Abuja
Private secondary schools in Abuja: 17 compared, with fees where they are published
'Private school' in Abuja covers everything from a ₦150,000-a-term day school to an international school above ₦8m a year, and the lists online lump them together. This page separates them by what they cost and whether the school will say: every fee figure here has a named source beside it, and schools that publish nothing are marked that way rather than given an invented band.
The federal, state and mission schools of Abuja are on the main Abuja page; this list is the private and international tier only. No school here publishes results in a comparable form, so there is no results ranking and no pass rate we cannot source.
17 schools listed, 10 with a fee figure and its source. Updated 21 September 2026.
How this list is ordered
Schools with a sourced fee figure come first, in alphabetical order, then schools with no published figure. Fee transparency is the only ordering signal on this page because it is the one a family can check; position is not a judgement of teaching quality.
- •Fee transparency: a figure on the school's own site beats a third-party estimate, which beats nothing
- •Day or boarding, and the curriculum the school states it teaches
- •Area
- •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 'Estimate' comes from the named third-party page linked beside it and can be a year or more out of date; treat it as the order of magnitude, not the invoice.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 | Aduvie International School Nigerian and British · Co-educational · Day and boarding | Jahi | Private, day and boarding | ₦1,350,000 to ₦1,800,000 per yearestimate Two sources disagree: ₦1.35m to ₦1.8m a year on one, ₦300,000 to ₦700,000 a term on the other. Confirm before budgeting. | Named on two of the five lists. Nursery to secondary on one Jahi campus, with a one-off capital fee in the first year. |
| 2 | Nigerian · Co-educational · Boarding | Goshen City, Abuja-Keffi Road | Private mission (Living Faith), boarding | ₦200,000 to ₦285,900 per termestimate Source: Nigeria Private Schools (2025) JSS ₦200,000 to ₦261,500 and SS ₦270,000 to ₦285,900 per term, plus a small PTA levy. One of the few boarding schools on this list under ₦300,000 a term. | Named on two of the five lists. A Living Faith (Winners) mission boarding school about 26 km out on the Keffi road; the lowest published boarding fee among the private schools here. |
| 3 | Funtaj International School Nigerian and British · Co-educational · Day and boarding | Gudu | Private, day and boarding | Not published, ask the school Source: Best Nigerian Schools (2024) Listed among Abuja schools with annual fees under ₦1.5m in 2024. | Named on two of the five lists. Long-established on the Apo and Gudu side with both day and boarding places. |
| 4 | Nigerian and British · Co-educational · Day and boarding School website | Jahi | Private, day and boarding | ₦500,000 to ₦800,000 per termestimate Source: Nigeria Private Schools (2025) The school's own site lists a ₦50,000 commitment fee at admission. | Named on one of the five lists. A mid-fee Jahi option that runs both the Nigerian and British streams. |
| 5 | British (IGCSE, A Level) · Co-educational · Day and boarding | Gwarinpa | Private, British curriculum, day and boarding | ₦900,000 to ₦2,400,000 per yearestimate Source: doris.school (2025) Range quoted for primary; secondary and A Level are higher. Confirm with the school. | Named on three of the five lists. Runs IGCSE and A Level and is one of the Abuja schools families use as a route to UK and North American universities. |
| 6 | Pacesetters' Schools Nigerian · Co-educational · Day and boarding | Wuse 2 | Private, day and boarding | ₦50,000 to ₦400,000 per termestimate Source: Nigeria Private Schools (2025) The listed range spans nursery to secondary; the secondary fee sits at the top of it. | Named on one of the five lists. One of the older private groups in the city with both day and boarding streams. |
| 7 | Nigerian with Cambridge options · Co-educational · Boarding | Lugbe | Private, boarding | ₦1,000,000 per termestimate Source: SchoolsCompass (2025) SchoolsCompass lists tuition above ₦1,000,000 per term and a first-year joining total of about ₦5.4m including one-off charges. | The main private boarding option on the airport road side of the city, with a large purpose-built campus. |
| 8 | British (IGCSE) · Co-educational · Day | Mabushi | Private, British curriculum, day | ₦2,900,000 to ₦3,200,000 per yearestimate Source: doris.school (2025) | Named on four of the five lists. Part of the Regent group that also runs the Maitama primary campus, so families can stay in one system from nursery to IGCSE. |
| 9 | Nigerian and British · Co-educational · Day | Maitama | Private, day | ₦400,000 per termestimate Source: Best Nigerian Schools (2024) Listed from ₦400,000 per term, about ₦1.2m a year, in a 2024 round-up. | Named on two of the five lists. A Maitama school with fees well under the international schools around it. |
| 10 | British · Co-educational · Day and boarding | Jabi | Private, British curriculum, day and boarding | ₦551,250 to ₦750,000 per termestimate Source: SchoolsCompass (2025) Tuition ₦551,250 per term on SchoolsCompass, plus PTA levy, uniform, books and a ₦20,000 application fee. | Named on two of the five lists. British curriculum at a lower fee than the Maitama international schools, with boarding available; a common shortlist entry for Jabi, Utako and Life Camp families. |
| 11 | American, IB Diploma · Co-educational · Day School website | Durumi | International, day | Not published, ask the school AISA publishes tuition in US dollars on its admissions pages; the naira figure moves with the exchange rate, so check the current schedule there. | Named on three of the five lists. The only American-curriculum, IB Diploma secondary school in the capital; most students are children of diplomats and expatriate staff, and the fee sits at the top of the Abuja market. |
| 12 | Nigerian, science focus · Co-educational · Boarding | Kuje | Private, boarding | Not published, ask the school Published third-party figures range from about ₦750,000 to ₦2m a term and do not agree, so we print none. | Named on two of the five lists, usually for its science and mathematics emphasis. A boarding campus at Kuje, south of the city. |
| 13 | Chrisland School, Abuja Nigerian and British · Co-educational · Day | Wuse 2 | Private, day | Not published, ask the school Chrisland publishes Lagos figures more readily than Abuja ones; ask the Abuja campus directly. | Named on one of the five lists. The Abuja campus of the Lagos Chrisland group, nursery to secondary in one place. |
| 14 | Nigerian · Co-educational · Boarding School website | Gidan Mangoro, Karu | Private mission (Jesuit), full boarding | Not published, ask the school The college does not publish a fee schedule; third-party figures vary so widely that we do not print one. Ask at admission. | Named on four of the five independent lists we checked. Opened in 1996 as a full boarding school run by the Society of Jesus with over 600 students from JSS1 to SSS3, and admission is by entrance examination. |
| 15 | Nigerian Tulip International Colleges (NTIC) Nigerian with Cambridge options · Co-educational · Day and boarding | Wuse 2 (day) and Ushafa (boarding) | Private, day and boarding | Not published, ask the school Fees are given at admission. Recent third-party reports for the boarding campus are far above the day fee; confirm which campus you are quoted for. | Named on three of the five lists, and the Abuja school most often cited for science olympiad results. Two campuses: day in Wuse 2, boarding at Ushafa. |
| 16 | Nigerian · Co-educational · Day School website | Wuse 2 | Private, day | Not published, ask the school The school's admissions page lists a ₦50,000 entrance examination fee but not tuition. | Named on one of the five lists. A long-standing Wuse 2 day school with its own nursery and primary feeder. |
| 17 | Nigerian · Co-educational · Day | Garki 2 | Private mission (Catholic), day | Not published, ask the school No published schedule found. | Named on one of the five lists. The Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja's secondary school in Garki, and the usual Catholic day option inside the city. |
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By area
Maitama, Wuse and Asokoro
The international and British-curriculum schools cluster here, and so do the highest fees in the city. If you live in these districts, Regent, Centagon, Olumawu, Chrisland and Pacesetters are all within a short drive.
Jabi, Utako and Jahi
The mid-fee British-stream schools: Whiteplains, Glisten and Aduvie. Boarding is available at all three, which matters for families in the satellite towns.
Gwarinpa and Life Camp
Lead British is the anchor here. Gwarinpa also has the largest number of private day schools in the FCT register, most of them under ₦300,000 a term.
Lugbe, Gudu, Apo and Airport Road
Premiere Academy, Funtaj and FGBC Apo. Faith Academy is further out on the Keffi road. Fees on this side run lower than the city centre for comparable facilities.
Bwari, Kubwa and Kwali
The two unity colleges outside the city, and Kubwa's long tail of affordable private day schools. Loyola Jesuit sits on the Karu side, east of the city.
Reading the fee column
Most private schools quote per term; the international schools quote per year, often in a foreign currency converted at enrolment. Where the source gives a range that spans nursery to secondary we say so, because the secondary fee sits at the top of it. Ask every school for last year's full invoice for a new JSS1 entrant, including PTA levy, books, uniform, transport and any one-off development or capital fee.
Curriculum and what it buys
Nigerian-curriculum schools register students for WAEC and NECO; British-stream schools add IGCSE and, at a few, A Level; the IB Diploma is offered at a handful. For a family aiming at JAMB and a Nigerian university the Nigerian stream is the direct route; the British and IB routes matter for a family planning a degree abroad, and cost two to four times as much.
Questions parents ask about schools in Abuja
How much do private secondary schools in Abuja charge?
From under ₦300,000 a term at the mid-fee day schools to ₦6m to ₦8m a year at the international schools, with the British-stream and boarding schools in between. The table gives the figure and the source for each school.
Which of these schools publish their fees?
A minority in full. Most figures are third-party listings marked as estimates with the page linked; the rest give tuition at admission and are marked 'not published'.
Is a British-curriculum school worth the extra fee?
Only if the plan is a degree abroad. IGCSE and A Level transfer directly to UK, Irish and many other universities; a family aiming at JAMB does not need them.
Why does this page not show WAEC pass rates?
Because no school publishes results in a comparable form and we will not print a number we cannot source.