Schools known for Basketball.

From a 1978 tennis academy to 600 acres of AP classrooms, drawing student-athletes from 60-plus countries.

On a Lake Florence campus in Central Florida, boarders from some 80 countries share dorms with a basketball program that keeps feeding the NBA draft.

Orange County's oldest Catholic campus pairs a nationally ranked athletics program with 138 National Merit finalists

Fort Lauderdale Catholic prep melding AP rigor with a Cambridge International curriculum, backed by nationally ranked football.

Australia's first dedicated sports high school, pairing HSC study with pathways to NRL squads and Olympic teams in western Sydney.

A Salesian all-boys brotherhood in Bellflower pairs three national football titles with dual-enrollment STEM pathways.

In Summerlin's desert suburbs, a Catholic college-prep whose football dynasty has claimed four national titles and 15 state crowns.

Sandstone towers above Sydney Harbour house Australia's largest all-boys boarding community, blending city and country since 1881.

A Hyattsville boys' Catholic prep where a 1965 upset of an unbeaten NY power built a basketball dynasty alongside rigorous AP study.

In the Saddleback foothills, Orange County's only Catholic IB Diploma track meets a decade of CIF Commissioner's Cups.

Beside the Nerang River, the Gold Coast's only boys' school pairs a storied rowing boatshed with Queensland's largest boarding house.

Deep in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, a tiny Baptist boarding school built a basketball pipeline rivaling college programs.

Along equestrian trails in the San Fernando Valley foothills, a liberal-arts day school fields 76 varsity teams.

Founded in 1828 as the nation's first Black Catholic school, now fielding a No. 1-ranked football dynasty in East Baltimore.

An urban Long Beach public school where the century-old motto 'Scholars and Champions' still fits a campus with more NFL alumni than any other in America.

Toronto’s Basilian Catholic boys’ school with a storied hockey tradition

On geothermal ground with a majority-Maori roll, kapa haka and schoolboy rugby carry equal weight in shaping young men.

West of Calgary, sport blocks are built into the timetable, pairing hockey, dance, golf and soccer academies with core academics.

Brisbane's only Marist day-and-boarding school for boys, where rugby pedigree and faith-led character rise beneath the landmark Tower Block.

In this Dallas-suburb powerhouse, a four-decade band dynasty holds dual Sudler honors alongside a Grammy Signature choir.

In Chantilly's WCAC gridiron rivalries, this Diocese of Arlington day school pairs AP Honor Roll rigor with panther pride.

Weekly silent worship and a world-first Platinum-rated campus root Quaker inquiry steps from the Capitol.

Along the LA River in Studio City, a former golf course is rising into a riverside campus of trails, turf and native habitat.

A Wallingford campus where an I.M. Pei arts center anchors a rare, dedicated Arabic and Middle Eastern studies track.

Beside the Old Summer Palace and Tsinghua's gates, this century-old Haidian school channels university rigor into elite gaokao prep.

Descended from Caltech's own Throop roots, this 1907 Pasadena day school still marries rigorous academics with hands-on inquiry.

The only nonsectarian all-girls campus in the Bay Area, pairing Stanford's front yard with a century-old leadership creed.

Since 1889, this Hancock Park all-girls campus has paired a nationally recognized debate program with a first-of-its-kind Global Futures diploma.

A century-old progressive blueprint of House, Assignment, and Lab still shapes learning on the Upper East Side.

Founded in 1912 beside Yonsei University, first in Korea to adopt the IB, blending British, American and Clan-house traditions.

Inside a 1917 Julia Morgan building in Pacific Heights, a signature Civilization seminar drives independent-study scholarship.

Born in 1945 as the capital's first racially integrated school, its progressive ethos still defines a Tenleytown campus

On a Peninsula estate once built by railroad money, this day school ditched AP courses for honors-level, student-driven research.

Hong Kong's first Catholic boys' school, teaching Labour and Virtue from a declared-monument campus on Kennedy Road since 1875.

A Federal-era Woodley Park estate carries forward the French-language roots planted by three immigrant sisters in 1911.

Runs the full IB continuum alongside VCE across three Melbourne campuses, reaching all the way to a studio school in the Kimberley outback.

On a 187-acre abbey campus outside Morristown, Benedictine monks still guide a rigorous, near-1,500-year-old liberal arts tradition.

Founded in 1709 as a charity school, now the oldest continuously operating school in New York City, still built on a rare full Classics department

Born of a teacher barred from Houston's classrooms for marrying, now the city's oldest coeducational day school on a wooded 65-acre campus.

Since 1884 on Philadelphia's storied Main Line, an all-boys campus balances rigorous academics with athletics and the arts.

On Sydney's Upper North Shore, a non-selective campus of five schools lets girls choose between the IB and HSC pathways.

A Santa Monica progressive school that dropped AP entirely, replacing it with its own Crossroads Advanced Studies curriculum in 2007.

Since 1887 on a wooded Oakland hills campus, pairing rigorous scholarship with a decades-old public-school partnership that opens college doors for first-generation students

Formed by a 1965 merger of two century-old Princeton schools, pairing STEAM rigor with a rare four-year architecture program across 106 acres.

A former military academy in West LA now runs a K-12 lab where teens patent inventions and launch startups.

On Vancouver Island, a AP pioneer school pairs Canadian, IB and American pathways with its own rowing centre on the Gorge Waterway.