Port Harcourt and around
Secondary schools in Port Harcourt: the shortlist, with fees where they are published
Port Harcourt's shortlist has an unusual shape: two federal unity colleges, three military schools (Navy at Borokiri, Air Force, and Command Day), the old mission colleges (Archdeacon Crowther for girls at Elelenwo, Stella Maris and Holy Rosary for the Catholics, Baptist High School), and a private tier that runs from Charles Dale in GRA to Norwegian International and Bloombreed, whose fees sit at the Lagos level.
This page puts them in one table with the fee figure and where it came from. Where the only figure is a third-party listing we link it and say so; where nothing is published we say that instead. No Port Harcourt school publishes results in a comparable form, so there is no results ranking and no pass rate we cannot source.
18 schools listed, 8 with a fee figure and its source. Updated 21 September 2026.
How this list is ordered
Federal and military schools with centrally set fees come first, then the mission colleges by age, then the private schools by fee transparency and by how often they appear across the eight 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 'Estimate' comes from the named third-party page linked beside it and can be a year or more out of date; treat it as the order of magnitude, not the invoice.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 | Federal Government College, Port Harcourt Nigerian · Co-educational · Boarding | Port Harcourt | 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 unity college for Rivers State, co-educational boarding, entry by the National Common Entrance Examination. |
| 2 | Federal Government Girls' College, Abuloma Nigerian · Girls · Boarding | Abuloma | 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 in Rivers State, at Abuloma on the city's south side; same national admission route and fee scale. |
| 3 | Nigerian Navy Secondary School, Port Harcourt Nigerian · Co-educational · Boarding | Borokiri | Nigerian Navy, boarding | Not published, ask the school No schedule published by the school or a source we would cite. | The Navy's boarding secondary school at Borokiri; civilian admission by entrance examination. |
| 4 | Air Force Secondary School, Port Harcourt Nigerian · Co-educational · Day and boarding | Port Harcourt | Nigerian Air Force, day and boarding | Not published, ask the school No schedule published by the school or a source we would cite. | The Air Force's Port Harcourt school; civilian children admitted at a higher rate than service families. |
| 5 | Command Day Secondary School, Port Harcourt Nigerian · Co-educational · Day | Port Harcourt | Nigerian Army, day | ₦80,000 to ₦120,000 per termestimate Civilian rate; military families pay less. | Run by the Army for soldiers' children and open to civilians; one of the cheaper structured options in the city. |
| 6 | Archdeacon Crowther Memorial Girls' School Nigerian · Girls · Boarding | Elelenwo | Anglican mission, girls, boarding | Not published, ask the school No schedule published by the school or a source we would cite. | The Anglican Diocese's girls' boarding school at Elelenwo, one of the oldest girls' schools in the Niger Delta. |
| 7 | Stella Maris College Nigerian · Co-educational · Day and boarding | Port Harcourt | Catholic mission, day and boarding | Not published, ask the school No schedule published by the school or a source we would cite. | The Catholic Diocese of Port Harcourt's college; the usual Catholic boys' and co-educational option in the city. |
| 8 | Holy Rosary College, Port Harcourt Nigerian · Girls · Day and boarding | Port Harcourt | Catholic mission, girls, day and boarding | ₦150,000 to ₦350,000 per termestimate Source: Nigeria Private Schools (2025) | The Holy Rosary Sisters' girls' college in Port Harcourt. |
| 9 | Baptist High School, Port Harcourt Nigerian · Co-educational · Day and boarding | Port Harcourt | Baptist mission, day and boarding | Not published, ask the school The only listing we found belongs to the Abuja school of the same name, so we print none. | The Nigerian Baptist Convention's high school in the city. |
| 10 | Charles Dale Memorial International School Nigerian and British · Co-educational · Day | GRA, Port Harcourt | Private, day | Not published, ask the school No schedule published by the school or a source we would cite. | Named on four of the eight independent lists we checked, the most of any Port Harcourt private school; a GRA day school with nursery to secondary. |
| 11 | Jephthah Comprehensive Secondary School Nigerian · Co-educational · Day and boarding | Rumuokwurushi | Private, day and boarding | ₦350,000 to ₦600,000 per termestimate Source: Nigeria Private Schools (2024) | Named on three of the eight lists; a large campus on the Rumuokwurushi side with boarding. |
| 12 | Norwegian International School Nigerian and British · Co-educational · Day | Port Harcourt | Private, British stream, day | ₦300,000 to ₦700,000 per termestimate Source: Nigeria Private Schools (2024) | Named on three of the eight lists; founded for the families of the offshore industry and still the international-stream choice in the city. |
| 13 | Bloombreed Schools Nigerian · Co-educational · Day and boarding | Port Harcourt | Private, day and boarding | ₦1,843,750 per yearestimate Source: Schoolings (fee schedule) (2025) Session tuition about ₦1.84m plus a ₦250,000 enrolment fee and a development fee, per Schoolings; Nigeria Private Schools lists ₦400,000 to ₦500,000 a term. | Named on two of the eight lists; the high school publishes a full fee schedule on a third-party site, rare in the city. |
| 14 | Greenoak International School Nigerian and British · Co-educational · Day | Port Harcourt | Private, British stream, day | ₦1,125,000 per yearestimate Source: doris.school (2025) Nursery from about ₦1.1m a year on the source; secondary is higher. | Named on two of the eight lists; publishes an annual fee table on doris.school from nursery upward. |
| 15 | Aladumo International Schools Nigerian · Co-educational · Day and boarding | Port Harcourt | 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 eight lists. |
| 16 | Hallel College Nigerian · Co-educational · Day and boarding | Rumuigbo | 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 eight lists; a Rumuigbo boarding option. |
| 17 | Oaksprings Hill School Nigerian · Co-educational · Day | Port Harcourt | Private, day | Not published, ask the school No schedule published by the school or a source we would cite. | Named on two of the eight lists. |
| 18 | Graceland International School Nigerian · Co-educational · Day and boarding | Port Harcourt | Private, day and boarding | Not published, ask the school No schedule published by the school or a source we would cite. | A long-established private school; the only figure online is a 2017 forum post, which we do not print. |
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
GRA and Old GRA
Charles Dale, Norwegian International and the higher-fee day schools; Stella Maris and Holy Rosary a short drive.
Rumuokwurushi, Rumuigbo and the Airport road side
Jephthah, Hallel, Bloombreed and the newer boarding campuses.
Borokiri, Abuloma and Elelenwo
The Navy school, FGGC Abuloma and Archdeacon Crowther: the boarding institutions on the south and east sides.
What 'best' can and cannot mean in Port Harcourt
No school in Port Harcourt 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 Port Harcourt
How much do secondary schools in Port Harcourt charge per term?
About ₦100,000 a term at the unity colleges, ₦80,000 to ₦120,000 for civilians at Command Day, ₦150,000 to ₦700,000 at the mission and private schools that publish a range, and around ₦600,000 a term at Bloombreed, per the sources linked in the table.
Which Port Harcourt schools have boarding?
FGC, FGGC Abuloma, the Navy school and Archdeacon Crowther are boarding only; Air Force, Stella Maris, Holy Rosary, Baptist High, Jephthah, Bloombreed, Aladumo, Hallel and Graceland offer boarding alongside day places.
Can a civilian child attend the Navy, Air Force or Command schools?
Yes, by entrance examination, at the civilian rate; service families pay less.
Which schools on this list publish their fees?
Bloombreed and Greenoak through third-party schedules; most others through listings marked as estimates. The military and mission schools give fees at admission.
Why does this list not show WAEC pass rates?
Because no Port Harcourt school publishes results in a comparable form and we will not print a number we cannot source.
Related pages
Rivers on the register
SchoolRegistry data, 2026-10-02
We hold 1,141 schools in Rivers, 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 Rivers
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 Rivers
- secondary
- 53%
- primary
- 27%
- nursery
- 18%
- university
- 1%
- professional
- 0%
Share of the 1,141 schools we hold for Rivers, by the level each one is recorded at.
Private or government
Ownership mix in Rivers
- private
- 70%
- government
- 29%
- 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.