FRI JUNE 26 2026-theGBJournal| An exemplary Nigerian school was on Thursday named in the Top 10 shortlists for the World’s Best School Prizes 2026.
The five World’s Best School Prizes, founded by T4 Education in the wake of COVID in 2022 to share the best practices of schools that are changing lives in their classrooms and far beyond their walls, have been described as the ‘World Cup for Schools’. They are the world’s most prestigious education prizes.
Slum2School Green Academy – a charity-run kindergarten and primary school in Epe, Lagos State, Nigeria, has been named in the Top 10 shortlist for the World’s Best School Prize for Environmental Action.
Slum2School Green Academy 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 –
The winners of the five World’s Best School Prizes – for Community Collaboration, Environmental Action, Innovation, Overcoming Adversity, and Supporting Healthy Lives – will be chosen by an expert Judging Academy based on rigorous criteria.
The Top 3 finalists and winners will be announced in November. In addition, all 50 shortlisted schools across the five Prizes will also take part in a Public Vote, which opened today, to determine the winner of the Community Choice Award.
The winners and shortlisted schools will then be invited to the World Schools Summit in London, UK, on January 16-17, 2027, where they will share their best practices and unique expertise and experience with policymakers and leading figures in global education.
Vikas Pota, Founder of T4 Education and the World’s Best School Prizes, said:
“Congratulations to Slum2School Green Academy on being shortlisted for the fifth annual World’s Best School Prizes. It has shown that Nigeria’s schools truly stand among the best in the world.
“Each one of these exemplary schools shortlisted for this global schools prize has, in its own unique way, helped prepare young people for a world that has never seemed so uncertain. It is more important than ever that our schools grow the leaders we’ll need to face massive challenges from rising conflict and inequality to populism and climate breakdown.
“In their classrooms, every day, these institutions show what works. And governments and schools across the world should learn from their shining examples.”
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