates themselves are monitored annually by Ofsted. The reports are published in full on the government website.
What the badge means for this school. The school has been through this organisation's accreditation. It was judged as a whole: governance, safeguarding, staff, premises, teaching. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →COBISCouncil of British International Schools
An association of British schools abroad with a quality inspection of its own. It has nine membership categories, and the word "accredited" appears in seven of them, although COBIS does its own inspection in one: in the rest it recognises an accreditation granted by somebody else.
What the badge means for this school. The school has been through this organisation's accreditation. It was judged as a whole: governance, safeguarding, staff, premises, teaching. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →Exams and destinations from the school's official website
Exam results The BSO inspection rated the curriculum as "outstanding" and teaching quality as "good, with many outstanding lessons"; no numeric A-Level or GCSE results appear on the pages reviewed.
Facilities from the school's official website
✓Swimming pool
✓Sports hall
✓Laboratories
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field · Playground
Campus: The Forest Campus, 20 minutes from central Vilnius: a 25m 4-lane swimming pool, a multifunctional sports hall, a football pitch, a 100m running track, modern laboratories, and a kitchen and canteen.
Clubs and activities: Duke of Edinburgh's Award
Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their qualifications.
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
·Counsellornot stated on the website
✓Child protection policy
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
All safety documents, including child protection, are held on a separate school policies portal; the BSO inspection separately rated pastoral care and student welfare provision as "outstanding."
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%)85 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 data60 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)95 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data85 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data61 Value for money (6%) scored at the median83 "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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