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
Zimbabwe · Avondale
St. George's College Harare
Jesuit since 1896, this Harare college pairs British curriculum rigor with forty hectares beside the Botanical Gardens.
68.9
Score
Zimbabwe · Mashonaland East
Peterhouse Boys' School
An Anglican boarding estate near Marondera where a private game reserve doubles as classroom and Sixth Form turns co-educational.
68.2
Score
Zimbabwe · Matabeleland South
Falcon College
A derelict Matabeleland goldmine reborn as a Cambridge campus ringed by its own game park of zebra and giraffe
60.0
Score
Zimbabwe · Chisipite
Chisipite Senior School
Rooted in a 1929 farm-school lineage, this all-girls Harare campus pairs Cambridge IGCSEs with a signature Servant Leadership finale.
57.9
Score
Zimbabwe · Mashonaland East
Peterhouse Girls' School
On a 1,200-acre estate bordering Gosho Park, Anglican boarding pairs tight A-level classes with sister-school ties to Peterhouse Boys.
53.0
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.