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
Côte d'Ivoire · Riviera Golf
International Community School of Abidjan
Sponsored by the U.S. Embassy, this PreK-12 Riviera III campus pairs an American curriculum with an IB Diploma track for over 60 nationalities.
56.0
Score
Côte d'Ivoire · Cocody
Lycée Français Blaise Pascal
An award-winning bioclimatic gymnasium and a scientific classe preparatoire link this Abidjan lycee to France's Grandes Ecoles pipeline.
54.6
Score
Côte d'Ivoire · Riviera
Enko Riviera International School
A bilingual IB pathway from age three to Diploma, with Grade 1 career tracks aimed at global university admission
54.0
Score
Côte d'Ivoire · Cocody Deux-Plateaux
Cours Sévigné Abidjan
A Marcory day school since 1967, pairing AEFE-homologated academics with bilingual DNL classes and its own cultural arts space.
51.5
Score
Côte d'Ivoire · Cocody
Groupe Scolaire Le Cardinal
A day school in Abidjan holding firm to the French Baccalaureate amid Cote d'Ivoire's crowded private-school landscape
50.5
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.