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
Uganda · Lubowa
International School of Uganda
Since 1967, a 33-acre garden campus in Lubowa has run East Africa's longest continuous IB programme for over fifty nationalities.
60.1
Score
Uganda · Old Kampala
Aga Khan High School Kampala
Since 1959, Uganda's first multicultural school remains one of only four in the country authorised for the IB Diploma.
56.6
Score
Uganda · Muyenga
Rainbow International School Uganda
Sixty nationalities share a nine-acre Kampala campus where Cambridge IGCSEs and BTEC pathways lead side by side to university.
52.8
Score
Uganda · Mbuya
Ambrosoli International School
Named for a missionary doctor-priest, this Bugolobi primary became Uganda's first IPC-accredited school in 2019.
48.9
Score
Uganda · Bukoto
Kabira International School
A leafy Bukoto campus where the English National Curriculum feeds into Cambridge IGCSE and the IB Diploma for over 40 nationalities.
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.