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
Tunisia · La Marsa
American Cooperative School of Tunis
In Tunis since 1959, this American day school holds a singular distinction: the only IB World School in Tunisia.
61.8
Score
Tunisia · El Menzah
British International School of Tunis
House names spanning Boudicca to Hannibal frame a British curriculum steps from ancient Carthage's ruins.
53.9
Score
Tunisia · Mutuelleville
Lycée Pierre Mendès France
Since 1956 in Mutuelleville, this AEFE lycee pairs the French Baccalaureate with an Arabic international OIB track.
53.6
Score
Tunisia · Gammarth
Lycée Gustave Flaubert
A five-hectare Mediterranean garden campus near Tunis, where AEFE's French Baccalaureate meets a genuinely mixed Franco-Tunisian student body.
53.0
Score
Tunisia · Sidi Bou Said
International School of Carthage
In the shadow of Carthage's ruins, an American-IB day school built its own tradition of blue-and-yellow school pride from scratch.
48.3
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.