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Meet the Top 10 shortlisted schools for 2026
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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
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
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
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
Escola Municipal GET IV Centenario
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Escola Municipal GET IV Centenario, a public primary school in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is giving learners the opportunity to embrace education safely and consistently in one of the city’s most violent and socially vulnerable communities through a hands-on learning model built around emotional safety, student leadership, creativity, and hope.
Felicitas Irazusta
The Inspire Schools
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
The Inspire Schools, an independent primary and secondary school in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, is nurturing the comprehensive development of its students by putting emotional resilience at the centre of its ‘High Tech – High Touch’ pedagogical model that blends digital innovation with human connection to prioritise learner and teacher wellbeing and mental health.