When is the application deadline?
Applications close on March 1st, 2022, at 11.45pm GMT.
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We’ve designed an application process that encourages self-reflection and facilitates meaningful conversations amongst your school’s community, which may include students, parents, guardians, teachers, school leaders, external organisations and anyone else involved with your institution.
Bring your school’s community together.
Familiarise yourself with the Prizes categories and the framework for the World’s Best School Prizes.
Reflect together and identify your best practices in any of these areas, and also those that still need to be improved.
Score your best practices using the rating indicators for each criterion of the category you are applying for.
Gather evidence to prove the impact of your expertise in your students and community’s lives.
Prepare your application responses.
Fill out the form online and submit your application online.
Early childhood centres, kindergarten, primary, secondary schools, virtual schools – all schools
who teach students in compulsory schooling, and are legally registered with their respective
Ministry of Education or government regulatory authority.
Applications accepted
Applications close
Announcement of Top 10 shortlisted schools for each Prize category
Announcement of Top 3 finalists for each Prize category
Public Advisory Vote
Judging Academy Vote
Winning Ceremony
Applications close on March 1st, 2022, at 11.45pm GMT.
Yes, a school can apply for more than one Prize category, but please note that you should be completing a form for each.
Early childhood centres, kindergarten, primary, secondary schools, online schools – all schools who teach students in compulsory schooling, and are legally registered with their respective Ministry of Education or government regulatory authority.
Only teachers, school principals or other members of the applicant school’s leadership team or of its governing body can complete the application form.
No, you need to apply as an individual school.
Yes, you need permission from your school authorities to apply for the Prizes. By applying to the World’s Best School Prizes, you take full legal responsibility for ensuring the necessary permissions have been sought and granted in advance.
There are no costs to apply and enter the contest. However, on the application form, if you wish you can opt to purchase a printed and framed certificate of ‘World’s Best School Applicant School’, which has a cost of £100, but please note this is OPTIONAL. Regardless of this, all applicants will receive a free digital Applicant School badge.
We are currently only able to accept applications written in English. If this creates a challenge for you, it is possible for someone else to complete the application on your behalf and liaise with us.
No, you have to submit the application all at once, so make sure you have all the information you need before filling the form.
We have invested a significant effort in ensuring that the five Prize Categories are backed by research and evidence. Learn more about the rationale of the Prizes in this document.
The Prizes are funded by sponsorship and grant funding from organisations in the private and philanthropic sectors.
A Prize of US$250,000 will be shared equally amongst the five winners. Each winner will receive a Prize award of US$50.000. Learn more about our Terms and Conditions.