The Rising Stars 400, ranked.

United Kingdom · West Yorkshire

Where a 1552 boys' grammar school and an 1876 girls' high school fused into one diamond-model campus across 140 Yorkshire acres

Canada · Ontario

Toronto’s Basilian Catholic boys’ school with a storied hockey tradition

Hong Kong · Hong Kong

ESF’s New Territories secondary school with Explorer Week

Switzerland · Vaud

The only IB World School in the Lausanne area running the full PYP-MYP-Diploma continuum, its campus tending beehives alongside a community garden.

France · Île-de-France

In Montparnasse since 1804, this Catholic day school channels rigorous bac prep straight into France's grandes ecoles pipeline.

Japan · Kanagawa Prefecture

Founded in 1958 by French Catholic brothers, this all-boys Yokohama school pairs academic rigor with its historic gentlemen's code.

China · Beijing

Every classroom pairs a Western and a Chinese teacher, threading bilingual learning through a parkland Chaoyang campus.

China · Beijing

Founded by Chinese educators as the country's first homegrown bilingual brand, weaving national curriculum through a full IB continuum.

France · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

A pine-forest campus inside the Sophia Antipolis tech park, delivering British IGCSEs and A-Levels since 1964.

Japan · Tokyo

An all-girls Catholic day school in Setagaya that became Japan's first to offer the IB Diploma, now a full IB continuum from K to 12.

United Kingdom · Greater London

In Shirley Park, a Steinway-filled music school whose choir is the only one asked back to the BBC Proms year after year.

United States · Pennsylvania

Founded in 1869 as one of the nation's first schools devoted solely to girls, now rooted on a Main Line campus outside Philadelphia.

India · Maharashtra

After eight decades as a boys-only Jesuit institution in Fort, this ICSE stalwart admitted girls and adopted the Cambridge IGCSE in 2025.

United Kingdom · Bedfordshire

Pioneering since 1882, girls here follow the IB from Primary Years to Diploma on a riverside campus beside the Great Ouse.

Jordan · Madaba Governorate

On the hills of Madaba, a Deerfield-inspired boarding school built around Harkness-table classrooms and a multi-faith spiritual center.

Ireland · County Dublin

First in Ireland to gain IB Diploma authorisation, this interdenominational Booterstown day school still hosts its own Model UN each Easter.

France · Île-de-France

Founded by Alsatian refugees in 1874, a Left Bank laboratory for secular, progressive pedagogy that shaped France's republican school system.

Vietnam · Ho Chi Minh City

Born in 1927 as Petrus Ky, this Saigon academy now out-medals every rival school at Vietnam's national science olympiads.

China · Jiangsu

China's first full IB Continuum school, running Pre-K through Diploma from a non-profit campus in Nanjing's university district since 1992.

China · Jiangsu

In Suzhou's canal district, a century-old house tradition underpins an IB programme ranked among China's best

Tanzania · Masaki + Msasani

Named for a country that no longer exists, this 1963-founded Dar es Salaam day school runs the full IB continuum across two peninsula campuses.

Lebanon · Beirut Governorate

Founded in 1905 by AUB faculty, this Corniche campus blends IB and American diplomas around Harkness-style seminar tables.

Spain · Andalusia

On Andalusia's polo-and-golf coast, a full IB pathway pairs academic rigor with an elite student-athlete program.

Australia · South Australia

A Duke laid its 1867 foundation stone; today this Adelaide college ships Year 9 boys to riverside and peninsula campuses for a term outdoors.

India · Uttarakhand

Founded in 1957 as a bold counterpart to boys-only boarding, with bird-named houses and a legacy museum honoring the women who dared.

South Africa · Gauteng

Founded in 1903 by two Cambridge-educated pioneers, this all-girls boarding school still occupies its original Herbert Baker campus in Parktown.

United States · Rhode Island

On a hilltop above Newport, students trade desks for the deck of Geronimo, studying oceanography under sail.

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 States · Pennsylvania

Founded four years before the Constitution, this Main Line day school pairs colonial pedigree with a 123-acre campus built for elite athletics.

United States · New York

Rooted in Felix Adler's 1878 Ethical Culture movement, its wooded Riverdale hilltop campus still anchors progressive American pedagogy.

Vietnam · Hanoi

Born of a 1972 Amsterdam solidarity gift, this Hanoi lakeside academy for the gifted keeps stacking science Olympiad medals.

Brazil · Minas Gerais

Born from a 2000 ITA/IME prep course, its Lourdes unit still anchors Belo Horizonte's Enem front-runners.

China · Zhejiang

The city's first international school delivers a full IB continuum with daily Mandarin study on its purpose-built 2022 campus.

China · Beijing

Six centuries-old Harrow houses transplanted to Chaoyang, anchored by China's largest LAMDA drama centre and a British A-Level core.

United Kingdom · Moray

On Scotland's Moray coast, birthplace of Outward Bound, where sail training aboard the school's own ocean-going yacht counts as curriculum.

Germany · Bavaria

Set in a centuries-old castle north of Munich, the only German school running the IB's full continuum, age three to diploma.

China · Beijing

New Brunswick's curriculum threads through a full IB continuum, dual diplomas earned steps from Beijing's embassy row.

Germany · Brandenburg

Set on a forested campus between Berlin and Potsdam, this day school runs the full IB continuum for students from 60-plus nations.

Bahrain · Bahrain

In Hamala, a five-year run atop Bahrain's A-level tables, powered by a campus of 90-plus nationalities.

United Arab Emirates · Dubai

Non-selective by design in Al Safa, where a rare grass playing field and a house-led Arts Day rival exam season for school pride.

United States · Florida

On a lakefront campus in downtown Orlando, Central Florida's largest day school pairs student researchers with real science mentors.

United States · Texas

Founded in 1950 as Dallas's first co-ed, non-denominational K-12 school, blending AP rigor with hands-on Design and Innovation study.

Hong Kong · Hong Kong

Perched above Tolo Harbour, this United World College gathers scholars from 90 nations for a service-driven IB Diploma.

Italy · Lombardy

South of Milan, the city's first IB World School pairs an American diploma with seven decades of international pedigree.

Mexico · Zapopan

Founded in 1908, a bilingual Jalisco campus pairing UNAM-certified diplomas with U.S. accreditation and a LEED Gold campus.

Japan · Osaka Prefecture

Japan's first full IB continuum, taught alongside a Japanese sister school on one shared Minoh campus

Netherlands · South Holland

In the Kijkduin dunes, this IB day school runs MUNISH, Europe's second-largest student Model UN conference.

Germany · Hamburg

Germany's first international school since 1957, still the only CIS-accredited IB continuum campus in the port city of Hamburg.

New Zealand · Auckland

New Zealand's largest boys' school, where a fiercely guarded Epsom enrolment zone and a long Rhodes Scholar lineage shape the Grammar way.

Pakistan · Punjab

On a 200-acre Mall Road campus, a Cambridge school since 1935 still trains boys across polo fields and seventeen boarding houses.

Oman · Muscat Governorate

A Royal Charter granted by Sultan Qaboos underwrites five decades of not-for-profit British schooling on Muscat's coast.

Australia · Victoria

A bayside Anglican day school where APS sporting pedigree meets a purpose-built 'Positive Masculinity' curriculum for boys.

Australia · Western Australia

Since 1858, Western Australia's oldest independent boys' school blends a 48-hectare coastal campus with a top-five WA ATAR record.

United States · Maryland

A 1923 Sacred Heart foundation on a 35-acre Bethesda campus, where the Social Action Program ties faith and academics to real-world service.

United Arab Emirates · Dubai

Rooted in 1977 as a school for Jebel Ali Port's workers' children, now an all-through Damac Hills campus with a top BSO inspection mark.

New Zealand · Waikato

Home of Champions' Cambridge campus: the only Central North Island school offering the IB Diploma, complete with its own dairy farm.

United Kingdom · Greater London

A Grade I-listed royal hunting lodge in Richmond Park doubles as classroom and studio for GCSE-age dancers admitted on talent alone.

China · Guangdong

Shenzhen's oldest international school, pairing IB inquiry and American rigor with a French Ministry-accredited pathway.

Canada · Ontario

First English-speaking school in Canada certified for the full IB continuum, JK to Grade 12, on midtown Toronto's Yonge Street corridor.

United Kingdom · Lancashire

Britain's oldest Jesuit school pairs a working 1866 observatory with a Shakespeare First Folio on a 1,000-acre Lancashire estate.

United States · District of Columbia

Founded in 1799 on a working Georgetown convent campus, the nation's oldest Catholic school for girls still runs on Salesian rigor.

India · Madhya Pradesh

Storied boys' boarding school inside Gwalior Fort, delivering a CBSE curriculum with a British public-school ethos.

Pakistan · Sindh

From a chaplain's kitchen in 1847 to South Asia's second-oldest private school, run on Frere, Napier, Papworth and Streeton house lines.

China · Shanghai

A Baoshan boarding school where SJTU co-runs an elite talent-training base and student robotics squads chase world titles.

China · Guangdong

Lakeside in Baiyun since 1998, running Guangzhou's only full IB continuum, with most graduates earning bilingual diplomas.

Australia · Queensland

Beside the Nerang River, the Gold Coast's only boys' school pairs a storied rowing boatshed with Queensland's largest boarding house.

United Arab Emirates · Dubai

One of just two UAE schools authorised for all four IB programmes, from Reggio-inspired nursery to Diploma finals.

United States · North Carolina

At the nation's first public arts conservatory, teenage dancers train daily alongside college company members bound for professional stages.

United Kingdom · Europe

A 1652 south-east London day school with rare green space

China · Shanghai

Heir to an 1865 mandarin academy in Xuhui, it grooms its own Math Olympiad squad and will host the 2026 IMO

Australia · New South Wales

On Sydney's Upper North Shore, a fully selective girls' school pairs top-ten HSC results with a Positive Education approach to resilience.

United Arab Emirates · Dubai

Anchored in Dubai's car-free Sustainable City, this full IB continuum campus turns bio-domes and solar power into daily lessons.

France · Île-de-France

A US diploma and AP track unfold inside a 1929 French convent school on a 16th-century chateau estate, 35 minutes from Paris.

Japan · Tokyo

On a Meiji-era Moto-Azabu estate since 1949, an American K-9 curriculum paired with mandatory daily Japanese lessons

South Korea · Yongsan-gu

Its Guardians mascot honors Admiral Yi Sun-sin, anchoring an American, faith-rooted curriculum in Itaewon's fifty-nation community.

Singapore · Singapore

Singapore's first Catholic school, founded in 1852 by the De La Salle Brothers, now runs parallel O-Level and IB diploma tracks.

United Arab Emirates · Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi's original full IB continuum campus, carrying students from PYP through Diploma since 2006.

United Kingdom · Bristol

Founded in 1862 to champion science and equality over classics, its house system still shapes life on this Bristol clifftop campus.

United Kingdom · Devon

Ten day houses, recently renamed for Devon's landscape, sit on a 25-acre campus built by Butterfield in 1880.

United Kingdom · Shropshire

Curled inside a loop of the River Severn, twelve boarding houses keep alive a rowing tradition dating to 1866.

China · Beijing

In Beijing's Central Business District, a full IB continuum pairs with IDEATE, an in-house project-based track alongside the diploma years.

Singapore · Singapore

On a Bukit Batok campus centred round a working pipe organ and a net-zero Greenhouse, British rigour meets IB breadth.

Oman · Muscat Governorate

Royally chartered in 1977, this Muscat day school fuses British academics with Arabic and Islamic studies to mould future Omani leaders.

Finland · Uusimaa

Founded in 1945 by American Catholic nuns, it pioneered Finland's bilingual English-Finnish schooling model.

Chile · Región Metropolitana de Santiago

From an 1880 Methodist girls' boarding school to Chile's first IB pioneer, now coeducational in the Andean foothills.

United Kingdom · Devon

Endowed in 1604 by a Tiverton wool merchant, this Exe Valley campus was drilling rugby scrums as early as 1868.

United States · District of Columbia

Since 1821, the oldest boys' school in the nation's capital has paired Jesuit rigor with a campus steps from Capitol Hill.

United Kingdom · West Sussex

On a 140-acre Gothic Revival campus below the South Downs, a Shakespeare society older than the RSC still takes the stage every year

New Zealand · Auckland

On a Tamaki Estuary campus, this Presbyterian day-and-boarding school teaches boys and girls in parallel classrooms before NCEA unites them

China · Shanghai

A 1963 state-founded language academy in Hongkou, teaching ten tongues from Arabic to Hebrew to shape China's future diplomats.

United Kingdom · Somerset

Rooted in a 1606 Benedictine exile from Douai, four centuries of monastic scholarship shape this Somerset campus.

Australia · New South Wales

A fully selective North Shore powerhouse where rigorous HSC results run alongside a music program that tours internationally.

Australia · Victoria

Since 1875, one of Australia's earliest girls' schools, now running VCE alongside an IB Diploma pathway from its Burwood campus.

Lebanon · Beirut Governorate

Tracing its roots to 1891 Smyrna, this Beirut day school pairs AUB-adjacent tradition with trilingual American and IB tracks.

South Africa · Free State

Since 1855, this parallel-medium Free State boarding school has produced more Springboks than any other in South Africa.

United States · Massachusetts

A Natick boarding campus where company-level pointe work shares the daily timetable with a full college-prep diploma

South Korea · Daegu

A nationwide boarding magnet for young scientists, running a research-centered curriculum since its 2011 shift to gifted-academy status.