An extraordinary Nigerian school, on Monday, emerged top among 10 finalist for the World’s Best School Prizes 2025.
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, are the world’s most prestigious education prizes.
KEY (Keep Educating Yourself) Academy, an independent primary and secondary school in Lagos, Nigeria, which is revolutionising education through its project-based learning model is equipping students with the critical thinking, creativity, and 21st-century problem-solving skills they need to thrive in a rapidly changing world, has been named a top 10 finalist for the World’s Best School Prize for Innovation.
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.
In addition, all 50 finalist 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.
All six winners will be announced in October.
The winners and finalists of these global schools prizes will be invited to the World Schools Summit in Abu Dhabi, UAE, on November 15-16 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: “In a world being turned upside down by AI, as technology reshapes the way we learn and renders jobs that have existed for centuries obsolete, amid growing challenges of climate change, conflict, poverty and populism, the world our young people are entering has never felt more precarious. And a good education, with humans at its heart, has never been more important.
“It is in schools like KEY Academy where we find the innovations and expertise that give us hope for a better future. Congratulations on becoming a finalist for the World’s Best School Prizes 2025. Leaders and schools around the world have so much to learn from this inspirational Nigerian institution,” Vikas Pota added.
