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Tirana, Albania · est. 2001 · Private
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A private full-day school in Tirana, founded in 2001 and named after US President Woodrow Wilson; it is licensed by the Albanian Ministry of Education as a non-public school. It stands in the park by Tirana's Artificial Lake. The school has five parts: nursery and kindergarten, a 9-year school, a gymnasium, a summer school and boarding. It follows the Albanian state curriculum and adds American Studies, sciences in English and entrepreneurship through Junior Achievement. Since August 2024 the school has been Cambridge centre AL022 and says its Cambridge programme runs from Primary in Grade 1 to A-Level in Grade 12. English is a school priority: Grades 1-9 have 5 hours of English a week, and the sciences (natural science, biology, chemistry, physics) are taught in English, so each student has 2-3 hours a day in English; the other pages for parents and students are written in Albanian. The school does not name other foreign languages. Gymnasium students most often choose economics, chemistry and the arts. Boarding is available for children from outside Tirana and for scholarship students from disadvantaged families.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · Primary, A-Level
Admits from
a few months · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Albanian, English
Admissions Families can register through an interest form on the website. For the 2026-2027 school year the school holds a scholarship competition open to all students completing Grades 3-12. Boarding takes children who do not live in Tirana and children from disadvantaged groups whom the school educates on its own scholarships. The school promises particular attention to children with special needs and to those arriving from abroad or from other districts, so that they settle in quickly. The school does not write directly about foreign students.
Stages and year groups Grades Çerdhe, Kopsht, Grade 1 - Grade 12. Nursery is for children aged 0 to 3, kindergarten has a group for ages 3-4, a group for ages 4-5 and a pre-school group for ages 5-6, from 8:00 to 16:00. The 9-year school covers Grades 1-9 in a separate building, and the lower grades are taught by a class teacher and specialist teachers for drawing, sport, music, informatics and dance. The gymnasium covers Grades 10-12. The Cambridge programme, the school says, runs from Primary in Grade 1 to A-Level in Grade 12.
Address Parku Kombëtar, Liqeni Artificial i Tiranës, Tiranë
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · Primary, A-Level · authorised programmeschool 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), 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. 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 →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 pool
✓Sports hall
✓Laboratories
✓Theatre or assembly hall
✓Library
✓Catering
✓School transport
✓Boarding
Also on site: Sports ground or field · Playground
Campus: The school stands in the National Park by Tirana's Artificial Lake. The 9-year school has its own building with laboratories for chemistry, physics, technology, music, art and English. Since 2016 the gymnasium has new classrooms and laboratories for physics, chemistry, technology, informatics and American Studies. There is a cinema-theatre, an amphitheatre, a gym, five sports grounds for basketball and football, a semi-Olympic swimming pool and a playground. Lunch is cooked daily by the school's own kitchen. Boarding has study rooms, a dining room and a library. Transport is provided for children from outside Tirana.
Clubs and activities: Cycling · Drama · Dance · Junior Achievement · School vegetable garden · English conversation · Reading with the National Library
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
Kindergarten staff are educators and assistants with higher education who pass a separate teaching test, along with teachers for children with special needs. In the lower grades some subjects are taught by specialist teachers; in mathematics, physics and chemistry teachers use differentiated work. The school publishes a list of its teaching staff by name and position.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
·CCTVnot stated on the website
✓Security staff
·Access controlnot stated on the website
✓Nurse or medical room
✓Counsellor
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
Boarding has a nurse, a doctor, a psychologist, boarding supervisors, a security system and guards 24 hours a day. The gymnasium has a first-aid medical service. The school psychologist follows kindergarten children step by step and runs the project "Jam edhe unë" with talks on violence, drugs and alcohol.
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