Schools known for Football.

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

A quiet Rice County campus since 1858, whose two NHL-sized rinks have fed the sport's pro and Olympic pipelines for decades.

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.

Inside Doha's Aspire Zone, scholarship footballers and track athletes pair IGCSE study with Olympic-grade sports science labs

Founded in 1557 on a former Augustinian priory, its ten houses still dine together with no central hall.

A rare three-year IB track pairs Olympic-calibre training with academic rigor on a Woodlands campus built for both.

On the edge of Dartmoor, an Olympic-legacy 50m pool has sent swimmers to six straight Olympic and Paralympic Games.

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.

Where VCE study and elite training share a timetable, inside Victoria's only state-funded sports school program.

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.

Founded in 1841 on missionary lands in Manoa, blending Hawaiian heritage with rigorous college-prep tradition and Hawaii's winningest athletics program

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

A snowbound Aomori powerhouse where national soccer titles and elite university-track classrooms share the same campus.

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

On a Tamaki Estuary campus, this Presbyterian day-and-boarding school teaches boys and girls in parallel classrooms before NCEA unites them

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

Set within 480 acres of Repton-landscaped Suffolk parkland around an 18th-century mansion, home to specialist tennis and golf academies.

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

Set within Malaysia's National Sports Complex, this pioneer sports school pairs SPM classrooms with daily training across 23 disciplines.

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.

Since 1831, a Jesuit brotherhood on Cincinnati's west side forges 'Men for Others' through rigorous AP coursework.

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

Founded in 1778 as the nation's oldest incorporated boarding school, its Harkness tables still turn lectures into conversation.

Since 1936, oval Harkness tables replace lectures with discussion, while a century-old House system anchors campus life

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

Educating Magdalen College's choristers since 1480, this Oxford day school is now opening its ancient choir stalls to girls for the first time.

Founded in 1515 as a free grammar school, this Rusholme day school still funds over 200 bursary places every year.

An all-boys Dallas day school where ninth graders trade classrooms for a 12-day trek through the Pecos wilderness

Founded in 1635, America's first public school still tests every applicant, predating Harvard by more than a year.

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

A 1615 charity foundation turned super-selective grammar, thriving on a former Croydon airfield with a sharp focus on maths and computing.

One of England's Nine Great Public Schools, now fully coeducational, set on a 250-acre Surrey campus with IB scores averaging 37 points.

Chartered by Elizabeth I in 1565, this Highgate grammar school now founds access academies alongside its Oxbridge-bound sixth form.

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

A 1619 theatre fortune built this Dulwich day school, whose junior houses still bear the names of Edward Alleyn's playhouses.

Born from John Dewey's 1896 experiment in progressive education, still testing ideas in Hyde Park classrooms today

On the grounds of Washington National Cathedral, this all-boys school pairs daily chapel singing with a coordinate program next door.

Amid the ruins of a Shropshire castle estate, a fiercely academic sixth form channels 40 nationalities toward STEM and Oxbridge.

Born of a 1978 royal decree to build a school here, this secondary-only campus fuels a steady stream of Oxbridge offers.

Born of an 1883 merger between two Cambridge institutions, its three campuses sit in the intellectual orbit of Harvard and MIT.

A century-old mesa-top boarding school above the Pacific, where equestrian roots meet inquiry-driven academic rigor.

A century-old Irving Gill campus steps from the Pacific, where tradition still bars the quad before noon.

A hilltop day school outside Boston, where jacket-and-tie ritual and family-style lunch anchor a century-old all-boys formation.

Sends every Year 9 to a remote alpine campus, then blends IB and VCE with the wellbeing model it pioneered.

Southeast Asia's oldest British school pairs IB with A-Levels, then sends every Year 9 to the Australian bush for five weeks.

Founded in 1869 as a girls' seminary in Westchester, this campus still measures success by its motto: not for self, but for service.

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

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.

Curled inside a loop of the River Severn, twelve boarding houses keep alive a rowing tradition dating to 1866.

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

One of England's earliest girls' day schools, founded in 1875, pairs Oxford scholarship with a culture of fearless inquiry.

Founded in 1950 as Dallas's first co-ed, non-denominational K-12 school, blending AP rigor with hands-on Design and Innovation study.

Since 1923 in the Ladue suburbs, a liberal-arts day school where family-style lunches and an Ozarks wilderness camp shape scholars as much as seminars do.

Secondary heir to Dubai's oldest British school, pairing a not-for-profit ethos with a Sixth Form spanning A Levels to vocational BTECs.

Forged from a 1974 merger of three Twin Cities schools, prized today for a nationally recognized debate program across its Hopkins and Minneapolis campuses.

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.

One school, two continents: this Songdo campus mirrors a 1935 California founder, pairing IB rigor with mandatory outdoor-education expeditions.

Since 1897, the nation's first country day school pairs a boys' honor code with bridges to two sister schools in Roland Park.

Perched at 1,200 metres in the Swiss Alps, meditation and expedition learning are as core to the timetable as the IB Diploma.

An all-boys campus of 75 wooded acres near D.C., where a teacher-coach-mentor model pairs AP rigor with 22 varsity sports.

A hilltop New Jersey campus, founded 1848, where the weekly Society of Skeptics turns global debate into a signature course of study

Housed in a former 1875 castle on Lake Starnberg, this Bavarian campus channels nearly every senior into the full IB Diploma.

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

Born in 1851 as the nation's first family boarding school, still pairing faculty and students under one roof on a Pottstown hilltop.

On Manhattan's Upper East Side since 1913, a K-9 boys' school pairing classical rigor with mandatory public-speaking training for every student.

An all-boys, all-boarding community on 1,200 Piedmont acres, run on a century-old honor code and a football rivalry dating to 1901

A 130-acre hilltop campus 10 minutes from the Capitol, running America's only fully residential school of its caliber in a major metro area.

A century-old Baptist foundation in Kew runs VCE and IB in parallel, anchored by a campus Centre for Learning and Innovation with its own UN Room.

A 1961 Gulf pioneer pairing A-Levels and the IB Diploma with a Steven Gerrard-backed football academy

At 1,750 metres in the Engadine, IB and Swiss Matura classes share the calendar with cricket on Europe's highest pitch, in play since 1922.

Tudor bluecoat uniforms unchanged since 1552 meet a bursary scheme that funds most pupils, set across 1,200 acres of Sussex countryside.

A Gothic Revival chapel dubbed the 'Cathedral of the Downs' crowns this school perched on the South Downs skyline.

Weekly one-to-one tutorials descended from the Dalton Plan shape learning inside a Grade I Norman Shaw mansion above the River Stour.