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About North London Collegiate School (UK)
Since 1850, North London Collegiate School (UK) has maintained its reputation for providing an outstanding education. Students at NLCS Schools enjoy a quality of teaching that enables them to strive for the highest levels of academic attainment.
NLCS (UK) has been ranked no. 1 for IB for the last 14 out of the 15 years. In AY2019-20, students within the IB Programme achieved an average score of 41 out 45. Three of the students achieved the maximum score of 45 points, something usually only achieved by around 300 students out of 160,000 candidates across the globe. It has also been identified as the most successful school in the country for placing students at top universities with over a third of the students attending Oxford, Cambridge and IVY League Universities.
Students develop genuine and grounded confidence in their abilities and will be encouraged to take risks and stretch themselves beyond what they thought possible. ‘Everyone matters’ at NLCS schools; each student is valued for who they are, and their contributions are celebrated. Beyond the classroom, all NLCS Schools offer a rich and vibrant extra-curricular provision across music, drama, sports and the creative arts. The combination of inspirational teaching delivered by passionate subject-experts, individual pastoral care and extra-curricular activities provides students with the best possible platform for life after school, as evidenced by the many Old North Londoners who are leaders in their fields.
At each of the international camupuses, expectations of staff and students will be high and in keeping with NLCS’s position as the top-performing IB school in the UK.
