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
Ethiopia · Sidist Kilo
Sandford International School
Founded by the family that helped restore Haile Selassie's throne, this Addis Ababa day school now runs Ethiopia's oldest Cambridge exam centre.
60.3
Score
Ethiopia · Kolfe Keranyo
Bingham Academy
Born in 1946 to educate missionary children, this Addis Ababa campus now gathers students from nearly thirty nations under one faith-rooted roof.
59.6
Score
Ethiopia · Bole
Andinet International School
Beside Ethiopia's Athletics Federation, a Gurd Shola campus tracks pupils from inquiry-led IPC into Pearson Edexcel's global exam ladder.
58.7
Score
Ethiopia · Old Airport
International Community School of Addis Ababa
On land gifted by an emperor in Africa's diplomatic capital, its running track bears the name of Haile Gebrselassie
56.9
Score
Ethiopia · Piazza
Lycée Guebre-Mariam
Seeded by a 1947 Franco-Ethiopian accord on Churchill Avenue, its Baccalaureate runs on French, English and Amharic alike.
54.6
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.