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Meet the Top 10 shortlisted schools for 2026
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Colegio Montserrat
Barcelona, Spain
Colegio Montserrat, a part public, part private funded kindergarten, primary and secondary school in Barcelona, Spain, is actively involving parents as architects of their children’s academic success through its Tripod Learning model that empowers students to design and develop ‘Social Minicompanies’ where they learn genuine competencies through real-world experiences.
Pilar Lacruz
Darüşşafaka Eğitim Kurumları
Istanbul, Türkiye
Darüşşafaka Educational Institutions, a full-scholarship boarding school in Istanbul, Türkiye, is transforming how education systems respond to crisis by combining high-touch pastoral care with an adaptive remote learning model that helps vulnerable children remain connected to learning, stability and future opportunity even during profound disruption.
Felicitas Irazusta
Cabog-Cabog Integrated School
Balanga, Bataan, Philippines
Cabog-Cabog Integrated School, a government kindergarten, primary and secondary school in Balanga, Bataan, Philippines, is placing environmental education at the centre of its “curriculum garden mapping’ learning model that has turned the school into a living laboratory where students blend ancestral agricultural knowledge with hydroponics, robotics, organic farming, and entrepreneurship.
Pilar Lacruz
Pharo School Homosha
Asossa, Benishangul-Gumuz, Ethiopia
Pharo School Homosha, a secondary tuition free school in Asossa, Benishangul Gumuz State, Ethiopia, is shifting realities for Ethiopian girls by combining safe boarding, full scholarships, and a high-performance learning model designed to help them overcome barriers, including poverty, displacement, insecurity, early marriage, and limited access to secondary education in one of the country’s most remote and underserved regions.
Felicitas Irazusta
Slum2School Green Academy
Epe, Lagos, Nigeria
Slum2School Green Academy, a charity-run kindergarten and primary school in Epe, Lagos State, Nigeria, is advancing learning for 250 underserved children from eight riverine communities through a first-of-its-kind, climate-smart school with an experiential, inquiry-based learning model that helps students gain up to three years of learning in one school year.
Pilar Lacruz
Nord Anglia International School Dubai
Dubai, UAE
Nord Anglia International School Dubai (NAS Dubai), a British curriculum school starting with Early Years through to Sixth Formin Dubai, United Arab Emirates, is pioneering a reimagined model of community inclusion in one of the world’s most internationally diverse and fast-moving cities by embedding participation, belonging, and collective responsibility into every part of school life.