Warsaw Montessori High School (WMHS) is a small private secondary school (Niepubliczne Liceum Ogólnokształcące) in Warszawa that combines Maria Montessori's educational philosophy with the IB Diploma Programme. Studies last four years: grades 1-2 follow the school's own Pre-IB programme, combining the Polish national curriculum with the IB Learner Profile, and grades 3-4 follow the IB Diploma Programme, which the school has offered since 2020. The language of instruction is English: the school states this directly for the Pre-IB stage, and the IB programme is taught in English. The preparatory stage offers extended English, creative writing, academic skills, Latin, visual arts and drama, standard or extended mathematics, and kitchen and carpentry workshops. In the IB DP students can take Polish Literature or English Language and Literature as a native language, as well as self-taught native Ukrainian, Russian or Spanish; foreign languages are English, French, German and Spanish, including from scratch. Students and teachers come from diverse backgrounds; many teachers hold doctorates.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $18 076–20 658 a year
7 000–8 000 PLN a month
The year is counted as ten payments: the school does not say how many payments it takes.
Programmes
IB · DP · Montessori · National programme
Languages of instruction
English
Languages taught
Polish, French, German, Spanish, Latin
Registration fee
≈ $194
750 PLN
About the fees Fees for the 2026-2027 school year (for contracts signed in 2025-2026): Pre-IB - 7000 PLN per month, 10 payments from August to May; with a 5% discount, two payments of 33250 PLN, or with a 10% discount, one payment of 63000 PLN. IB DP - 8000 PLN per month, 10 payments; two payments of 38000 PLN or one of 72000 PLN. The fee is paid in full for each school year, including the final grade 4.
Admissions Admission to Pre-IB (grades 1-2) and the IB DP (grade 3) is open all year; the main entrance exams are in March and supplementary ones in June, and new students are also accepted during the year under the same requirements. Candidates complete an application form (plus a subject choice form for the IB DP) and pay a 750 PLN fee. Pre-IB candidates take exams in English, mathematics and Polish (Polish only for native speakers) and an interview in English. IB DP candidates take English and mathematics and an interview in English, after which the school verifies the choice of higher level subjects through grades, an interview, an assignment or an exam. The application form asks for the native language.
Stages and year groups Liceum ogólnokształcące, 4 years. Grades 1-2 - the school's own Pre-IB programme (Pre-DP): the Polish national curriculum (podstawa programowa) together with the IB Learner Profile, taught in English. Grades 3-4 - IB Diploma Programme: Polish Literature and English Language and Literature, English B, French, German, Spanish (SL, HL, Ab Initio), Economics, Geography, History, Psychology, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics AA and AI, Visual Arts, plus CAS, TOK and the Extended Essay. Montessori pedagogy.
Address ul. Pytlasińskiego 13a, 00-777 Warszawa
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · DP · authorised programmeThe school is listed in the IB register and runs the Diploma Programme.
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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: DP (ages 16-19). 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.
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The pedagogy of Maria Montessori: a child chooses the activity, works at their own pace with special materials, and mixed-age groups are arranged so that older children teach the younger ones. It is used most often in the nursery and primary stages.
What this means for this school. The name Montessori belongs to nobody: any school may call itself a Montessori school, and there is no single body that checks this. There are associations that train teachers and recognise schools, but membership of them is voluntary, and our entry means exactly that the school describes itself this way. This pedagogy has no leaving certificate, so what to look at is what the school finishes with.
National programme
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
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Art studio · Makerspace
Campus: A small school at ul. Pytlasińskiego 13a in Mokotów. Besides lessons, the preparatory stage has regular kitchen and carpentry workshops, visual arts and drama, and place-based learning built on local knowledge and community responsibility. The school runs a series of lectures and meetings with figures from business, culture and the media, and community building trips. It is a day school.
Clubs and activities: Volunteer Club · Shaping The Minds of The Future · Cooking Workshops · Woodworking Workshops
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 school names its team: the head (PhD, also Extended Essay coordinator and history teacher), the IB DP coordinator (PhD, geography teacher), teachers of Polish, English, French, German, Spanish, mathematics, economics, chemistry, physics, visual arts, biology, civics, IT and PE, the school psychologist and the school counsellor; 9 teachers hold doctorates.
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 policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The school has a school psychologist and a school counsellor. It describes itself as a safe, intimate and inclusive community, denounces racism and xenophobia and follows an access and inclusion policy.
Reviews
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Academics and programmes (16%)82 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 data60 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 data70 "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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