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
Argentina · Buenos Aires
St Andrew's Scots School (Colegio San Andrés)
Founded in 1838 by Scottish settlers, Argentina's oldest private school pairs the IB diploma with British-rooted house traditions.
76.8
Score
Argentina · Buenos Aires Province
Asociación Escuelas Lincoln
Where a Rio de la Plata campus in La Lucila delivers American, Argentine, and IB diplomas under Argentina's only US accreditation.
72.6
Score
Argentina · Buenos Aires
Northlands School
Founded in 1920 by two women educators, this Zona Norte school pairs Anglo-Argentine heritage with a full IB continuum across twin campuses.
72.0
Score
Argentina · Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires
Founded in 1661 as a Jesuit college, this UBA-run school still teaches Latin and Greek en route to Nobel laureates and four presidents.
71.9
Score
Argentina · Buenos Aires
Belgrano Day School
Since 1912, four houses have anchored a Belgrano campus blending English immersion from age two with Cambridge A-levels.
71.5
Score
Argentina · Buenos Aires
Colegio Cardenal Newman
Founded by Irish Christian Brothers in 1948, this Boulogne day school pairs a full IB diploma with a rugby culture that has fed Argentina's Pumas.
71.1
Score
Argentina · Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
Escuela Superior de Comercio Carlos Pellegrini
Argentina's first school of commerce, founded in 1890, still issues its diplomas straight from the University of Buenos Aires.
59.9
Score
Argentina · Buenos Aires
Instituto Libre de Segunda Enseñanza
Born from an 1892 faculty walkout at Colegio Nacional, still governed under University of Buenos Aires oversight near Plaza Lavalle.
58.2
Score
Argentina · Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
Colegio del Salvador
Tracing its Jesuit lineage to 1617, this Callao landmark ended 154 years of all-boys tradition by admitting girls in 2023.
58.2
Score
Argentina · Córdoba Province
Colegio Nacional de Monserrat
Founded in 1687 inside a UNESCO Jesuit block, this university-linked lyceum still elects its own leadership by vote.
57.6
Score
Argentina
ESEA en Artes Visuales Rogelio Yrurtia – Secondary Division
57.0
Score
Argentina · Tortuguitas
St. Catherine's Moorlands School
Argentina's IB pioneer since 1973, pairing a British-rooted curriculum with a storied Buenos Aires hockey tradition
56.9
Score
Argentina · Vicente López
Colegio Michael Ham
Inside a neo-Gothic castle on the Vicente Lopez barranca, nearly a century of girls-only schooling has just given way to coeducation.
53.4
Score
Argentina · Buenos Aires Province
Colegio Ward
A Methodist-founded campus whose 13 wooded hectares serve as the green lung of Ramos Mejia's western suburbs
51.8
Score
Argentina · Buenos Aires Province
St George's College (Quilmes)
Since 1898, English house culture and rugby heritage anchor Argentina's only school combining full-day study with mixed boarding life.
50.5
Score
Argentina · Villa Devoto
Buenos Aires International Christian Academy
Buenos Aires' only Christian international school pairs a US college-prep track with a dual Argentine diploma.
49.0
Score
Argentina · Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
St Xavier's College
In Palermo Viejo, a bilingual Catholic education blends Argentina's national curriculum with the IB Diploma and Cambridge IGCSE.
46.7
Score
Argentina
ESEA en Artes Visuales Lola Mora – Secondary Division
0.0
Score
Argentina
ESEA en Artes Visuales Manuel Belgrano – Secondary Division
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.