Switzerland · Zuoz
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.
Curriculum as published:Swiss Matura · IGCSE · IB Diploma Programme · German Intensive Year
Languages of instruction:German, English, Italian on the bilingual Matura path
Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz is a co-educational day-and-boarding school in CH-7524 Zuoz, in the Engadine above St. Moritz. Official site lyceum-alpinum.ch. The home page says the house began in 1904 as the Institut Engiadina, with 22 students, and that Steven Church is Head. Switchboard +41 81 851 30 00. Admissions +41 81 851 31 00, admission@lyceum-alpinum.ch.
It is not Zurich International School, not TASIS Switzerland above Lugano, and not Institut Le Rosey on the lake. Zuoz is a valley Tuesday. Time that train before you treat it as a Zurich hub card.
The home page’s snapshot: about 330 students — 220 boarding, 120 day — aged 12 to 19, from over 45 nations, average class 18, teacher-student 1:5. Treat those as the school’s own photograph.
The useful questions are: Do you want a Swiss Matura, an IGCSE-then-IB path, or the German Intensive Year? Is this child a day pupil from the valley, or a boarder? And have you added the Legacy Fund and the deposit, because they sit beside the annual line?
Families who want an Alpine week with a Swiss paper or an IB, and who can live with Sunday evening in a valley rather than a lake promenade.
The school names Swiss Matura — also bilingual German/English or Italian/German — IGCSE, the IB Diploma, and a German Intensive Year to enter the Matura. The 2025–26 profile says the international section runs English in Grades 7–8, IGCSE in 9–10, then IB Diploma or a high-school diploma in 11–12. The cantonal Matura is taught in German. Ask which corridor this child would actually sit in.
Admission, the contact page says, is for Grades 7 to 11. Grade 12 only in exceptional cases. Mid-year is possible, not recommended. A boarding place is only guaranteed with registration at least half a year before the start.
It will not suit a family hunting a Geneva day campus, a Zurich lakeside IB, or a kindergarten. Walk those houses if that is the climate.
The upper village of Zuoz. Sports fields, Alpine backdrop. Youngest boarders in Spencer House and Chesa Crasta; older students in Chesa Arpiglia, Chesa Urezza, Kleinhaus and Grosshaus. Single or double rooms. The motto on the home page is mens sana in corpore sano.
The boarding financial guide says boarding is integral for those on that contract — a boarder does not become a day pupil by wishing it. Day families have their own PDF.
Online registration, application fee before the test and interview, then an offer and a contract. The contact page invites a personal tour and a trial boarding day. Rolling, subject to rooms. Non-EU/EFTA families, the 2025–26 facts sheet says, are advised to finish the file before the end of May for visas. We will not invent a CAT4 cutoff.
Boarding, double room
| Path | 2026–27 |
|---|---|
| Grades 7–10 | CHF 101,100 |
| Grades 11–12 | CHF 104,900 |
The boarding year, the April 2026 PDF says, includes accommodation and pastoral care, meals and snacks, compulsory lessons, the health centre and school psychologists, ECA, an all-year mountain pass including a ski pass, college counselling, school books, and community-weekend activities. It does not include insurance, non-compulsory trips, visas, airport transfers, or project-week extras.
Day, International Programme and German Intensive Year
| Path | 2026–27 |
|---|---|
| Grades 7–10 and German Intensive Year | CHF 57,300 |
| IB Diploma Programme | CHF 67,000 |
One-off
| Line | Amount |
|---|---|
| Application fee | CHF 1,600 |
| Legacy Fund (boarding PDF) | CHF 3,000 |
| Deposit, boarding | CHF 16,000 |
| Deposit, day | CHF 6,000 |
| Single-room supplement, if assigned | CHF 15,000 / year |
Sibling discount: 10% on additional children while two or more are enrolled; the eldest pays full tuition.
The German day Matura sheet prints a cantonal line of CHF 640 for grades 9–12, plus exam and material extras. That is a different paper from the international day totals. Open that PDF if the Matura is the door.
New families: application fee before the test; deposit (and Legacy Fund on the boarding contract) with the offer; first-semester tuition invoiced in March for an August start. Invoices twice a year. Full payment to guarantee enrolment. Withdrawal before 15 May: application fee (and Legacy Fund on boarding) kept; 15 May–15 June: half the deposit; after 15 June: the whole deposit.
Personalised learning coaching, if assigned: CHF 3,000 / 6,000 / 9,000 by tier. Private lessons CHF 110 for 40 minutes alone. We will not invent a lunch total for day families from the voucher lines.
We are not ranking Zuoz against Rosey, Aiglon, or TASIS. We are not putting this house on the Zurich hub. We are not treating 330 students as a census we counted. We are not mixing the cantonal Matura day line with the international day totals.
Ask which paper — Matura, IGCSE-then-IB, or the German Intensive Year. Ask whether you are buying day or a bed. Add the Legacy Fund and the deposit before you compare the annual line to Lugano. Time Zuoz on a Sunday evening if you are buying a bed.
The Zuoz hub is the short map. The house also sits on the boarding page. The Switzerland country page is the wider one.
Official pages and documents we read. If a figure matters to your budget or your application, open the link and confirm it is still current.
Friendly orientation, not an application. Dates, fees, and programme details move. Confirm everything with the school.
Chesières 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.
GenevaA Geneva private in Petit-Lancy since 1905, francophone or bilingual from kindergarten, then three leaving papers. The 2026–27 tariff is a published PDF in francs, VAT included. It is not Ecolint and not Versoix boarding.
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.
13 minSome children bloom down a corridor of trunks and cocoa. Some need their own bedroom and the dog. Both are allowed. The commute is also a kind of boarding.
15 minThe 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.