The Rankings — 2026/27
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World's Top Schools, Ranked.
Every ranked and candidate school in the directory, one continuous list from #1 down. Use this view when you want the full picture without switching between tiers.
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Penny's picks
Poland · Masovian Voivodeship
American School of Warsaw
Poland's oldest international school, born at the U.S. Embassy in 1953, runs the full IB continuum on a ten-hectare campus near Warsaw.
65.2
Score
Poland · Masovian Voivodeship
The British School Warsaw
Nord Anglia's founding school pairs MIT-designed STEAM labs with a Juilliard-led music programme on the banks of the Vistula.
62.1
Score
Poland · Masovian Voivodeship
Warsaw Film High School
Embedded in a working film school, this matura lyceum trains students on the same gear and screens work at Kino Elektronik.
58.0
Score
Poland
Państwowe Liceum Sztuk Plastycznych im. Józefa Kluzy, Kraków
56.2
Score
Poland
Państwowe Liceum Sztuk Plastycznych im. Leona Wyczółkowskiego, Bydgoszcz
56.2
Score
Poland · Lesser Poland
British International School of Cracow
In Krakow's Old Town, three decades of British schooling meet the IB Diploma, small classes, and Tatra ski-week traditions.
56.1
Score
Poland · Lower Silesia
Wrocław International School
Lower Silesia's inquiry-led IB pioneer, the first in Poland authorised for both the Primary and Middle Years Programmes.
55.2
Score
Poland
Państwowe Liceum Sztuk Plastycznych im. Antoniego Kenara, Zakopane
53.8
Score
Poland
Państwowe Liceum Sztuk Plastycznych im. Jacka Malczewskiego, Częstochowa
52.0
Score
Poland
Państwowe Liceum Sztuk Plastycznych im. Piotra Potworowskiego, Poznań
51.3
Score
Poland
Państwowe Liceum Sztuk Plastycznych im. Józefa Szermentowskiego, Kielce
51.2
Score
Poland · Greater Poland
International School of Poznań
Poznan's original IB Diploma authorization, now closing in on a full PYP-MYP-DP continuum via its own induction year for newcomers.
50.8
Score
Poland · Mazovia
Lycée Français de Varsovie
Founded in 1919 as a diplomatic bridge between Paris and a newly independent Poland, its Baccalaureate classrooms still run on trilingual rigor.
50.7
Score
Poland
Państwowe Liceum Sztuk Plastycznych im. Jana Matejki, Nowy Wiśnicz
50.2
Score
Poland · Mazovia
Canadian School of Warsaw
In Warsaw's Mokotow district, a Canadian-founded IB Primary Years school pairs Polish curriculum rigor with English-Polish-French fluency.
49.9
Score
Poland · Mazovia
Willy Brandt German School
Poland's only German Auslandsschule, pairing Abitur rigor with a namesake built on Cold War reconciliation
49.8
Score
Poland · Lesser Poland
International School of Kraków
A forested Lusina campus outside Krakow pairs an American diploma with the IB, drawing more than 35 nationalities since 1993.
49.0
Score
Poland
Państwowe Liceum Sztuk Plastycznych im. Wojciecha Gersona, Warsaw
48.8
Score
Poland
Państwowe Liceum Sztuk Plastycznych im. Juliana Fałata, Bielsko-Biała
46.4
Score
Poland
Państwowe Liceum Sztuk Plastycznych im. Jana Pankiewicza, Katowice
0.0
Score
Poland
Państwowe Liceum Sztuk Plastycznych im. Magdaleny Abakanowicz, Gdynia
0.0
Score
Methodology
How we rank
Our composite weights eight categories. Each is scored 0–100 by our editorial panel and audited against 30 sub-criteria drawn from school records, university placement audits, alumni surveys, campus visits and parent interviews. Schools cannot pay for placement or preview scores.
Weighting
- Academic Outcomes20%
- University Placement17%
- Prestige & Heritage13%
- Alumni Network13%
- Facilities13%
- Transparency & Communications8%
- Peer & Industry Review10%
- Admissions Selectivity & Demand8%
Score key
Reading the scores
Bands out of 100
Every category, sub-criterion and composite total across this issue uses the same six-band editorial palette. Bands are calibrated against the full 300-school cohort — a "Distinguished" mark is meaningfully harder to earn than a "Strong" one.
- Exceptional90–100
Top of cohort
- Distinguished80–89
Elite tier
- Strong70–79
Consistently high
- Solid60–69
Reliable performer
- Average50–59
Room to grow
- Below par< 50
Underperforming
The same colour bands are used inside each school profile, on category chips, radar charts and the annual score-history line — so a colour glimpsed on the Rankings page always means the same thing everywhere else.