World's Top Schools, Ranked.

United Kingdom · Europe

Modern scholarship for girls with a Tideway boathouse

Colombia · Bogotá

Founded in 1961 as a bilingual British-style day school, now the first in Colombia authorized for all four IB programmes

United Kingdom · Europe

Catford’s pioneering 3–18 day school with a STEM tradition

Colombia · Bogotá D.C

A 1938 foothills campus in Bogota pairing dual US-Colombian diplomas, 32 AP courses and a four-house tradition.

United Kingdom · Europe

A Christian day school in Mottingham since 1842

Brazil · Rio de Janeiro

Perched at the edge of Tijuca National Forest with Christ the Redeemer in view, a 1937 campus layers IB, American and Brazilian diplomas.

United Kingdom · Europe

West London ACS campus for American and IB students

Brazil · São Paulo

The first British school in Latin America accredited as a British School Overseas, blending UK curriculum with Brazilian roots in Jardins.

United Kingdom · Europe

Ealing girls’ school with a no either-or ethos

Netherlands · South Holland

Since 1931, a Voorschoten campus near The Hague where sixth formers choose freely among A-Levels, BTEC, IB Diploma or IB Career Programme.

United States · New Jersey

Since 1936, oval Harkness tables replace lectures with discussion, while a century-old House system anchors campus life

Ireland · County Dublin

A 1950s refugee-aid charity's legacy now runs a dual-track Abitur and Leaving Cert campus shared with a French lycee in Clonskeagh.

China · Beijing

Founded in 1980 by five embassies, this Shunyi day school pairs a US diploma track with IB rigor and dual-language classes from early years.

United Kingdom · Europe

Kingston upon Thames’ selective girls’ school since 1880

China · Shanghai

A century-old Shanghai institution since 1912, running AP and IB in parallel across two sprawling campuses

United Kingdom · Europe

Highgate girls’ school with a 10% braver ethos

United States · New Hampshire

Every class gathers around the same oval table Edward Harkness endowed in 1930, still central to Exeter's discussion-driven classrooms.

United States · Massachusetts

Founded in 1778 as the nation's oldest incorporated boarding school, its Harkness tables still turn lectures into conversation.

United States · Nevada

America's first tuition-free public school for profoundly gifted students, embedded on a university campus in Reno.

Indonesia · Jakarta

Founded in 1951 by UN diplomats' embassies, this South Jakarta campus still competes in Southeast Asia's invitation-only IASAS athletics and arts league.

Vietnam · Hanoi

One of only two UN-affiliated schools on earth, weaving the Sustainable Development Goals into an IB curriculum spanning 60-plus nationalities

Netherlands · North Holland

Just outside Amsterdam, this 1964 founding became the first school anywhere to run the full IB continuum from age two to eighteen.

Brazil · Lago Sul

Born a year after Brasilia itself, this embassy-rooted campus braids American, Brazilian and IB diplomas into one bilingual education.

United Kingdom · Europe

Girls’ education in the heart of London since 1881

Ireland · Dublin

A seven-day boarding rhythm and a Butterfield-designed chapel anchor this Church of Ireland enclave in the Dublin foothills.

Colombia · Cundinamarca

An all-girls IB campus since 1948 where seniors take charge of the school itself on Government Day

Brazil · São Paulo

Born in 1920 as a corporate venture of Citibank, Ford and GE, this Morumbi campus still sends seniors off with three diplomas at once.

United Kingdom · Europe

London co-educational day and boarding school founded in 1807

Vietnam · District 2

Three Thao Dien campuses carry students from England's National Curriculum through IGCSE into the IB Diploma.

Taiwan · Taipei

A former Cold War defense-department school in Tianmu, now offering both AP rigor and the full IB Diploma to Taiwan's global families.

Vietnam · District 7

Vietnam's only Apple Distinguished School, pairing full IB Diploma depth with AP breadth on a non-profit Phu My Hung campus.

Indonesia · Banten

Grown from a 1973 British Embassy classroom into a 45-acre Bintaro estate where English roots meet an IB finish.

United States · New York

A single exam and a sub-3-percent acceptance rate feed a Battery Park City engine for math, science and technology talent.

United States · Virginia

A Fairfax County magnet where every senior completes original research across fifteen specialized STEM labs.

United Kingdom · Europe

Girls’ day school in the heart of Regent’s Park

Thailand · Nonthaburi

Opened in 1951 as Thailand's first international school, it pioneered the country's IB Diploma and runs a wilderness campus in Phetchaburi.

Colombia · Cundinamarca

One of Colombia's earliest IB adopters, running its own campus bio-refuge and a grade-11-led house system in the Bogota foothills.

South Korea · Jeju Province

Founding school of Jeju's Global Education City, blending a 170-year London pedigree with strong IB results and seven boarding houses.

South Korea · Seoul

Founded in 1912 beside Yonsei University, first in Korea to adopt the IB, blending British, American and Clan-house traditions.

Malaysia · Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur

Malaysia's longest-running IB World School, pairing a 25-acre Ampang Hilir campus with mandatory Asia-wide service expeditions.

Netherlands · South Holland

A stone's throw from the Dutch PM's residence, this Protestant gymnasium sends fifth-formers to Rome each year to live Latin and Greek.

Ireland · Dublin

Overseen by the Erasmus Smith Trust since 1669, this Rathgar day school merged with its Diocesan sister school in 1974 to go co-educational.

United Kingdom · Europe

West London's Benedictine all-through Catholic day school

Vietnam · District 2

Vietnam's first IB World School, where nearly two-thirds of graduates earn the Bilingual Diploma, double the global rate.

Vietnam · Long Bien District

Riverside campus in Long Bien pairs a British primary grounding with a Juilliard-curated music curriculum en route to the IB Diploma.

Netherlands · South Holland

Near The Hague's courts of international justice, a Peace and Diplomacy strand turns Model UN into fieldwork in Nepal and Thailand.

Ireland · Leinster

Chartered by Charles II in 1669, this Liffey-side campus still channels its Blue Coat School past into modern boarding life.

Portugal · Sintra

The Iberian Peninsula's oldest American school pairs a U.S. diploma with the IB from its Sintra hillside campus.

Portugal · Cascais Municipality

British curriculum since 1932 on a former transatlantic cable estate steps from Carcavelos beach, teaching bilingually since 1935.

Argentina · Buenos Aires Province

Where a Rio de la Plata campus in La Lucila delivers American, Argentine, and IB diplomas under Argentina's only US accreditation.

Colombia · Valle del Cauca

Founded in 1947 at the foothills of the Andes, where three-walled, open-air classrooms meet a bilingual, dual-diploma American curriculum.

United States · New Hampshire

On a 2,000-acre Concord campus where American ice hockey was born in 1883, boarding life still shapes every house and classroom.

United States · Connecticut

A Wallingford campus where an I.M. Pei arts center anchors a rare, dedicated Arabic and Middle Eastern studies track.

United States · New York

A Bronx public school whose exam-only admissions have produced more Nobel physics laureates than any other U.S. high school.

United States · Connecticut

On its 827-acre Berkshire campus, a 287-acre working farm supplies the dining hall and anchors the science curriculum.

Malaysia · Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur

Malaysia's first British international school, still run not-for-profit, pairs A-Level rigour with an IAAF-certified running track.

Belgium · Brussels-Capital Region

In woodland Tervuren near Brussels, the only Belgian school pairing A Levels, IB Diploma and BTEC under one roof.

Malaysia · Negeri Sembilan

Royal-founded in the Negeri Sembilan hills, pairing British and IB pathways with a Sixth Form built for Oxbridge ambition

United States · Massachusetts

In a preserved 1797 village along the Deerfield River, seniors close their English studies not with an exam, but a spoken meditation.

United Kingdom · Europe

South Kensington’s French lycée with a full British section

Germany · Hesse

A founding member of the International Baccalaureate since the 1960s, still shaping the diploma from its Taunus forest campus.

France · Île-de-France

A founding IB school since 1946, this Saint-Cloud campus is the only Paris-area school offering a dual-track IB and AP curriculum.

United States · Indiana

Thirty-nine consecutive state swimming titles crown Indiana's largest public campus, home to a 500-voice choral program.

United States · New York

A tuition-free CUNY-run gifted school on the Upper East Side, admitting by a single brutal exam and about 7 percent of applicants.

United Kingdom · Europe

Northwood girls’ day school with standout results and 200 clubs

Malaysia · Johor

Wiltshire's first overseas campus pairs British boarding houses with the IB on a 90-acre farm-and-lake site near Singapore.

Argentina · Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires

Founded in 1661 as a Jesuit college, this UBA-run school still teaches Latin and Greek en route to Nobel laureates and four presidents.

Colombia · Cundinamarca

Since 1914, this Bogota pioneer of South America's Escuela Nueva movement still runs its IB classrooms on Montessori and Decroly roots.

Switzerland · Geneva

Born beside the League of Nations in 1924, where its own teachers first drafted the IB diploma.

Japan · Tokyo

Rooted in Chofu since 1902, its early campus plans once drew sketches from Frank Lloyd Wright himself.

Vietnam · District 2

On the Thu Thiem riverside, Saigon's only on-campus boarding house pairs IB rigor with an Australian ethos of fair play.

South Korea · Seocho-gu

In Seoul's Banpo district, a Dulwich campus pairs British day schooling with IB averages some six points above the global mean.

Ireland · Dublin

On a 56-acre seaside campus, Spiritan roots from 1860 underpin a rugby dynasty with a record 72 Leinster Schools Cup titles.

United States · Illinois

A tuition-free state laboratory in Aurora where a fifth of the school week is reserved for original research, not lectures.

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United States · New Jersey

Seven college-style academies and on-campus stem-cell, nanotech, and optics labs turn Hackensack teens into Regeneron Science Talent Search scholars.

Ireland · Dublin

Ireland's only Methodist secondary school, coeducational since 1911 and tracing its ethos back to 1845 on St Stephen's Green.

United Kingdom · Europe

Selective girls’ grammar with a multilingual Sutton intake

United States · California

Along the LA River in Studio City, a former golf course is rising into a riverside campus of trails, turf and native habitat.

United States · New York

In Fort Greene, sophomores choose among 18 STEM majors inside the nation's largest single-campus high school.

United States · California

Since 1967, a Bay Area laboratory for gifted minds, pairing design thinking with the country's first dedicated social-emotional learning curriculum.

United States · New Jersey

A 284-student engineering magnet in Monmouth County where civil design and digital electronics substitute for standard electives.

Italy · Lazio

Italy's oldest British international school, splitting classrooms between the Vatican and Rome's northern hills, posts IB scores among the continent's highest.

Canada · Ontario

Modelled on Eton in 1829, this all-boys Toronto institution pairs IB rigour with 450 acres of wilderness learning at Norval.

United States · Massachusetts

On an Olmsted-designed campus, English-style forms and a nightly handshake anchor this Episcopal school's century-old ethic of service.

Hong Kong · Hong Kong

Since 1860, this Kowloon institution has topped Hong Kong's Outstanding Student Awards tally for decades.

United Kingdom · Greater London

A Hammersmith day school where admission itself is the only scholarship, and GCSE results already top the national table.

Germany · Bavaria

Housed in a former 1875 castle on Lake Starnberg, this Bavarian campus channels nearly every senior into the full IB Diploma.

Hong Kong · Hong Kong

Hong Kong's first co-educational school runs DSE and IB side by side on its Mid-Levels campus, posting the city's top IB averages.

Colombia · Cundinamarca

On the Sabana's edge, circular classrooms and a LEED Platinum campus embed sustainability into an IB curriculum built for global citizens.

Singapore · Singapore

Singapore's storied all-girls secondary school offering a seamless six-year Integrated Programme from Secondary 1 through to A-Levels.

United States · Pennsylvania

A North Philadelphia public magnet where fifth-graders enter at a 3 percent acceptance rate and the payoff is a top-10 U.S. News ranking.

Indonesia · Kemang, Jakarta Selatan

From IB inquiry to Cambridge IGCSE rigour and back to the IB Diploma - a South Jakarta pathway built on cross-pollination.

United Kingdom · Greater London

Sandwiched between Parliament and the Abbey, its Latin prayers and ancient halls send close to half of leavers on to Oxford or Cambridge.

Singapore · Singapore

A 36-acre Woodlands campus with a rainforest classroom and AP breadth, run on an American blueprint with IB rigor at the edges

United States · North Carolina

America's first public residential STEM high school, a Durham model tuition-free program now replicated by eighteen sister schools worldwide.

United Kingdom · Greater London

A slice of American education rooted in St John's Wood, pairing AP rigor with WorkX internships across London.