Ibadan and around
Secondary schools in Ibadan: the historic colleges, ISI and the private schools, with fees where they are published
Ibadan has the deepest bench of historic secondary schools in the south-west: Government College Ibadan (1929), Ibadan Grammar School (1913), St Anne's (the country's oldest girls' school), Loyola College, Queen's School and Yejide, most of them now back in state or church hands. Above them sits International School Ibadan on the University of Ibadan campus, and around them the private schools of Bodija, Jericho and Ring Road: Vale College, Lead City International, Kingston, Duke, Sunshine and Christ Ambassadors.
This page puts them in one table with the fee figure and where it came from. Ibadan's private schools publish more readily than most cities' through third-party listings, and we link every one. No Ibadan school publishes results in a comparable form, so there is no results ranking and no pass rate we cannot source.
17 schools listed, 5 with a fee figure and its source. Updated 21 September 2026.
How this list is ordered
The federal and university-run schools come first, then the historic state and mission colleges by founding date, then the private schools by fee transparency and by how often they appear across the thirteen independent published lists we checked. Position is not a judgement of teaching quality.
- •Ownership: federal unity college, state, mission, institutional or private
- •Fee transparency: a figure on the school's own site beats a third-party estimate, which beats nothing
- •Named on independent published lists of schools in the city
- •Day or boarding, and the curriculum the school states it teaches
- •A live profile on SchoolRegistry that the school can claim and correct
Fees. A figure marked 'school schedule' was read on the school's own website or fee document. 'Estimate' comes from the named third-party page linked beside it and can be a year or more out of date; treat it as the order of magnitude, not the invoice. 'Not published' means neither the school nor a source we would cite prints a figure. All figures exclude uniforms, books, PTA levies, transport and boarding extras unless the note says otherwise.
The list
| # | School | Area | Type | Fees | Why it is here |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | International School Ibadan (ISI) Nigerian and Cambridge · Co-educational · Day and boarding | University of Ibadan | University of Ibadan school, day and boarding | Not published, ask the school No schedule published by the school or a source we would cite. | Founded in 1963 on the University of Ibadan campus as a school for the university community and the city; the reference point every Ibadan family measures the others against. |
| 2 | Federal Government College, Ogbomoso Nigerian · Co-educational · Boarding | Ogbomoso | Federal unity college, boarding | ₦100,000 per termestimate Tuition is free at federal unity colleges; the ₦100,000 a term set in 2023 covers boarding, feeding, insurance and levies (FIJ breakdown). Confirm the current figure with the college. | The co-educational unity college for Oyo State, at Ogbomoso about 100 km north of Ibadan. |
| 3 | Federal Government Girls' College, Oyo Nigerian · Girls · Boarding | Oyo town | Federal unity college, boarding | ₦100,000 per termestimate Tuition is free at federal unity colleges; the ₦100,000 a term set in 2023 covers boarding, feeding, insurance and levies (FIJ breakdown). Confirm the current figure with the college. | The girls' unity college for the state, at Oyo town. |
| 4 | Ibadan Grammar School Nigerian · Co-educational · Day and boarding | Molete | Anglican mission, day and boarding | Not published, ask the school No schedule published by the school or a source we would cite. | Opened in 1913 by the Church Missionary Society, the oldest secondary school in Ibadan, returned to the Anglican Diocese under the Oyo State hand-back. |
| 5 | Government College, Ibadan Nigerian · Boys · Boarding | Apata | Oyo State, boys, boarding | Not published, ask the school No schedule published by the school or a source we would cite. | Opened in 1929 as one of the four government colleges of the colonial era, with an alumni list that runs through Nigerian public life; still a state boarding college. |
| 6 | St Anne's School, Ibadan Nigerian · Girls · Boarding | Molete | Anglican mission, girls, boarding | Not published, ask the school No schedule published by the school or a source we would cite. | Descended from the CMS girls' school of 1869 in Lagos, which makes it the oldest girls' secondary school in Nigeria; girls' boarding in Molete. |
| 7 | Loyola College, Ibadan Nigerian · Boys · Boarding | Old Ife Road | Catholic mission, boys, boarding | Not published, ask the school No schedule published by the school or a source we would cite. | The Jesuit-founded boys' college of 1954, returned to the Catholic Archdiocese of Ibadan; the Catholic boys' boarding option in the city. |
| 8 | Queen's School, Ibadan Nigerian · Girls · Boarding | Apata | Oyo State, girls, boarding | Not published, ask the school No schedule published by the school or a source we would cite. | The state's flagship girls' boarding school, founded in Ede in 1952 and moved to Ibadan. |
| 9 | Yejide Girls' Grammar School Nigerian · Girls · Day and boarding | Molete | Oyo State, girls, day and boarding | Not published, ask the school No schedule published by the school or a source we would cite. | A Molete girls' grammar school from the 1950s, one of the trio of historic girls' schools with St Anne's and Queen's. |
| 10 | All Saints' College, Ibadan Nigerian · Co-educational · Day and boarding | Ibadan | Anglican mission, day and boarding | Not published, ask the school No schedule published by the school or a source we would cite. | The Anglican Diocese of Ibadan's college. |
| 11 | Vale College Nigerian and British · Co-educational · Day and boarding | Ibadan | Private, day and boarding | Not published, ask the school No schedule published by the school or a source we would cite. | Named on three of the thirteen independent lists we checked; the private school most often set against ISI. |
| 12 | Lead City International School Nigerian and British · Co-educational · Day and boarding | Ibadan | Private, day and boarding | Not published, ask the school No schedule published by the school or a source we would cite. | Named on two of the thirteen lists; the secondary school of the Lead City University group. |
| 13 | Christ Ambassadors International College Nigerian · Co-educational · Day and boarding | Ibadan | Private, day and boarding | Not published, ask the school No schedule published by the school or a source we would cite. | Named on three of the thirteen lists. |
| 14 | Kingston College Nigerian · Co-educational · Day and boarding | Ibadan | Private, day and boarding | ₦150,000 to ₦500,000 per termestimate Source: Nigeria Private Schools (2025) The listed range spans day and boarding. | Named on two of the thirteen lists; one of the few Ibadan schools with a published range. |
| 15 | Sunshine International High School Nigerian · Co-educational · Day | Ibadan | Private, day | ₦50,000 to ₦250,000 per termestimate Source: Nigeria Private Schools (2025) The listed range spans nursery to secondary. | Named on two of the thirteen lists. |
| 16 | Duke International College Nigerian · Co-educational · Day and boarding | Ibadan | Private, day and boarding | Not published, ask the school No schedule published by the school or a source we would cite. | Named on two of the thirteen lists. |
| 17 | Bodija International School Nigerian · Co-educational · Day | Bodija | Private, day | ₦100,000 to ₦400,000 per termestimate Source: Nigeria Private Schools (2025) The listed range spans nursery to secondary. | The Bodija private school families compare with Vale and Lead City. |
Run a school on this list, or know a figure is out of date? Claim the profile and correct it; corrections with a fee schedule attached go live the same week.
By area
University of Ibadan and Bodija
ISI on the campus, Bodija International and the Bodija private schools.
Molete, Apata and Ring Road
The historic belt: Ibadan Grammar School, St Anne's, Yejide, Government College and Queen's School at Apata.
Old Ife Road, Jericho and out of town
Loyola on Old Ife Road; Vale, Lead City and Kingston on the Jericho and Ring Road side; the unity colleges at Ogbomoso and Oyo.
What 'best' can and cannot mean in Ibadan
No school in Ibadan publishes WAEC or NECO results in a form that lets you compare one against another, and the pass rates printed on other lists are not sourced. So this page does not rank by results. What you can compare is what a school is, what it costs and whether it will tell you, whether it boards, and how long it has been doing this.
The fee column is the honest part. Where the only figure is a third-party estimate we link the page and the year; where nothing is published we say so rather than print the placeholder bands that circulate online.
What to ask on the visit
Ask for the full fee schedule in writing, including PTA levy, books, uniform, transport and any development or capital fee charged in the first year. Ask which examination board the school registers students for in SS3 (WAEC, NECO, IGCSE) and how many candidates it entered last year. Ask to see the timetable for a normal week, and where the school publishes its results. A school that answers all four in one visit is usually a school that runs well.
Questions parents ask about schools in Ibadan
How much do secondary schools in Ibadan charge per term?
Nominal levies at the state colleges, about ₦100,000 a term at the unity colleges, ₦50,000 to ₦500,000 a term at the private schools that publish a range, and higher at ISI and the British-stream schools, which give fees at admission.
How do you get into International School Ibadan?
By the school's own entrance examination and interview, with places for university staff children and for the city; the school gives fees and dates at admission.
Which Ibadan schools are boarding only?
Government College, St Anne's, Loyola, Queen's School and the two unity colleges. ISI, Ibadan Grammar School, Yejide, All Saints' and most private schools take day students too.
Are the historic colleges still good?
They are state or church boarding colleges with long histories and thin budgets; standards vary year to year with the principal. Visit, ask about the SS3 examination entry and the hostels, and compare with the private schools on the same visit.
Why does this list not show WAEC pass rates?
Because no Ibadan school publishes results in a comparable form and we will not print a number we cannot source.
Related pages
Oyo on the register
SchoolRegistry data, 2026-10-02
We hold 2,311 schools in Oyo, out of 38,124 nationally. These are counts from our own register rather than estimates, which is why they will not match a published national total: they count what is recorded, not what exists.
Inside Oyo
Largest areas by schools on the register
Values are counts of schools on the SchoolRegistry register.
Areas are recorded as the source gives them, so a city and a local government area can both appear. Counted on 2026-10-02.
What kind of schools
Education level mix in Oyo
- secondary
- 48%
- nursery
- 33%
- primary
- 18%
- university
- 1%
- polytechnic
- 0%
Share of the 2,311 schools we hold for Oyo, by the level each one is recorded at.
Private or government
Ownership mix in Oyo
- private
- 85%
- government
- 14%
- 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.