Candidate Schools, on the watchlist.

Chile · Reñaca

Founded by Scots in 1857 as Chile's first British school, where football took root and rugby still shapes character on the Renaca coast

United Kingdom · Leicestershire

Founded to replace Leicester's lost grammar schools, it still opens every pupil's timetable with compulsory Latin from Year 7.

United Kingdom · Somerset

Since 1837, this Somerset school has topped the county's A-Level tables and once trained Olympians bound for London 2012.

United Arab Emirates · Dubai

From Festival City, a not-for-profit campus threads the English curriculum into twin IB pathways -- Diploma and BTEC-linked Career routes.

Poland

Australia · Queensland

Founded in 1891 as Queensland's first purpose-built Catholic boarding college, its Boondall campus still spans working farmland and wetlands.

Panama · Panamá

Panama's only school delivering the full IB continuum in English, teaching PYP through Diploma from a Green Valley campus.

Dominican Republic · Santo Domingo

Founded in 1933 by a missionary's wife, this Mirador Park campus still sends nearly all its graduates to US and European universities.

United States · District of Columbia

Small, discussion-driven classes in a Foxhall Road mansion built around Field's founding creed of self-discovery over rote memorization.

United Arab Emirates · Dubai

Tucked in The Greens, a British day school where Positive Education sits alongside GCSEs as core curriculum, not an add-on.

Netherlands · Overijssel

A moated 1715 castle that once sheltered Jewish refugee children now anchors an IB boarding community of 25-plus nationalities.

Hungary

United States · Maryland

Founded in 1828 as the nation's first Black Catholic school, now fielding a No. 1-ranked football dynasty in East Baltimore.

Netherlands · Flevoland

A full IB continuum, ages two to eighteen, on one shared campus in the Netherlands' fastest-growing city

Germany · Berlin

Born from the Bonn-to-Berlin embassy move, blending IB inquiry with Germany's own Rahmenlehrplan in the heart of the capital.

Singapore · Singapore

Set beside Singapore's only tropical rainforest, a non-selective full IB continuum runs through a close-knit, village-like community.

Germany · Bavaria

In leafy Bogenhausen, the Bavarian Abitur runs alongside the IB Diploma, every class co-taught by native German and English staff.

China · Shanghai

Since 1993, paired Chinese and English co-teachers lead every classroom, carrying bilingual immersion from nursery through the IB diploma.

Italy

India · Maharashtra

One Juhu campus, three exam boards - ICSE, IB and Cambridge sit side by side under a single Vile Parle roof

Germany · Bremen

On Bremen University's campus, Germany's only MINT-EC STEM-network school pairs IB rigor with hands-on science and engineering.

Cyprus · Nicosia District

First in Cyprus to embed STEM schoolwide, this Nicosia day school blends Cambridge A Levels with the Apolytirion.

United Kingdom · Surrey

Born in 1865 to educate Surrey's farming families, now a 280-acre campus where 'culture breeds strength' still shapes the timetable.

Hong Kong · Hong Kong

The only school outside Canada awarding both the IB Diploma and Ontario's OSSD, docked on Hong Kong Island's south side in Aberdeen.

United Arab Emirates · Abu Dhabi

In Mussaffah, this Cambridge pilot school holds Abu Dhabi's top ADEK rating at a fraction of premium British-school fees.

United Kingdom · Surrey

Born as a Victorian charity for doctors' orphans, its Surrey campus by the Downs still holds unbroken royal patronage.

United Kingdom · Dorset

Housed in a High Victorian Alfred Waterhouse mansion on 62 Dorset acres, design and technology run through the curriculum from prep to A-level.

China · Beijing

Behind air-filtered domes sits Beijing's longest-running British campus, pairing an MIT-built STEAM centre with a Juilliard performing arts partnership.

Thailand · Bangkok

Royal-founded historic Thai boarding school modelled on English public schools; strong prestige and alumni depth.

Portugal

Poland · Masovian Voivodeship

Nord Anglia's founding school pairs MIT-designed STEAM labs with a Juilliard-led music programme on the banks of the Vistula.

United States · Massachusetts

Founded in 1881 as Wellesley College's feeder school, this all-girls campus pairs AP rigor with a decades-old equestrian tradition.

United Arab Emirates · Dubai

In Motor City, a working school farm and Forest School classrooms bring the British curriculum outdoors from Foundation Stage onward.

United Arab Emirates · Dubai

British curriculum meets Gulf identity: houses named Dhow, Falcon, Khanjar and Camel anchor this Dubailand campus's decade-long climb to a Good rating.

Thailand · Bangkok

Since 1957, a Redemptorist Catholic ethos in eastern Bangkok backs a hybrid diploma blending IB, AP and American coursework.

United Kingdom · Edinburgh

A merchant's 18th-century bequest built Scotland's largest co-educational day school on one 52-acre Merchiston campus.

United Arab Emirates · Dubai

An Acer Showcase School in Mirdif, where AI-enhanced classrooms and STEAM+ labs anchor a British-curriculum community of eighty-plus nationalities.

United States · New York

In the Hudson Valley, students run the only AZA-accredited zoo on any American high school campus.

Singapore · Singapore

A three-school merger reborn in Bishan as Singapore's first high-rise junior college, pairing bicultural studies with 'beautiful thinking'.

United Arab Emirates · Abu Dhabi

From Reggio Emilia early years through IGCSEs to both the IB Diploma and Career-related routes, strong multiple pathways underpin this well regarded school.

United Arab Emirates · Dubai

Steps from Dubai Creek's old quarter, this Baccalaureate campus weaves an American section into its French core.

Tunisia · La Marsa

In Tunis since 1959, this American day school holds a singular distinction: the only IB World School in Tunisia.

Ecuador · Pichincha

High above Quito at 2,850 meters, this campus became Ecuador's first IB Diploma school back in 1982.

Malta · Malta

American college-prep classes unfold within the ramparts of a 19th-century hexagonal fort on Malta's coast.

Switzerland · Vaud

Founded in 1927 by two Oxford graduates on the shores of Lake Geneva, pairing British rigor with IB ambition.

United Kingdom · West Sussex

A Gothic Revival chapel dubbed the 'Cathedral of the Downs' crowns this school perched on the South Downs skyline.

United Kingdom · Bedfordshire

On the River Great Ouse since 1861, a boat club anchors this Harpur Trust boys' school's centuries-old academic tradition.

United Kingdom · Worcestershire

Beneath the Malvern Hills, a campus that once housed wartime radar research has produced four Nobel Prize winners.

China · Zhejiang

Houses named for the Duke of Wellington's generals anchor a British curriculum amid Hangzhou's tech-driven skyline.

Canada · Alberta

Classrooms embedded inside WinSport's Olympic Park let student-athletes train by day and study around competition travel by design

United Kingdom · Greater Manchester

Set on a medieval site by Manchester Cathedral, entry here turns on musical audition, not fees, at the north's only specialist music school.

Ireland · County Limerick

Boys are schooled by Benedictine monks inside a Norman-Revival castle on a 500-acre working estate in Limerick

Hong Kong · Hong Kong

Hong Kong's oldest international school, tracing to 1894, fields IB rigor across a rare 10-acre Ho Man Tin campus.

South Africa · Western Cape

Founded in 1868 at the foot of Paarl Mountain, this bilingual 'Brotherhood of the Blue Blazer' blends academic merit-list form with a rugby derby that fills stadiums.

Denmark · Capital Region of Denmark

Denmark's oldest international school, pairing Catholic roots with the British National Curriculum amid Hellerup's parkland campus.

Philippines · Metro Manila

A century-old Catholic school for girls in Loyola Heights, pairing liberal arts with pioneering gender and peace studies programmes.

Switzerland · Vaud

A Dominican-founded lakeside campus above Lake Geneva, where boarders choose between IB, French Bac and Swiss Maturite tracks.

United States · Maryland

Since 1894, this all-girls Baltimore campus has paired college-prep rigor with hands-on leadership and STEM institutes.

Switzerland · Zurich

On Lake Zurich's shore, a 1963-founded day school pairs American diplomas and the IB with a bilingual German-English track from age three.

United States · Massachusetts

Upperclassmen trade study halls for Boston University lecture halls, banking college credit before graduation.

United Arab Emirates · Abu Dhabi

Massachusetts Common Core meets a UAE Armed Forces leadership programme, forging Emirati identity into an American diploma.

Thailand · Bangkok

Founded on temple grounds by royal decree in 1885, this Bangkok boys' school still fields one of Thailand's oldest football rivalries.

Thailand · Rayong

In Rayong's PTT-backed Wang Chan Valley research park, full scholarships fund a boarding school that admits 70 of 5,000 STEM applicants.

Qatar · Qatar

Inside Doha's Aspire Zone, scholarship footballers and track athletes pair IGCSE study with Olympic-grade sports science labs

Japan · Fukuoka Prefecture

Kyushu's only Pre-K-12 international campus runs the full IB continuum from a Momochi site along the Muromi River

Sweden · Skåne County

Traced to a 1980s Australian submarine contract, this Malmo school became Sweden's first IB Middle Years authoriser.

Thailand · Chang Klan

Founded by returning missionaries in 1954, this Ping River campus was Thailand's first international school outside Bangkok.

Panama · Panamá Province

Rooted in Canal Zone teaching lineage, this Ciudad del Saber day school pairs a dual US-Panamanian diploma with the country's deepest Advanced Placement slate.

Thailand · Mae Rim

On a 100-acre farm and forest campus in the Mae Rim foothills, the first school in Southeast Asia to run all four IB programmes

Nigeria · Anthony / Lekki

Grown from a three-pupil Montessori nursery in 1985 into a three-campus pathway through IGCSE to the IB Diploma.

India · Assam

Set inside a working tea estate in Sonitpur, this co-ed boarder carries the Williamson Magor legacy into North-East India's only pan-Indian residential school.

Singapore · Singapore

Full IB continuum across two campuses, where Chinese and French immersion pathways send a fifth of graduates to a Bilingual Diploma

India · Delhi

Founded by civil servants' wives for transferred officers' children, this Chanakyapuri campus now blends CBSE rigor with the IB Diploma.

China · Shanghai

In Huacao's expat quarter, British curriculum runs through IB alongside a fully integrated Dutch school and UNICEF-linked sustainability projects.

United Arab Emirates · Dubai

Named for aviation pioneer Jean Mermoz, this AEFE campus caps classes at 26 across trilingual French, English and Arabic tracks.

United States · California

California's first lay-founded Catholic high school, pairing five professional magnet tracks with Trinity League athletic firepower.

Germany · Baden-Württemberg

A ballet academy where daily company class runs alongside the Abitur, its graduates filling the ranks of the Stuttgart Ballet

United Kingdom · Suffolk

Set within 480 acres of Repton-landscaped Suffolk parkland around an 18th-century mansion, home to specialist tennis and golf academies.

Thailand · Bangkok

Since 1920, this all-boys Catholic institution in Dusit has paired an intensive English programme with famously narrow admission odds.

United States

Taiwan · Taipei

A former US military school turned Catholic-run American curriculum campus, offering 18 AP courses in Taipei's Zhongshan district.

Hong Kong · Hong Kong

Hong Kong's first IB World School, running dual French Baccalaureat and Diploma tracks from a hillside campus above Causeway Bay.

United Kingdom · Dorset

Weekly one-to-one tutorials descended from the Dalton Plan shape learning inside a Grade I Norman Shaw mansion above the River Stour.

United Arab Emirates · Abu Dhabi

Tucked into Khalifa City's Al Raha Gardens, a STEAM-driven British curriculum has earned one of only nine ADEK Outstanding ratings city-wide.

Canada · Alberta

A 220-acre foothills campus anchors Alberta's only K-12 continuum IB day school

United Kingdom · Surrey

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

Canada · British Columbia

On Vancouver Island, a AP pioneer school pairs Canadian, IB and American pathways with its own rowing centre on the Gorge Waterway.

United Kingdom · Berkshire

Rooted in Charles Darwin's former home, now a 110-acre Berkshire estate where science thrives and Oxbridge ambition runs deep.

United Kingdom · Greater London

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

United States · California

Holy Cross brothers built this San Fernando Valley campus in 1947, pairing Blue Ribbon academics with a storied multi-sport tradition.

United Arab Emirates · Abu Dhabi

Alberta's inquiry-based Program of Studies pairs with AP courses here, a rare Canadian-to-US pathway from a Khalifa City campus.

South Korea · Gyeonggi Province

One of Korea's first schools authorized for the full IB continuum, pairing American-rooted rigor with a faith-based ethos on a Suwon hillside campus.

Singapore · Singapore

IB, AP, and BTEC pathways converge under one US-accredited diploma, with rooftop sports fields crowning this Woodleigh campus.

Switzerland · Zurich

Since 1960, the sole Zurich school carrying students through the full IB continuum, from a Zumikon hillside campus above the lake.

South Africa · KwaZulu-Natal

Perched above the Valley of a Thousand Hills, a Methodist boys' school whose choir has claimed world titles and mathletes lead KZN.

United States

Ecuador · Pichincha

Founded by Ecuador's Jewish community in 1973, its full IB continuum now unfolds on a Harvard-advised Puembo campus.