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Top Secondary Schools in South-West Nigeria with boarding facilities (2026)

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    • Pinefield College Lekki
    • Dominus Fortitudo Nostra ( God Our Strength)
  • Location: Lagos-Lekki Phase 1
  • Endorsements: 2 Parents
  • Our mission is to nurture each child's inherent ability to its full potential, instilling 21st century survival skills, good manners, open mindedness and the fear of God. Your future leader and innovator will flourish in our nurturing community of p...
  • Since 2011
    • Dothan Comprehensive High School
    • NOT FOR SCHOOL BUT FOR LIFE
  • Location: Lagos-Igbe Alagemo
  • Endorsements: 0 Parents
  • Secure Your Child’s Future! At Dothan Comprehensive Schools, we do more than teach—we prepare students for life. On our serene Ikorodu campus, we provide a holistic education balancing academic rigor with deep character development. Equipped with mod...
    • DOMINION FAITH COLLEGE
    • Knowledge is Power
  • Location: Lagos-Ojo
  • Endorsements: 0 Parents
  • Dominion Faith College offer a strong Christian foundation, holistic education (academic, spiritual and social) The school is led by experienced and dedicated staffs .Safe and nurturing environment that fosters creativity, critical thinking, innovati...
    • Fit Charis College
    • Preserving Posterity
  • Location: Lagos-Ikotun Lagos.
  • Endorsements: 1 Parents
  • Fit-Charis College is a high standard school, providing quality services, with a conducive learning environment and qualified staff. We aim to reach, raise and release world class leaders who are educationally sound, spiritually balanced, socially...
    • Mandate Private College
    • Educational Legacy for Posterity
  • Location: Lagos-Akesan
  • Endorsements: 0 Parents
  • We offer Total Education with the latest classroom technology and I.T infrastructure along excellent staff. We provide superior quality education and raise creative and innovative leaders of tomorrow with required knowledge and Godly upbringing....
    • Soaring Pacesetter Girls College
    • Building Girls of Value and Dignity
  • Location: Oyo-Ibadan
  • Endorsements: 1 Parents
  • The pioneering spirit that led to SPGC is to see girls thrive confidently, compassionately and courageously; tp developthe resilence and self worth that will remain with them for live. It is a school designed for girls and free from gender stereotyp...
    • Powerfields Group Of Schools (College Section)
    • Excellence with impeccable morals
  • Location: Lagos-Ijede
  • Endorsements: 6 Parents
  • Powerfields Group of Schools is located in a very serene estate surrounded and has a 24-hour uninterrupted power suppy. There is top-notch security for the students and staff. The school has a long-standing reputation of uncompromised academic excel...
    • Woodland Schools
    • Hard work is all
  • Location: Lagos-Shasha
  • Endorsements: 0 Parents
  • At Woodland Schools, we pride ourselves in character building and achieving excellence with total care. That is why we are open minded, accommodating and not anti-change. We aim at making the children aware of their own potential and to instill...
    • Vega College
    • GOD'S FAVOUR
  • Location: Lagos-Alagbado
  • Endorsements: 0 Parents
  • Affordably Efficient and Trustworthy.
    • Best Legacy International Schools, Awe
    • Raising Role Models
  • Location: Oyo-AKINMOORIN ROAD, GAA, AWE,
  • Endorsements: 0 Parents
  • Moral and academic excellence
    • Landmark College, Ikorodu
    • Marked for excellence
  • Location: Lagos-Ikorodu
  • Endorsements: 10 Parents
  • Fully IT compliant, A blend of British and Nigeria curricular, a maximum of 20 in a class. Blended learning: Online (Microsoft teams).... OUR COMMITMENTS: To help every child reach their maximum potential. Our watchword is "Turning ducklings into...
  • Since 1859
    • CMS GRAMMAR SCHOOL
    • NISI DOMINUS FRUSTRA
  • Location: Lagos-BARIGA
  • Endorsements: 0 Parents
  • 1ST SECONDARY SCHOOL IN NIGERIA, 1ST ONLY BOYS SCHOOL IN NIGERIA. WE SIMPLY INSIST ON OUR AGE-LONG TRADITION OF PROVIDING HIGH QUALITY EDUCATION THROUGH THE INSTRUMENTALITY OF HIGH ACADEMIC PREMIUM SOUND MORALS & DEEP SPIRITUALITY. IN SHORT, WE'VE G...
    • Mictec International High School
    • LAYING THE RIGHT FOUNDATION
  • Location: Lagos-Ogudu Ojota
  • Endorsements: 3 Parents
  • British and Nigerian curriculum Leadership training Effective after school Effective moral and spiritual development Engaging co-curricular activities Stimulating and conducive environment for learning E-learning facilities. Teacher student ra...
    • Sunshine Diamond High School
    • Arise and Shine
  • Location: Oyo-Ibadan
  • Endorsements: 0 Parents
  • Our Vision for life is to inspire, inform, refine, reform, remould and transform children that have contact with us, in order to effect the positive change their world needs.
    • Phidel Group of Schools
    • IN GOD WE TRUST
  • Location: Lagos-ISHERI OLOFIN/EGBEDA
  • Endorsements: 3 Parents
  • In Phidel college, we develop the next generation of world leaders through invaluable trainings and moral standard. AT PHIDEL COLLEGE, WE RUN A CO-EDUCATIONAL SCHOOL, WE AS WELL RUN DAY/BOARDING SCHOOL AND A NIGERIAN/BRITISH/AMERICAN CURRICULA WITH A...
    • West Mills British School
    • Aiming higher
  • Location: Lagos-Apapa
  • Endorsements: 1 Parents
  • Our aim is to provide world class British Education at an affordable price. We seek to ensure that every pupil achieves their personal best in order to transform them into leaders. We offer an accelerated curriculum taking the Checkpoints in Year 8,...
    • Maple Canadian College
    • #Startheregoanywhere
  • Location: Lagos-lagos
  • Endorsements: 2 Parents
  • MCC is a grade 10, 11, & 12 college that bridges the gap between the Canadian High School Curriculum and the West African High School Syllabus. MCC provides its students with the opportunity of obtaining the Ontario Secondary School Diploma, (O.S.S.D...
    • Christ The King International Schools, Gbagada
    • The Fear of God is the beginning of Wisdom
  • Location: Lagos-Gbagada
  • Endorsements: 0 Parents
  • Vision:-To be the school all other Schools in Nigeria will use as a benchmark of Academic and Moral Excellene in National and International Education and ultimately produce the leaders of tomorrow.. Our mission is to deliver World Class Education....
    • Caleb International College , Magodo, Lagos
    • Faith in God
  • Location: Lagos-CMD, Magodo
  • Endorsements: 1 Parents
  • Caleb International School is a Day/Boarding co educational Primary/ Secondary School located at magodo, Lagos State. CIS offers a rich Nigerian Curriculum and has best- in class Team of Teachers and staff, Impacting values and preparing children...
    • Blooming Greens High School
    • Committed to Excellence
  • Location: Lagos-Yaba
  • Endorsements: 0 Parents
  • We give world class education that gives our students the edge and makes them able to compete favourably globally with our British blended with Nigerian curriculum
    • Soundhope Bronston Canada International College (gbagada Center)
    • God is Great
  • Location: Lagos-Gbagada
  • Endorsements: 0 Parents
  • A School of Future Leaders who are honest, academically, socially, morally and spiritually upright, dictating the pace and standard of the society they live in
    • Gjs (great Joy Schools) College
    • ...building tomorrow, today!
  • Location: Lagos-Haruna
  • Endorsements: 0 Parents
  • At GJS College, we build students to compete well in the IT world by offering wide range of information technology courses like programming, web design and 3D animation even from Grade 7. We run a first class mathematics clinic that has made our stud...
    • Neander International School
    • Everyone is an achiever!
  • Location: Lagos-Epe
  • Endorsements: 0 Parents
  • Neander International School is a center of academic excellence which inculcates the core values of discipline and personal growth. The school is clearly committed to developing a total child that will compete favorably with existing institutions bot...
    • International Bridge Education
    • Learning Forward
  • Location: Lagos-Lagos
  • Endorsements: 0 Parents
  • Internatinal Bridge Education provides a pre-university program designed for student that desire to study abroad ( Canada, Australia, UK, and USA). This is achieved by giving our students the opportunity to access Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OS...
    • Christ The King College
    • Integrity and Excellence
  • Location: Oyo-Ibadan
  • Endorsements: 0 Parents
  • Christ the King College will be a highly sought after school providing a supportive environment for every child using innovation, technology, and a standard driven curriculum. Our Students will have a reputation for excellence, integrity and account...
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