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
Chile · Lo Barnechea
Nido de Águilas
On 130 acres in the Andean foothills outside Santiago, Harkness-style seminars feed parallel US, Chilean, and IB diploma tracks.
72.2
Score
Chile · Santiago Metropolitan Region
The Grange School
Near-century-old English public-school ethos at the foot of the Andes, pairing Fair Play tradition with bilingual IB and A-Level rigor.
63.1
Score
Chile · Reñaca
The Mackay School
Founded by Scots in 1857 as Chile's first British school, where football took root and rugby still shapes character on the Renaca coast
62.6
Score
Chile · Región Metropolitana de Santiago
Santiago College
From an 1880 Methodist girls' boarding school to Chile's first IB pioneer, now coeducational in the Andean foothills.
59.5
Score
Chile · Vitacura
Saint George's College Santiago
A Holy Cross foundation in Vitacura since 1936 that has quietly seeded a third of Chile's top-200 corporate boardrooms.
58.7
Score
Chile · Las Condes
Colegio Alemán de Santiago
Founded in 1891 by Santiago's German colony, this three-campus academy remains Chile's only school pairing Begegnungsschule status with the German Abitur.
57.4
Score
Chile · Las Condes
Redland School
On a 24-hectare foothill campus in Las Condes, IB rigor meets Chile's national curriculum and a mountain-bike circuit.
55.7
Score
Chile · Lo Barnechea
Craighouse School
A Scottish surname turned school name, blending British house tradition with a full IB continuum on a 24-hectare Andean campus.
55.7
Score
Chile · Las Condes
Colegio Villa María Academy
Founded by American nuns in 1940 and lay-led since 2011, this Las Condes girls' school pairs Catholic tradition with the IB diploma.
55.3
Score
Chile · Las Condes
The Newlands School
A British day-school ethos meets IB rigor in the Andean foothills of Lo Barnechea, just outside Santiago.
50.0
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.