← Back to the rankingWilly-Brandt-Schule in Warschau
Warsaw, Poland · est. 1978 · Private
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The Willy-Brandt-Schule in Warsaw is a German-Polish encounter school (Deutsch-Polnische Begegnungsschule) founded in 1978 as the embassy school Deutsche Schule Warschau. Since 2005 it has operated under an intergovernmental agreement between Germany and Poland, and in 2008 the Polish authorities recognised it as a private school with the rights of a Polish public school (szkoła niepubliczna o uprawnieniach szkoły publicznej). Germany supports the school with seconded teachers and a subsidy, Poland with a per-pupil subsidy. The school now has more than 430 pupils and about 60 teachers, with the Deutscher Kindergarten for about 80 children attached. It takes children from grade 1 to grade 12 on German curricula (Baden-Württemberg) to the Deutsches Internationales Abitur, recognised by Germany and Poland. There are two tracks: a German-language track, where German children learn alongside Polish children and children from other countries, and a Polish-language international track, where literacy is taught in Polish and German is built up step by step up to the Abitur examination in German. Pupils of the Polish track must sit the matura in Polish and may take the matura in other subjects.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $8 243 a year
31 922.6 PLN
Programmes
German programme
Languages of instruction
German, Polish
Languages taught
English, French
Class size
no more than 25 pupils per class
Registration fee
≈ $516
2 000 PLN
About the fees Tuition (Schulgeld) under the fee regulations valid from the 2026-2027 school year is 31922,60 PLN per year, textbooks included. It can be paid at once or in 4 equal instalments: 15 September, 1 December, 1 March and 1 June; for mid-year entry 1/10 of the annual fee is charged for each remaining month until June. There is a 10% discount for the second and further children; families with a net income up to 104500 PLN per year (with two children at the school up to 132000 PLN) may apply for a reduction of up to 50% for no more than 3 years. Optional Catholic religion lessons in the international track cost 100 or 200 PLN per year.
Admissions The German-language track requires German sufficient to follow lessons. Grade 1 places in this track are allocated by school readiness, German skills, age in the year of entry, attendance at the school's kindergarten, siblings at the school and newly arrived families with a German-speaking background; admission to grade 1 for 2026-2027 took place from 2 to 4 March 2026. Joining the German track is possible at any time if places are free, with a maximum of 25 pupils per class; for entry to grade 9 or 10 non-native speakers need a B2 German certificate and a successful interview, and entry to grade 11 is usually only from the German school system or the German track of a school abroad. The international track does not require German: grade 1 admission includes an individual test, a group session with sports, manual and storytelling parts, and a committee decision with a reserve list. There is no right to a place; the school management decides. The German track explicitly welcomes children from other countries.
Stages and year groups Grades 1-12. Primary school (Grundschule) grades 1-4 on Baden-Württemberg plans with Polish topics; lower secondary (grades 5-9), with streaming after grade 5 into Hauptschule, Realschule and Gymnasium levels; the upper secondary Gymnasium phase (grades 10-12, twelve-year G8 course) with an introductory grade 10 and a qualification phase in grades 11-12. The leaving qualification is the Deutsches Internationales Abitur (DIAP); the first examination under its rules took place in the 2016-2017 school year. The Polish track (Internationale Abteilung) studies geography, history and Polish to Polish requirements and must sit the matura in Polish, with the option of matura in other subjects. Under Polish law the school combines a niepubliczna szkoła podstawowa and a liceum ogólnokształcące. The Deutscher Kindergarten has its own website, deutscherkindergarten.pl.
Address ul. św. Urszuli Ledóchowskiej 3, 02-972 Warszawa (Wilanów)
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
ZfA · accreditationWDA · part of the alliancePASCH · takes part in the programmeZfA lists the school among German schools abroad (Deutsche Auslandsschule). The school is a member of WDA. 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
ZfACentral Agency for German Schools Abroad
A German federal agency. It recognises a school as a German school abroad, funds it and grants the right to award the German leaving certificate. Quality is examined by a state inspection about once every six years, and schools that pass receive the mark of an excellent German school abroad.
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 →WDAWorld Association of German Schools Abroad
An association of the owners of German schools abroad: in essence an industry lobby and a service organisation. It runs no inspections. The condition of admission is a recognised German certificate, but that recognition is granted by the German state, not by WDA.
What the badge means for this school. The school belongs to an association of school owners. There is no inspection of its own behind it: the badge rests on a decision of the German state and adds nothing to it. The entry is confirmed in the organisation's open directory.
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 German school programme. Recognised German schools abroad award the Deutsches Internationales Abitur, the German leaving certificate used for entry to universities in Germany. Behind the recognition stands the federal agency ZfA.
What this means for this school. ZfA recognition comes at levels: a school that takes pupils through to the German leaving certificate is one thing, a school with the DSD language diploma, where German is taught as a subject, is another. Which level this school holds is not stated here.
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
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: The school occupies one building in Wilanów. The school library holds about 18000 items: books for children and teenagers in German, Polish, English and French, magazines, and space for homework and internet research. Canteen: the operator Katarzyna Matusiewicz Catering cooks 3 lunch menus on site daily, with lunch at 12:30 for grades 1-4 and at 13:20 for older pupils. Aftercare for grades 1-4 is open until 18:00, and a holiday programme runs in the first week of the autumn and Easter holidays. The school hosts a music academy with instrumental lessons and a football academy training by the German Football Association method. There are tablet rules for the primary school. No boarding.
Clubs and activities: Experiments · Painting Studio · Reading Circle · Unicycle Club · Happy Geniuses · SchELF Choir · The Forge of the Senses · Architecture · Swedish Language · Biathlon · Crafts · Lingua Latina Club · Theatre for Middle School · Biology Competition Preparation Club · Creative Writing Club · Nature Lovers Club · Discover Warsaw · German Conversation Club · MUN · Jugend musiziert (music competition) · WBS Music Academy · WBS Football Academy
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
✓Teacher qualifications
✓Number of teachers60
✓Students per teacher or class sizein the key facts above
What the listings show: The school mentions native-speaker teachers seconded from Germany and highly qualified local teachers; Germany currently seconds and funds 9 teachers plus 1 teacher under a federal programme.
About 60 teachers and 20 educators. The staff list for the 2026-2027 school year names the teachers with their subjects. The head is a teacher seconded by Germany's Central Agency for Schools Abroad.
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 policy
The school has a school psychologist and a school social pedagogue with daily office hours; pupils elect two trusted teachers they can turn to with any problem. The school publishes child protection standards, an intervention concept for bullying and a list of anonymous free helplines. Aftercare children are handed over at the gate at set times; going home alone or collection by other people requires a written declaration.
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Academics and programmes (16%)72 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 data70 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data70 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data70 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.
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