Zuoz · time the valley
Zuoz is not a Zurich suburb and not a Geneva lake campus. The portrait we have is a 1904 Engadine house with Swiss Matura, IGCSE and IB. Boarding and day. Time the train, not Bahnhofstrasse.
Zuoz is not “the international school.” It is an Engadine village whose Romansh and German mornings are allowed to be first, plus one official boarding-and-day door posting families name in the first week.
The portrait we have is Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz. Use it for the 2026–27 franc tables — boarding 101,100 or 104,900, international day 57,300 or 67,000, a cantonal Matura day line on a different PDF. This note is the valley around it. The Switzerland country page is the wider map — Geneva, Zurich, Lugano, Leysin.
Zuoz sits above St. Moritz. Grades 7–12. About 12 to 19. Day and boarding. Swiss Matura, IGCSE, IB. Youngest boarders in Spencer House and Chesa Crasta. It is not a Zurich hub card.
Walk it, then a valley Gymnasium courtyard, so you can hear which language the child relaxes in.
If you might stay, an IB or a bilingual Matura from a boarding house is not automatically the kindest paper. A cantonal door in the same valley — that is an official morning. Zurich is another canton. Lugano is another language.
The language of the yard is the test. A child can thrive in English at 9 a.m. and still be lonely at 11 if the village is speaking German or Romansh.
Leysin’s live tuition page did not give us a year we could quote. We name that mountain on the country page. We have not written its portrait.
Ask which paper. Ask whether you are buying day or a bed. Add the Legacy Fund and the deposit before you compare the annual line to Montagnola.
Time Zuoz on a Sunday evening if you are buying a bed.
The city hub is the short map. The Lyceum portrait is the long one.
Friendly orientation, not formal admissions advice. Always confirm dates with the school.
A 1904 Engadine house with Swiss Matura, IGCSE and IB, day and boarding from about 12. The 2026–27 financial guides print francs. Time the valley, not Bahnhofstrasse.
Chesières, Villars-sur-OllonChesières sits above Villars at about 1,200 metres. The school will send a tuition document. We will not borrow a number from a directory.
Pully, LausanneA Nord Anglia Swiss-international on the Vaud shore, not the UN quarter. Pully takes boarding from 11. Nyon stops at 12. The 2026–27 PDFs print day totals and a full-boarding year of CHF 112,000.
GenevaA Nord Anglia day-and-boarding campus in Versoix, not the UN quarter. High school offers IB, IBCP, an American diploma, the French Bac and the Swiss Maturité. The 2026–27 boarding year is a published CHF 117,500.
The letters on the leaver’s certificate matter. They are not the whole child. Here is how to tell them apart without a headache, and without pretending every door stays open.
16 minYou do not need a perfect algorithm. You need a few true things about your child, a boring list on the fridge, and the courage to ignore a beautiful campus that does not fit.
15 minTuition is the number on the homepage. The PDF is the number that arrives in March. Here is how to read the second one, without inventing a euro, a krona, or a deadline.
12 minSkip the question about last year’s average. Ask the ones that make a teacher’s face change. Then look at the corridor while they answer.