World's Top Schools, Ranked.

United States · Massachusetts

Founded in 1635, America's first public school still tests every applicant, predating Harvard by more than a year.

Hong Kong · Hong Kong

Founded in 1862, Hong Kong's first government secondary school still runs the world's oldest Anglo-Chinese school magazine.

Hong Kong · Hong Kong

Rebuilt after wartime requisition as a hospital, this Kowloon City boys' school still runs on Lasallian discipline and DSE top-scorers.

United Kingdom · Kent

A boys' grammar with a co-educational sixth form, where music and mathematics specialisms sharpen a steady flow of leavers into Oxbridge

United States · New York

The only tuition-free Jesuit high school in America, drawing scholarship boys from across New York for a merit-based education.

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 · 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 · Greater London

In Sutton, a selective boys' grammar where Year 8 pupils tackle politics and civilisations years before GCSEs begin.

Australia · Western Australia

Founded in 1911 as WA's first government high school, this Subiaco campus admits students solely through a competitive entrance exam.

Singapore · Singapore

Opened in 1969 as Singapore's first junior college, pairing a six-year integrated pathway with its pioneering Art Elective Programme.

France · Île-de-France

Grew from a NATO garrison school into the cradle of the OIB, where fourteen national sections share one French core.

Singapore · Singapore

Singapore's first bilingual junior college, threading a straight six-year Integrated Programme route through the century-old Anglo-Chinese Methodist lineage in Dover

Netherlands · South Holland

Rotterdam's 1328 categoriaal gymnasium — secondary-only, classics-steeped, and unapologetically academic.

Netherlands · North Holland

Latin and Greek still anchor the timetable inside a neoclassical 1885 monument facing Paradiso on the Weteringschans.

France · Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

France's largest classes preparatoires campus, drawing 14,000 applicants a year to 31 divisions feeding the grandes ecoles

United Kingdom · Berkshire

Born from a 1624 merchant's bequest, this selective girls' grammar in central Reading ranks among the nation's top state performers for pupil progress.

Hong Kong · Hong Kong

Hong Kong's first Catholic boys' school, teaching Labour and Virtue from a declared-monument campus on Kennedy Road since 1875.

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.

United States · Arizona

Where compulsory Advanced Placement from ninth grade fuels a No. 2 national STEM ranking and a 2024 Blue Ribbon distinction.

Netherlands · North Holland

Set in a landmark 1930s Amsterdam School building, this classics gymnasium consistently posts some of the Netherlands' top final-exam results.

United Kingdom · Europe

Orpington’s 1571 boys’ grammar with co-ed sixth form

Netherlands · North Holland

The Netherlands' oldest lyceum, its landmark Amsterdam School building sends every class to a century-old forest retreat each year.

Netherlands · Utrecht

Founded in 1474 as a Latin school, this Utrecht gymnasium still pairs Greek and Latin with robotics and philosophy.

France · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

In Sophia Antipolis's tech park, five language sections converge around the OIB, feeding a boarding lycee's grandes ecoles prep classes.

South Africa · Western Cape

Below Table Mountain, this 1897 Cape day school helps keep alive the country's longest-running interschool athletics meet, since 1934.

South Africa · Gauteng

A public school on Waterkloof ridge stacking IEB Further Studies certificates atop the national curriculum for its top mathematicians.

United Kingdom · Europe

Kingston upon Thames’ selective girls’ school since 1880

South Africa · Gauteng

A national monument since 1997, this Arcadia institution has paired public-school scale with IEB rigor since 1902.

Netherlands · South Holland

Founded in 1954 by Wassenaar parents seeking a Catholic school, pairing gymnasium rigor with sport, art and world-focused talent tracks.

United States · Arizona

A tuition-free charter in the Sonoran Desert where fifth graders begin Latin and seniors must sit six AP exams by design.

United Kingdom · Europe

Selective girls’ grammar with a multilingual Sutton intake

South Africa · Western Cape

A public school beneath Table Mountain that outscores most private rivals, topping the province in 2025 matric results.

United Kingdom · Surrey

On the grounds of Henry VIII's lost palace, a selective grammar posts near-perfect GCSE results in science and languages

United Kingdom · Greater London

A 1899 south London boys' grammar where Olympiad-trained mathematicians and 2,000 annual 11+ hopefuls chase 150 places.

France · Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Born from Interpol's arrival in Lyon, its serpentine glass campus on the Rhone teaches baccalaureate students in nine mother tongues.

United Kingdom · Greater London

Six girls compete for every Year 7 place at this Orpington grammar, where near-perfect GCSE grades meet an Oxford-linked sixth form.

United Kingdom · Hertfordshire

Founded in 1704 as a charity school, now a partially selective state academy whose A-level results rival the fee-paying sector