← Back to homeZákladná škola Slobodného slovenského vysielača
Banská Bystrica, Slovakia · est. 1958 · State
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Základná škola Slobodného slovenského vysielača (ZŠ SSV) is a state primary school in Banská Bystrica with extended foreign-language teaching since 1978-1979. In September 2025 it became an IB World School for the MYP after three years of preparation. It has classes for pupils gifted in languages, classes with extended languages and international IB MYP classes: in Grade 5 one class is preparatory, and in Grades 6-8 one class per year follows the MYP. English starts in Grade 1 at 3 hours a week, a second language (German, French or Russian) in Grade 5, and Grades 8-9 have an extra English conversation hour with a foreign lecturer. The school has 438 pupils: 208 at the first stage and 230 at the second.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · MYP · National programme
Languages of instruction
Slovak, English
Languages taught
German, French, Russian
Students
438 pupils: 208 at the first stage and 230 at the second
About the fees The school is a state school. The school says nothing about tuition, including for the MYP, and does not state outright that study is free; the profile, IB, application and documents pages were read.
Admissions Entry to the international programme goes through a preparatory class: in Grade 4 pupils may take entrance exams, and the MYP itself starts in Grade 6. The application goes to the Head of School by the set deadline; parents of children from other schools ask the office about free places. The procedure is set out in a separate admission policy.
Stages and year groups Grades 1-9. Primary school, Grades 1-9. The first stage (1-4) and class 5.A follow the national programme in Slovak; 5.I is the preparatory class for MYP; MYP from Grade 6, one class per year, with the international programme presented by the school in English. The leaving certificate is national; after Grade 9 pupils move on to secondary school.
Address Skuteckého 8, 974 01 Banská Bystrica
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · MYP · authorised programmeThe IB register lists the Middle Years Programme at the school (recorded as Základná škola SSV), authorised since September 2025. It is a Slovak state elementary school: the MYP is taught in English in separate classes.
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
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: MYP (ages 11-16). MYP is the middle stage, ages 11 to 16. There are no exams here either; at the end an optional electronic assessment of pupils' work is possible.
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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
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
·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
Campus: School canteen, after-school club; the school calls its sports facilities somewhat limited and makes up with courses: skiing, swimming, hiking, cycling.
Clubs and activities: Astronomický krúžok · Futbalové hry · Stepový krúžok · Šachový krúžok · Hravá fyzika · ITALIANO · Atletický krúžok · eTwinning · Parlamentáčik · Zumba krúžok · DofE
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
A foreign lecturer works at the school. The support team: an educational counsellor, a school psychologist, a special educator and teaching assistants.
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
School psychologist and special educator in the support team; there is a pupil school parliament and a section on protection of life and health.
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%)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 data60 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 median75 "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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