Category
Schools
Primary and secondary schools documented from government records, award bodies and independent reporting.
- Anglo-Chinese School (Independent)
An independent secondary school in Singapore, and the first national school authorised to offer the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, tracing its founding to a Methodist mission school opened in 1886.
- Bowdoin College
A private liberal arts college in Brunswick, Maine, chartered in 1794 and test-optional in admissions since 1969; the alma mater of Zohran Mamdani '14 and led since 2023 by Safa Zaki, its first woman president.
- Brihaspati Vidyasadan
summary: A private school in Naxal, Kathmandu, named a Full Award recipient in the British Council's 2019–20 International School Award, whose leased campus land is the subject of an unresolved fraud case over a decades-long, below-market lease from a state-linked children's charity.
- Bronx High School of Science
A public specialized high school in the Bronx, founded in 1938, whose alumni include nine Nobel laureates and Zohran Mamdani — a graduate who wants to abolish the admissions exam that admitted him.
- Brooklyn Law School
Private independent law school in Brooklyn Heights founded September 30, 1901, built on legal education for working people. Its alumni include NYC's first Black mayor and the sitting U.S. Attorney General, a night-school graduate.
- Collège Amadou Hampaté Bâ
A subsidised school in Niamey, Niger, whose Article 25-designed laterite classrooms won a 2024 RIBA International Award for Excellence and two 2024 AIA UK awards for passive, low-carbon design.
- Diaconovici-Tietz National College
A bilingual Romanian-German secondary school in Reșița, Romania, founded in 1877 and known locally as "Bastilia" for its fortress-like building; elevated to Colegiul Național rank in 2016, it is the city's only native-German-section school, a Deutsches Sprachdiplom (DSD) school, and is reported
- Golden Peak High School
A private English-medium school in Saraswatinagar, Chabahil, Kathmandu, named a Full Award recipient in the British Council's 2019–20 International School Award programme.
- Kamehameha Schools
Kamehameha Schools is Hawai'i's private school system for Native Hawaiian children, funded almost entirely by the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Estate, a $14.7 billion endowment in 2021. Founded 1887 by a princess's will, it survived the 1997–1999 "Broken Trust" scandal, when all five trustees were ousted.
- Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts
New York City's only specialized high school that admits by audition and portfolio instead of the SHSAT: the Upper West Side "Fame" school formed from a 1936 music-and-art academy and a 1948 performing-arts school, training about 2,400 conservatory-level teens near Lincoln Center.
- Nabakumar Institution
A school and college in Bakshi Bazar, Old Dhaka, founded in 1916 and named for a zamindar, Nabakumar; its college branch was later named for educator Dr. Muhammad Shahidullah, and the campus commemorates Standard IX student Matiur Rahman Mallik, killed by police in the 1969 mass upsurge.
- Queens High School for the Sciences
summary: Queens' only specialized public high school, founded in 2002 on the York College campus, admitting students citywide by SHSAT score. Ranked the top high school in New York State in 2024, it spent 24 years sharing a college floor before relocating to its own dedicated building in Jamaica
- Saint Anselm College
Saint Anselm College is the Benedictine liberal-arts college in Goffstown, New Hampshire, home of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics — the school's front-row seat to the first-in-the-nation primary and the alma mater of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, class of 2019.
- St Joseph's Nudgee College
St Joseph's Nudgee College is the Catholic boys' day and boarding school at Boondall, Brisbane — founded 1891 by the Christian Brothers — which in September 2026 claimed a fifth consecutive GPS First XV rugby premiership, the school's 47th title.
- Trinity College
The private liberal-arts college in Hartford, Connecticut where Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel roomed together as undergraduates before co-founding The Daily Caller; chartered in 1823 as Washington College.
- Yale Law School
The law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, formally founded in 1824, where J.D. Vance and Usha Chilukuri both earned law degrees in 2013; a school with no grades, no class rank, and a history of student rebellion that reshaped how it teaches.
- Yuhuatai Senior High School
A public senior high school in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, designated one of the province's first-batch "high-quality distinctive high schools," which expanded to citywide admissions for the first time in 2026.