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
Philippines · Metro Manila
International School Manila
Rooted in 1920 as the American School, this Bonifacio Global City campus was the first in Asia to offer the IB Diploma.
74.4
Score
Philippines · Metro Manila
British School Manila
Oldest not-for-profit British school in Manila, houses named Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao, IB scores six points above world average.
71.8
Score
Philippines · Metro Manila
Ateneo de Manila Senior High School
Atop Quezon City's Loyola Heights, Jesuit college-prep formation anchors a senior high that only went co-ed in 2016.
71.4
Score
Philippines · Laguna
Brent International School Manila
Tracing its lineage to a 1909 Episcopal mission school, this Laguna campus has run the IB Diploma since 1986.
69.2
Score
Philippines · Metro Manila
Xavier School
Founded by Jesuits exiled from China, this all-boys Greenhills school pairs mandatory Chinese-language curriculum with an IB diploma track.
66.1
Score
Philippines · Metro Manila
Chinese International School Manila
Mandarin threads through every grade of an American curriculum before it hands off to the IB Diploma on McKinley Hill.
64.4
Score
Philippines · Rizal
Faith Academy
A 1957 missionary-founded campus in the Antipolo hills, still schooling third-culture kids from more than 20 nations under an American curriculum.
63.3
Score
Philippines · Metro Manila
De La Salle Santiago Zobel School
Behind Ayala Alabang's gates, this Lasallian K-12 campus builds its arts program around a theater locals call the CCP of the South.
63.2
Score
Philippines · Metro Manila
Miriam College
A century-old Catholic school for girls in Loyola Heights, pairing liberal arts with pioneering gender and peace studies programmes.
61.6
Score
Philippines · Metro Manila
German European School Manila
On Parañaque's pioneering Eurocampus, shared with a French lycee, German Abitur rigor converges into the IB diploma.
55.8
Score
Philippines · Metro Manila
Reedley International School
Where Singapore's math rigor meets American humanities, and life coaches track every student's growth in Pasig.
49.8
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.