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Schools known for Alpine Skiing.

12 schools editorially verified as known for alpine skiing — with the pathway to prove it (fixtures record, national-squad output, dedicated facility). Elite Sport 80 members appear first.

  1. 01
    Stams, Tyrol, AustriaBoarding

    Since 1967, the world's original ski-racing academy pairs Olympic-level training with an extended five-year path to Matura.

  2. 02
    East Burke, VT, United StatesBoarding

    America's first ski-racing academy, tucked at the base of a Northeast Kingdom peak, has sent dozens of graduates to the Winter Olympics since 1970.

  3. 03
    Waitsfield, VT, United StatesBoarding + Day

    Alpine and Nordic race training at Sugarbush Resort pairs with a college-prep curriculum in Vermont's Mad River Valley

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  4. 04
    Killington, VT, United StatesBoarding + Day

    America's longest-running winter-term ski academy, pairing a 5:1 classroom ratio with daily training on Killington's slopes

  5. 05
    Rolle, SwitzerlandBoarding

    Term time splits between Lake Geneva and the Alps, a 140-year migration built around bilingual IB and French Baccalaureate study.

  6. 06
    St Gallen, SwitzerlandBoarding

    Above St Gallen's art-nouveau villas, a 1:2 staff ratio powers a 40-course Talent and Enrichment path from robotics to hospitality.

  7. 07
    Chesières, SwitzerlandBoarding

    Perched at 1,200 metres in the Swiss Alps, meditation and expedition learning are as core to the timetable as the IB Diploma.

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  8. 08
    Starnberg, GermanyBoth

    Housed in a former 1875 castle on Lake Starnberg, this Bavarian campus channels nearly every senior into the full IB Diploma.

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  9. 09
    Villars-sur-Ollon, SwitzerlandBoarding

    Since 1910, alpine boarding at 4,429 feet, where house culture is built for ridge hikes and a record Kilimanjaro summit push.

  10. 10
    Geneva, SwitzerlandBoarding

    Born beside the League of Nations in 1924, where its own teachers first drafted the IB diploma.

  11. 11
    Zuoz, SwitzerlandBoth

    At 1,750 metres in the Engadine, IB and Swiss Matura classes share the calendar with cricket on Europe's highest pitch, in play since 1922.

  12. 12
    Toronto, CanadaGirlsBoth

    Toronto's only all-years IB girls' school, spanning PYP to Diploma with a sister campus on South Korea's Jeju Island.

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