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Meet the Top 10 shortlisted schools for 2026
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.