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
Egypt · Cairo Governorate
Cairo American College
Founded in 1945 as Egypt's only US State Department-sponsored school, pairing an American diploma with an IB pathway dating to 1993.
71.4
Score
Egypt · Cairo Governorate
The British International School, Cairo
A Gezira institution since 1976, pairing rigorous IGCSE grounding with the IB Diploma and one of Egypt's rare COBIS accreditations.
66.2
Score
Egypt · Cairo Governorate
New Cairo British International School
Founded in 1978 by WHO-linked parents, this New Cairo campus runs parallel British and Dutch primary streams into a shared IB sixth form.
64.8
Score
Egypt · Cairo Governorate
Deutsche Schule der Borromäerinnen
Steps from Tahrir Square, Catholic sisters have prepared Muslim and Christian girls for the German Abitur since 1904.
58.0
Score
Egypt · Cairo Governorate
American International School in Egypt
Pairs a full American diploma with an optional IB track, drawing a largely Egyptian day-student body to its new Uptown Cairo campus.
56.5
Score
Egypt · Cairo Governorate
Malvern College Egypt
In New Cairo, a house-based day school pairs A-Levels with the IB Diploma, carrying a 150-year Malvern lineage.
55.7
Score
Egypt · El Rehab
Modern English School Cairo
From 28 pupils in 1990 to a 2,400-strong New Cairo campus running British, American and IB pathways side by side
55.6
Score
Egypt · Maadi
Lycée Français du Caire
Founded in 1911, this Nile-side AEFE lycee anchors the Baccalaureate exam hub for Egypt, Jordan, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Burundi.
52.9
Score
Egypt · New Cairo
Choueifat International School Cairo
In New Cairo's Katameya district, a SABIS-network campus pairs American coursework with a century-old, data-driven teaching method.
50.1
Score
Egypt · New Cairo
Cairo English School
A New Cairo campus where English National Curriculum meets Cambridge and IB pathways, anchored by Duke of Edinburgh expeditions and Week Without Walls
49.9
Score
Egypt · 6th of October City
Metropolitan School Cairo
A third-generation schooling dynasty in New Cairo pioneered Egypt's first classroom entrepreneurship programme, starting in kindergarten.
48.1
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.