It is time to reveal the Top 10 finalists for the World’s Best School Prizes 2025. These most prestigious global schools prizes celebrate the schools that are changing lives in their classrooms and far beyond their walls. They share the best practices of institutions that are going above and beyond to transform learning and are having a real impact on their communities and society at large.
From Arkansas to Zimbabwe, from the young nation of Kosovo to the ancient city of Istanbul, from schools that support refugees and turn their students into environmental guardians to those that are innovating entirely online, every one of our finalists stands among the very best in the world with their innovations and their expertise.
Presenting the World’s Best School Prizes 2025 Top 10 Finalists:
Community Collaboration
- Argentina – Escuela Media Gobernador Piedrabuena
- Brazil – Escola COC São Luís
- Costa Rica – Escuela y Colegio Científico Interamericano IHS CATIE
- India – ZP School Jalindarnagar
- Italy – ITI Giambattista Bosco Lucarelli
- Mexico – A Favor del Niño
- Pakistan – Nordic International School Lahore
- Pakistan – Beaconhouse College Programme, Juniper Campus, Quetta
- United Arab Emirates – Dubai British School Jumeirah Park
- United Kingdom – Heanor Gate Spencer Academy
Environmental Action
- Chile – Kingston College
- Colombia – Instituto de Ciencias Agroindustriales y del Medio Ambiente
- Ethiopia – Gelan Number 2 Pre-Primary and Primary School
- France – International School of Nice
- India – Delhi Public School Varanasi
- Kosovo – Finnish School of Kosovo
- Nepal – Kopila Valley School
- Peru – Innova Schools Pucallpa
- Türkiye – Arkas Bilim ve Sanat Merkezi
- United Arab Emirates – Arbor School
Innovation
- Chile – Colegio Bicentenario de Excelencia Carlos Oviedo
- India – Ekya School J P Nagar
- Italy – International Experiential School
- Nigeria – KEY academy
- Sweden – Hitachigymnasiet Västerås
- Sweden – NTI Gymnasiet Johanneberg
- United Arab Emirates – Applied Technology Schools-Umm Al Quwain Campus
- United Kingdom – Minerva Virtual Academy
- United States of America – Franklin School
- Zimbabwe – USAP Community School
Overcoming Adversity
- Argentina – Colegio Madre Teresa
- Australia – River Nile School
- Brazil – Escola Estadual Parque dos Sonhos
- Brazil – Escola Municipal de Ensino Fundamental Saint-Hilaire
- Colombia – Institución Educativa José Asunción Silva
- Palestine – Sarah Secondary School for Girls
- Pakistan – Sanjan Nagar Public Education Trust Higher Secondary School
- Uganda – Aga Khan High School, Kampala
- United Kingdom – One Degree Academy
- United States of America – Cross County Elementary Technology Academy
Supporting Healthy Lives
- Brazil – Colégio Sesi da Indústria Portão
- India – Government Girls Senior Secondary School, NIT 5
- Malaysia – Sk Putrajaya Presint 11(1)
- Mexico – Colegio Valle de Filadelfia, Campus Metepec
- Philippines – Mariveles National High School – Poblacion
- Thailand – Amnuay Silpa School
- Türkiye – The Koç School
- Türkiye – Diyarbakir Science and Art Center
- United Kingdom – Rivers Academy West London
- Vietnam – Vinschool Smart City Primary School
The winners of each of the five World’s Best School Prizes will be decided by our expert Judging Academy based on rigorous criteria and revealed in December.
All the Top 10 finalists will also enter into a Public Vote to determine the winner of the Community Choice Award. Learn about the schools’ stories and vote for your favourite.
The winners of the five Prizes and of the Community Choice Award will all receive a fully-paid membership to our Best School to Work programme – an independent, evidence-based mechanism to certify schools with the best working environment so they can attract and retain the best teachers.
