The Rising Stars 400, ranked.

United States · California

Along equestrian trails in the San Fernando Valley foothills, a liberal-arts day school fields 76 varsity teams.

Poland

Hong Kong · Hong Kong

A crescent-shaped Tuen Mun campus, modelled on Bath's Royal Crescent, houses Hong Kong's only formal weekly boarding and house system.

United Kingdom · East Lothian

Scotland's oldest boarding school pairs a 14th-century Pinkie House tower with a new University of Edinburgh golf programme.

Hong Kong · Hong Kong

Sai Kung's Gold BEAM Plus campus, global host of the Global Citizen Diploma, makes sustainability part of the IB continuum.

South Africa · Western Cape

Set against the Constantia winelands, this day school pairs IEB rigor with Cambridge flexibility and a 100 percent matric pass rate.

Switzerland · Geneva

Founded in 1903 near Geneva, this campus runs French, British and bilingual tracks side by side into the IB diploma.

Mexico · Mexico City

Founded in 1888, the oldest continuously operating American school outside the U.S., blending IB rigor with bilingual roots in Mexico City.

Morocco · Bourgogne

Named for France's first resident-general, this Casablanca lycee is the AEFE network's second-largest school worldwide

Mexico · San Pedro Garza García

Since 1928, Monterrey's oldest American-style school pairs a U.S. diploma track with the Mexican bachillerato near Huasteca Canyon.

Peru · Lima

Named for a wartime American president, this La Molina campus layers an FDR diploma with IB and Peru's own official credential.

Canada · Ontario

Founded in 1867 in Forest Hill, this Anglican school remains Canada's oldest continuously operating girls' day and boarding institution.

South Africa · Gauteng

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

Oman · Muscat Governorate

Oman's sole American-curriculum school, pairing AP coursework with a hands-on Discover Oman outdoor learning program.

Philippines · Laguna

Tracing its lineage to a 1909 Episcopal mission school, this Laguna campus has run the IB Diploma since 1986.

South Africa · Waverley

Johannesburg's oldest girls' school, born in the 1888 gold rush, still averaging four matric distinctions per pupil.

United States · North Carolina

Named for Boston Latin's liberal-arts tradition, this 128-acre Charlotte campus pioneered Raspberry Pi and Oculus Rift classrooms.

Switzerland · Zug

A 17th-century manor anchors the full IB continuum here, with its own alpine outdoor campus tucked away in Wengen

United Kingdom · Europe

Kingston upon Thames’ selective girls’ school since 1880

United Arab Emirates · Dubai

From underdog to top-rated in a decade, this Jumeirah Park campus built its identity on performing arts and tight-knit house spirit.

United Kingdom · Northamptonshire

Boarding houses woven into a historic market town, and an engineering centre that 3D-prints titanium and carbon fibre.

United Arab Emirates · Dubai

Four centuries of Derbyshire heritage meet Nad Al Sheba boarding houses, backed by over a decade of top-tier KHDA inspections.

Malaysia · Negeri Sembilan

The lone Asian sister campus of a 170-year-old Surrey boarding school, its British house system anchors a 50-acre Negeri Sembilan estate.

Canada · British Columbia

On a 270-acre Vancouver Island campus, ten boarding houses hold Canada's largest full-time boarding community, a tradition since 1916.

United Kingdom · Somerset

Sixty-plus sports and an Olympic-length pool anchor a 240-acre Somerset campus built for athletes and scholars alike.

United Kingdom · Surrey

In the Surrey Hills, a sixth-form-only campus mounts 40 productions a year and still teaches filmmaking on 16mm.

China · Beijing

In Haidian's academic engine room, a 2011 reform scrapped fixed classes for build-your-own timetables of 300-plus electives.

Switzerland · Basel-Landschaft

Basel's only full-continuum IB school, where 2025 Diploma candidates outpaced the world average pass rate, 96.6% to 80%.

United Arab Emirates · Sharjah

Founded in 1974 by British bankers inside a Sharjah fort, this not-for-profit pioneer marked its 50th year with a time capsule.

Canada · Ontario

Canada's only Quaker-founded school pairs a bespoke Global Leadership Diploma with its own student-run campus radio station.

Germany · Bavaria

Munich's bilingual, all-day route to the German Abitur (with an optional IB Diploma track) and close-knit class sizes.

Italy · Lombardy

Since 1969, the only Milan school rated Excellent by UK inspectors, pairing IGCSE rigor with a close-knit IB Sixth Form.

South Africa · Eastern Cape

Since 1874, a Grahamstown sisterhood sharing Grade 10 classrooms with St Andrew's College in the City of Saints.

Japan · Tokyo

A Heatherwick-designed Azabudai Hills campus anchors Japan's only full English National Curriculum, steps from Tokyo Tower.

Mexico · Xochimilco + Lomas Verdes

Founded in 1894 and now the largest German school outside Germany, running a trilingual Abitur across three Mexico City campuses

United Kingdom · Warwickshire

Founded in 914 beside Warwick Castle, this Midlands day school built its name on sport and hard-edged academic results.

Indonesia · Bali

A walless bamboo campus on the Ayung River where IB study runs alongside rice cultivation and river ecology

Spain · Catalonia

An intimate Sitges campus for the early years, delivering the English National Curriculum minutes from the beach.

Zimbabwe · Avondale

Jesuit since 1896, this Harare college pairs British curriculum rigor with forty hectares beside the Botanical Gardens.

India · Tamil Nadu

Born of a 1995 US-India accord, this Taramani campus blends AP and IB rigor with the world's first K-12 LEED Platinum campus

Canada · Ontario

Century-old Anglican girls’ school under one Toronto roof

Australia · Victoria

Where Melbourne classrooms, a Yarra Junction farm, and a Nanjing campus shape an IB-VCE education built on outdoor and overseas immersion.

United Kingdom · Surrey

A Surrey clergy foundation since 1851 built around a house system pupils call 'the best thing', paired with the country's most flexible boarding model.

United States · Massachusetts

On 456 acres of former Byfield farmland, a 1763 charter has kept New England's oldest boarding school running ever since.

China · Shanghai

Mandarin-English immersion anchors an IB and IGCSE track, with senior boarders housed in a Tudor-style village in Songjiang.

United Arab Emirates · Dubai

Set inside Dubai Silicon Oasis's tech park, this all-through school pairs IB and British pathways with a dedicated performing arts centre.

Brazil · Rio Grande do Sul

Cradle of PUCRS, this 120-year-old Independencia campus keeps landing among Porto Alegre's top ENEM performers.

India · Delhi

A 1955 progressive-education pioneer whose 'world is one family' motto powers a student-run literacy drive across Delhi since 1989.

Saudi Arabia · Makkah Province

Founded in 1967 as the region's first British school, blending Cambridge rigor with a not-for-profit, fifty-nation community ethos.

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.

Singapore · Singapore

Singapore's first government Chinese secondary school, still pairing Special Assistance Plan bilingualism with a six-year Integrated Programme

United States · North Carolina

North Carolina's first IB Diploma Program anchors a two-campus Charlotte day school with 143 state athletic titles.

United Kingdom · Monmouthshire

Ending 400 years as separate boys' and girls' schools, this Wye Valley foundation reopened in 2024 as one fully coeducational campus.

South Africa · Gauteng

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

United States · Florida

Nearing its Miami centennial, this Raiders campus pairs AP rigor with a sports program boasting 69 state titles since 1990.

Saudi Arabia · Makkah Province

Set inside a Red Sea research university campus, this IB continuum school pairs inquiry-based learning with a working scientific community.

United Arab Emirates · Abu Dhabi

Where American Common Core meets IB inquiry, having pioneered the UAE's first IB Diploma classroom back in the 1990s

United Arab Emirates · Abu Dhabi

A purpose-built Al Reem Island campus pairs IB inquiry with England's National Curriculum, IGCSEs folded into the MYP.

India · Uttarakhand

Since 1869, a Gothic-arched campus above Nainital Lake where houses named for Robin Hood's band shape ICSE scholars and athletes.

Bahrain · Bahrain

A 1961 Gulf pioneer pairing A-Levels and the IB Diploma with a Steven Gerrard-backed football academy

Spain · Catalonia

A 1962-founded trilingual pioneer near Barcelona blending an American diploma track with the IB Diploma and Career-related pathways.

Argentina · Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires

Argentina's first school of commerce, founded in 1890, still issues its diplomas straight from the University of Buenos Aires.

New Zealand · Canterbury

New Zealand's oldest independent school, its neo-Gothic quadrangle and chapel choir anchoring a boys' boarding tradition beside Hagley Park.

United Arab Emirates · Dubai

In Dubai Hills, swimmers train at a GEMS Centre of Excellence while KHDA inspectors mark the school just shy of the top band across the board.

Germany · Bavaria

In Erlangen's Nuremberg-area tech corridor, this day school earned full IB Continuum status in 2025, from early years through diploma.

Belgium · Walloon Brabant

In quiet Waterloo, one of the few Belgian schools running the full IB continuum alongside AP, staged in a 400-seat theatre.

Canada · Manitoba

On the Manitoba prairie, a century-old girls' school pairs IB rigor with the province's longest-standing prep hockey program.

United Kingdom · Wiltshire

On Salisbury Plain's edge, an 1895 farm school now sends pupils ocean sailing aboard its own century-old gaff cutter, Jolie Brise.

Saudi Arabia · Al Rawdah

Born in 1952 as a parents' cooperative for Saudia's expat families, now Jeddah's oldest American school pairing AP depth with a new IB track.

United States · Ohio

Since 1831, a Jesuit brotherhood on Cincinnati's west side forges 'Men for Others' through rigorous AP coursework.

United Arab Emirates · Dubai

The only American-curriculum school in Dubai to hold KHDA's Outstanding rating in every inspection since 2011, running US diplomas alongside the IB.

Canada · New Brunswick

A 1877 boys' collegiate and a 1894 girls' school merged into one Kennebecasis River campus of IB rigor and boarding tradition.

Saudi Arabia · Riyadh Province

A Maarif-network day school where American diploma and British A-level tracks run alongside Riyadh's only inter-school Quran competition.

United Arab Emirates · Abu Dhabi

Massachusetts Common Core meets Emirati heritage, holding the sole top ADEK rating among Abu Dhabi's American-curriculum schools.

United Arab Emirates · Dubai

In Jumeirah Village Triangle, a slipstream primary-to-secondary model pairs LAMDA distinctions with Duke of Edinburgh expeditions.

Nigeria · Lagos State

On Victoria Island since 1964, where Shell, ExxonMobil and Chevron reserve seats on the board overseeing dual American-IB diplomas.

Venezuela · Distrito Capital

Since 1937, a US-embassy-linked campus in Las Mercedes pairing American college-prep rigor with an IB diploma and Venezuelan history studies

Greece · Attica

Introduced Greece's first IB Diploma Programme in 1976, pairing American rigor with an Athenian hillside campus.

France · Hauts-de-France

In Lille's affluent Golden Triangle, this bilingual boarding annex of the Paris flagship splits leavers between IB and French Bac tracks.

Japan · Hyogo Prefecture

On a man-made island in Kobe, a century-old boarding tradition dating to 1929 anchors a full IB continuum since 1980.

Qatar · Qatar

Anchored in Education City, this IB continuum school was Qatar's first authorized to run all three Baccalaureate programmes.

United States · Arizona

Tuition-free Tucson charter campus, opened 1998, that just claimed the nation's #1 public high school ranking on AP rigor alone.

United States · California

Founded in 1913 by a woman architect, this all-girls Arroyo Seco campus pairs Caltech research internships with aerospace engineering.

United Kingdom · Europe

Northwood girls’ day school with standout results and 200 clubs

United Kingdom · Oxfordshire

Six miles south of Oxford, a convent-founded girls' day school now topping Abingdon's league table for five years running.

Australia · Queensland

Founded in 1875 by three Irish Christian Brothers, this Spring Hill day school remains a founding pillar of Queensland's GPS competition.

United Kingdom · Europe

Ealing girls’ school with a no either-or ethos

Indonesia · Banten

Indonesia's first IB Diploma madrasah, pairing BJ Habibie's science-and-technology boarding model with pesantren discipline in Serpong

Zimbabwe · Mashonaland East

An Anglican boarding estate near Marondera where a private game reserve doubles as classroom and Sixth Form turns co-educational.

Botswana · Central Gaborone

On the Kalahari's edge, a 1972 experiment in non-racial schooling still requires every student to serve the community each week.

France · Île-de-France

The only UK-government-accredited British School Overseas in France, pairing A-Levels and IB on the Seine west of Paris

Australia · Western Australia

Beside the Swan River since 1896, a heritage boarding school that has produced more Rhodes Scholars than any other in WA.

Indonesia · East Java

The only school in East Java running the full IB continuum, with entrepreneurship woven in from Playgroup to Grade 12.

Hong Kong · Hong Kong

Founded in 1851 on Bonham Road, Hong Kong's oldest continuously run school still sorts Paulines into six tree-named houses.

India · Tamil Nadu

Founded in 1901 at 6,998 feet in the Palani Hills, it became India's first IB school and runs its own 135-acre wilderness campus for outdoor learning.

United Kingdom · Somerset

Housed in Ralph Allen's Grade I-listed Palladian mansion above Bath, now shedding formal Catholic ties for an open Christian ethos.

United Kingdom · West Sussex

Nathaniel Woodard's Jewel in the Crown pairs a Gothic Revival chapel with a top ten IB record across 230 Sussex acres.