International School Rankings
| School | SAT Math | SAT Writing | SAT Reading | SAT Comp. | IB Diploma avg. | GPA avg. | Max GPA Weight | # in Graduating Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beijing (ISB)* | 705 | 645 | 640 | 1990 | 36 | 3.3 | 0.5 | 148 |
| New Delhi (AES) | 687 | 647 | 641 | 1975 | 33 | 3.5 | 1.0 | 80 |
| Shanghai (SAS) Puxi* | 695 | 635 | 625 | 1955 | 35 | 3.2 | 0 | 159 |
| Hong Kong (HKIS) | 680 | 627 | 622 | 1929 | 3.4 | 0 | 184 | |
| Taipei (TAS) | 680 | 610 | 597 | 1887 | 34 | 0.5 | 221 | |
| Singapore (SAS)* | 650 | 615 | 610 | 1875 | 3.4 | 0.5 | 278 | |
| Paris (ASP) | 639 | 616 | 615 | 1870 | 30 | 3.4 | 1.0 | |
| Bombay (ASB)* | 635 | 605 | 595 | 1835 | 30 | 3.1 | 0 | |
| Shanghai (CISS) | 676 | 622 | 606 | 1904 | 3.25 | 0 | 38 | |
| The Hague (ASH) | 613 | 593 | 602 | 1808 | 35 | 1.0 | 92 | |
| Moscow (AASM) | 630 | 585 | 592 | 1807 | 31 | 78 | ||
| Shanghai (SAS) Pudong | 660 | 570 | 570 | 1800 | 33 | 2.9 | 0 | 85 |
| Tokyo (ASIJ) | 636 | 602 | 589 | 1827 | 3.5 | 0.5 | 143 | |
| Overseas Schools | 592 | 580 | 586 | 1758 | ||||
| Jakarta (JIS) | 619 | 567 | 551 | 1737 | 33 | 3.3 | 0.8 | 252 |
| Sao Paolo (GSSP) | 601 | 557 | 557 | 1715 | 32 | 65 | ||
| Caracas (ECA) | 587 | 555 | 567 | 1709 | 32 | 1.0 | ||
| Kuala Lumpur (ISKL) | 610 | 553 | 541 | 1704 | 33 | 3.2 | 0.7 | 140 |
| Bangkok (ISB) | 609 | 547 | 526 | 1682 | 33 | 3.3 | 0.5 | 152 |
| Cairo (CAC) | 566 | 552 | 554 | 1672 | 32 | 3.2 | 0.3 | 116 |
| Fairfax, VA | 569 | 543 | 552 | 1664 | ||||
| Nairobi (ISK) | 537 | 535 | 532 | 1604 | 34 | 3.6 | 1.0 | 65 |
| Students Worldwide | 515 | 493 | 501 | 1509 | ||||
| Amman (ACS) | 530 | 535 | 535 | 1600 | 3.1 | 0.5 | 32 | |
| Accra (LCS) | 547 | 535 | 529 | 1611 | 29 | 3.0 | 23 | |
| Abu Dhabi (ACS) | 624 | 588 | 593 | 1805 | 33 | 3.3 | 0.5 | 78 |
| Abu Dhabi (AISA) | 578 | 560 | 558 | 1696 | 32 | 0.5 | 63 | |
| Doha (ASD) | 572 | 545 | 540 | 1657 | 0.5 | |||
| Guangzhou (AIS) | 660 | 573 | 562 | 1795 | 3.3 | 0.5 | 71 | |
| Prague (ISP) | 559 | 514 | 542 | 1615 | 34 | 2.6 | ||
| Kuwait (ASK) | 510 | 498 | 486 | 1494 | 1.0 | |||
| Caracas (CIC) | 512 | 520 | 523 | 1555 | 29 | 3.35 | 0.67 | 16 |
| Warsaw (ASW) | 610 | 551 | 549 | 1710 | 0 | 59 |
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Awesome table! Will be cool when data from more schools are added.
Interesting to see that there is NO correlation between a school’s average SAT composite score and their average IB diploma score. (To see this, just sort the table based on the SAT composite.)
Pretty slick…
Actually, IB diploma scores and SAT scores do show a (weak) positive correlation. Using these numbers, for every 1-point increase in avg IB diploma outcomes, SAT composite scores increase by about 21 points. Standard error (~15) is relatively high, but there is an 81% chance the positive relationship is not zero.
I see. I shouldn’t have said, “There no correlation.” I should have said, “There’s a weak, statistically insignificant correlation.” Good catch! (‘Just messing with you…)
What I’d really like to see are fields like average high school teacher salary, proportion of the high school faculty with teaching certificates and/or graduate degrees, average years of experience, and whether the school offers free housing or not… and about 200 more observations. This could help answer the question of whether teacher pay determines IB or SAT results.
I’ll work on it…
Great resource! Thank you and I hope you continue this data gathering and tabulation in the future!
Thank you for publishing these statistics. Much of your site contains IB figures. What is the influence of the IB on these rankings? For example, are ANY of the schools on this list of highest scoring international schools, full IB schools? From what I can see, NONE of them are MYP schools. Why aren’t there any MYP schools on this list? Why is it that the highest achieving international schools continue to exclude the MYP from their programme?
To be completely honest, the lack of MYP wasn’t a significant factor in a school not being represented on this list. This began as a benchmarking study, and the only way to collect reliable data was to find and download each school’s High School Profile and then mine those profiles for the relevant data. In the future I hope to convince schools to participate voluntarily and cooperate – it really is useful data for schools. The upshot is that it may be that some very high performing schools have implemented the MYP program or are IB World Schools, but they don’t publish their results in their high school profiles. Or it could be as you seem to suggest: the MYP is not as strong a program as the IBDP, so good schools tend to prefer their own middle school curricula to the IBO’s branded version.
These rankings show just a snapshot of how students perform on an assessment. I agree they can be helpful in providing context, but I would offer (as would everyone else) that there are numerous factors that make a school successful. Adding to this current list (in addition to AP results) would be average length of stay of teachers and their respective years of experience. I would hypothesize that schools with relative higher results might have a longer length of teacher stay and years of experience (though an advanced degree and years of experience doesn’t automatically affect increased student results).
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