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Best Secondary Schools in Anambra by WAEC Results (2025/2026)

Anambra State has a strong educational tradition, anchored by historic mission schools like CKC Onitsha. The state consistently produces some of the best WAEC results in the South-East region, with a mix of mission, government and private schools competing at the top level.

Independent analysis: This is a SchoolRegistry NG WAEC performance index, not an official government ranking. Rankings are based on public and submitted school signals and should be verified before admission decisions.

Top 5 WAEC Schools in Anambra

Top 5 Schools in Anambra

#School NameTown/CityWAEC BandTypeOwnershipFee Band
1Christ The King College OnitshaOnitsha90-94%BoardingMission₦300k-₦800k/yr
2Our Lady of Lourdes Secondary School OnitshaOnitsha80-84%DayMission<₦300k/yr
3Dennis Memorial Grammar School OnitshaOnitsha80-84%DayMission<₦300k/yr
4Federal Government College NiseNise75-79%BoardingFederal Unity<₦300k/yr
5Nnamdi Azikiwe University Secondary SchoolAwka75-79%DayGovernment<₦300k/yr

Anambra WAEC Data at a Glance

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WAEC Score Distribution

WAEC Score Bands in Anambra

95-100%Elite0 (0%)
90-94%Strong1 (50%)
80-89%Competitive2 (100%)
Below 80%Developing2 (100%)

5 schools analyzed

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3-Year Performance Trend

Are Anambra Schools Improving?

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0

Improving

0% of schools

→

5

Stable

100% of schools

↓

0

Declining

0% of schools

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School Ownership

Who Runs Top Schools in Anambra?

5

Schools

Private0 (0%)
Public/Federal2 (40%)
Mission3 (60%)
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Fee Distribution

What Do Top Schools in Anambra Cost?

Budget (<₦500K)

4 (80%)

Mid (₦500K–2M)

0 (0%)

Premium (₦2–5M)

1 (20%)

Elite (>₦5M)

0 (0%)

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Why These Schools Stand Out in WAEC

1. Christ The King College Onitsha

Onitsha · Boarding · Mission · ₦300k-₦800k/yr

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  • • WAEC signal: 90-94%; admission context: ₦300k-₦800k/yr.
  • • One of Nigeria's oldest and most prestigious mission schools.
  • • Parents should verify current fees, boarding, safety, subject support, and official result evidence before applying.

2. Our Lady of Lourdes Secondary School Onitsha

Onitsha · Day · Mission · <₦300k/yr

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  • • WAEC signal: 80-84%; admission context: <₦300k/yr.
  • • Catholic girls' school with strong academic tradition.
  • • Parents should verify current fees, boarding, safety, subject support, and official result evidence before applying.

3. Dennis Memorial Grammar School Onitsha

Onitsha · Day · Mission · <₦300k/yr

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  • • WAEC signal: 80-84%; admission context: <₦300k/yr.
  • • Historic Anglican school known for producing leaders.
  • • Parents should verify current fees, boarding, safety, subject support, and official result evidence before applying.

4. Federal Government College Nise

Nise · Boarding · Federal Unity · <₦300k/yr

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  • • WAEC signal: 75-79%; admission context: <₦300k/yr.
  • • Unity College with diverse student body from across Nigeria.
  • • Parents should verify current fees, boarding, safety, subject support, and official result evidence before applying.

5. Nnamdi Azikiwe University Secondary School

Awka · Day · Government · <₦300k/yr

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  • • WAEC signal: 75-79%; admission context: <₦300k/yr.
  • • University-affiliated school with access to academic resources.
  • • Parents should verify current fees, boarding, safety, subject support, and official result evidence before applying.

Anambra WAEC Pass Rate

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Nigeria on the register

SchoolRegistry data, 2026-10-02

38,124 schools across 36 states and the FCT, 33,601 of them with a mapped location. These are counts from our own register rather than estimates, so they measure what is recorded, not what exists.

Where the schools are

Ten largest states by schools on the register

Lagos3,920
Oyo2,311
Ogun2,053
FCT1,841
Kano1,512
Osun1,401
Anambra1,260
Delta1,240
Kaduna1,202
Kwara1,141

Values are counts of schools on the SchoolRegistry register.

Counted from the register on 2026-10-02. State totals move when a new source is ingested, so this is a picture of coverage rather than a census.

What kind of schools

Education level mix in Nigeria

secondary
51%
nursery
24%
primary
24%
university
1%
professional
0%

Share of the 38,124 schools we hold for Nigeria, by the level each one is recorded at.

Private or government

Ownership mix in Nigeria

private
76%
government
24%
specialized
0%

The private share is high because private schools are more consistently listed in the public records we ingest, not because government schools are rarer on the ground. Treat this as a measure of our coverage.

Fees: we hold a figure for 9,137 schools, of which 8,947 are an estimated band rather than a fee quoted by the school. We show fees as ranges for that reason, and confirming with the school is still the only way to know what you will pay. Counts generated from the register on 2026-10-02.

How this ranking is made

What WAEC publishes

National and state-level pass rates each session. WAEC does not publish a pass rate for each school, so no ranking of Nigerian schools, ours included, can be a direct reading of official school-level results. Anyone presenting one as such is not showing you where it came from.

What we use instead

Results a school publishes itself or submits to us, results reported in the education press, and the performance bands our editors assign from both. Bands are wide on purpose: the evidence supports saying a school sits in the nineties, not that it scored 93.4%.

What this is not

Not a league table of every school in Nigeria. It covers schools with a public record strong enough to assess, which favours larger and better-documented schools. A school missing from the list has not been judged and found wanting; it has not been assessed.

Use the ranking to build a shortlist, then ask each school directly for its own WAEC results from the last three sessions. A school confident in its record will show you. That single question tells a parent more than any ranking, this one included.

Common questions about this ranking

How were the best schools in Anambra chosen?

On WAEC performance among schools in Anambra with a public record strong enough to assess. It covers the schools we can evidence, not every school in the state.

What should I check before choosing a school in Anambra?

Ask the school for its own results from the last three sessions, and ask how many of its final-year cohort it entered for the examination as well as how many passed. A school that enters only its strongest students posts a better rate than one entering everybody, and that difference appears in no published figure. Then ask what the full year costs, including levies, uniforms and transport, rather than what tuition costs.

Where do these rankings come from?

From results schools publish themselves or submit to us, results reported in the education press, and the performance bands our editors assign from both. WAEC and JAMB do not publish results school by school in Nigeria, so no ranking of Nigerian schools, ours included, is a direct reading of official school-level results.

Why bands instead of exact percentages?

Because the evidence supports saying a school sits in the nineties, not that it scored 93.4%. A precise figure would look more authoritative and be less true. Where a school publishes its own exact results we show those and say they came from the school.

My school is not listed. Why?

The list covers schools with a public record strong enough to assess, which favours larger and better documented schools. A school missing from it has not been judged and found wanting, it has not been assessed. If you run the school, send us your results and we will add them, marked as submitted by the school.