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
Peru · Lima
Colegio Roosevelt — The American School of Lima
Named for a wartime American president, this La Molina campus layers an FDR diploma with IB and Peru's own official credential.
69.2
Score
Peru · Lima
Markham College
Founded in 1946 by British expatriates, this Lima day school pairs house traditions with a bilingual IB-British curriculum.
64.7
Score
Peru · Lima
Colegio Mayor Secundario Presidente del Perú (COAR Lima)
Founded as Peru's original high-performance campus, it pulls top provincial scorers into a free IB boarding life on the edge of the Andes.
64.5
Score
Peru · Lima
Colegio de la Inmaculada
Ignatian pedagogy traced to a 1582 royal charter shapes a Surco campus built on service and rigor.
63.4
Score
Peru · San Antonio de Padua
Colegio Peruano Alemán Alexander von Humboldt
A state-backed German Auslandsschule since 1872, pairing the German Abitur with Peru's own bachillerato in Lima.
60.7
Score
Peru · La Molina
Newton College
From a lakeside Lima campus to its own Amazon rainforest field station, Peru's first IB school teaches the bilingual Diploma in both English and Spanish.
60.7
Score
Peru · Lima
Colegio Alpamayo
Boys-only Catholic education in La Molina fuses Opus Dei formation with a bilingual IB Diploma pathway and personalized talent tracks.
60.6
Score
Peru · Miraflores
Colegio San Silvestre
In Miraflores, girls inherit their house colours the way alumnae once inherited a curriculum built on British roots since 1932.
60.4
Score
Peru · Lima
Hiram Bingham International School
Peru's first school authorised across the full IB continuum, blending British house tradition with cohorts capped at fifty in Surco.
57.7
Score
Peru · Santiago de Surco
Colegio Villa María Marianistas
A Lima day school rooted in Marianist pedagogy, where Christian formation and family spirit shape the Peruvian curriculum classroom.
57.7
Score
Peru · Cercado de Lima
Colegio Sagrados Corazones Recoleta
Founded in 1893 by French Sacred Hearts missionaries, the school's early faculty went on to help found Peru's Catholic University.
56.7
Score
Peru · Lima
Colegio Peruano Británico
Trilingual since 1963, this Monterrico campus blends a Juilliard-shaped arts curriculum with IB rigor as Nord Anglia's first Peruvian school.
55.5
Score
Peru · La Molina
Colegio Peruano Norteamericano Abraham Lincoln
Peru's first parent-owned cooperative school, pairing an American curriculum with IB Diploma studies in La Molina.
52.5
Score
Peru · Monterrico
Colegio Franco Peruano
A 1950-founded AEFE outpost in Surco, where 25 nationalities converge for the French Baccalaureat and onward to universities in France.
52.4
Score
Peru · Jesús María
Colegio León Pinelo
In San Isidro, Peru's only Jewish day school threads Hebrew language and tradition through a trilingual, full IB continuum.
51.5
Score
Peru · Lima
Colegio Antonio Raimondi
Since 1872, a La Molina institution weaving Italian and Peruvian schooling toward the state Diploma di Maturita.
50.9
Score
Peru · Lima
Colegio Santa Úrsula
In San Isidro, German Ursuline nuns opened a girls' school in 1936 that still pairs Montessori roots with IB rigor in two languages.
49.2
Score
Peru · Lima
Casuarinas International College
First school certified in all four IB programmes, blending Spanish-English immersion from a Surco campus in southern Lima.
48.7
Score
Peru · Lima
Cambridge College Lima
In quiet Chorrillos, Peruvian heritage meets Cambridge IGCSE and IB, with French fluency and London Music credentials woven in.
46.2
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.