MariaScales/international-schools-fees-2026

International Schools: Cambridge and IB fees by stage (12 cities, 150 schools, 2026/27)

Yearly tuition per child at age 11 (Lower Secondary / MYP1 / Grade 6) and age 15 (IGCSE / MYP5 / Grade 10), one-time fees and extras, curriculum (Cambridge, IB, mixed, other), which stages each school covers (Cambridge primary → IGCSE → A Level; IB PYP/MYP/DP), language of instruction, accreditations and a quality tier, for 12 cities: Madrid, Lisbon, Rome, Berlin, Vienna, Prague, Brussels, Helsinki, Paris, Limassol, Antalya, Istanbul. Plus the official Cambridge finder listing used as the sampling frame.

Full page: part of Relocation by the Numbers, with the method and downloads: https://mariascales.com/research/relocation/data/#international-schools-fees-2026

Snapshot: collected September–October 2026 (see checked_at / collected_at columns). No updates are promised — this is a dated snapshot.

How it was built. Each table was collected by an AI research session (Claude) from official sources (laws, ministries, insurers, universities) and secondary sources, then verified by a second pass and a human review.

Language. All columns are in English. Numbers in English text use a decimal point and comma thousands separators. Boolean columns use true / false.

Files

File	Rows	One row =
school_fees_by_stage.csv	150	a school: fees by stage, one-time fees, extras
school_stages.csv	150	a school: stage coverage flags, age range, language, pathway
intl_schools.csv	129	a school: curriculum group, tier, fees, accreditations
intl_schools_by_city.csv	12	a city: counts and medians (fees at ages 11 and 15 combined)
cambridge_finder_centres.csv	138	a centre from the official Cambridge finder (country_en derived from the city)

Sources

School websites (fee schedules 2026/27), cambridgeinternational.org finder, ibo.org finder; collected 25–26.09.2026, prices re-checked 12.10.2026.

Caveats

Fees are list prices before sibling discounts; fee_year is blank where the school publishes prices on request. Tier is our judgement (1 = top accreditation and exam track, 2 = standard, 3 = uncertain).

License and citation

Data compilation © Maria Atamanova (mariascales), 2026, released under CC BY 4.0. Underlying facts come from the public sources listed per row; cite them where you use them. Please cite as: Atamanova, M. (2026). International Schools: Cambridge and IB fees by stage (12 cities, 150 schools, 2026/27) [Data set]. https://mariascales.com/research/relocation/data/#international-schools-fees-2026