Lekki, Ajah and the Lekki-Epe corridor
Secondary schools in Lekki and Ajah: the shortlist, with fees where they are published
The Lekki-Epe corridor has more secondary schools built since 2000 than any other stretch of Nigeria, and the widest fee range: from Jessville and Pinefield under ₦400,000 a term to Charterhouse Lagos, which publishes tuition above ₦16m a year. In between sit the schools most Lekki families argue over: Greensprings, Dowen, Lagoon (girls), Whitesands (boys), Meadow Hall, Children's International, Caleb British, Chrisland Lekki, and the two secondary-only British schools, BISL and Lekki British.
This page puts them in one table with the fee figure and where it came from. Lekki schools publish more than most, so most rows carry a sourced figure. No Lekki school publishes results in a comparable form, so there is no results ranking and no pass rate we cannot source.
18 schools listed, 15 with a fee figure and its source. Updated 21 September 2026.
How this list is ordered
Schools are listed by how long they have been running, oldest first, with fee transparency breaking ties; the newest, Charterhouse, is last because it is the newest, not because of anything else. 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 'Estimate' comes from the named third-party page linked beside it and can be a year or more out of date; treat it as the order of magnitude, not the invoice.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 | Greensprings School, Lekki Nigerian and British, IB Diploma · Co-educational · Day and boarding | Lekki | Private, day and boarding | ₦2,500,000 to ₦5,500,000 per yearestimate Source: CampusNinja (2026) ₦2.5m to ₦5.5m a year across the group per CampusNinja; Lagos.cool puts the Anthony campus at ₦2.0m to ₦3.2m. | The Lekki campus of the group founded in 1985, with boarding and the IB Diploma; the largest private school on the corridor. |
| 2 | Dowen College Nigerian · Co-educational · Day and boarding | Lekki Phase 1 | Private, day and boarding | ₦2,500,000 per yearestimate Source: UniReady fee guide (2025) About ₦2.5m tuition plus ₦300,000 extras for a first-year entrant per UniReady; the secondary schedule differs by class. | A Lekki Phase 1 school since 1997 with day and boarding streams. |
| 3 | The Lagoon School Nigerian · Girls · Day | Lekki | Private, girls, day | ₦2,000,000 to ₦3,500,000 per yearestimate Source: Lagos.cool (2026) Lagos.cool's band; the school gives its schedule at admission. | The girls' school of the Opus Dei-inspired pair with Whitesands, on Lekki since 1996; day only. |
| 4 | Chrisland High School, Lekki Nigerian · Co-educational · Day | Lekki | Private, day | ₦3,500,000 to ₦6,000,000 per yearestimate Source: Lagos.cool (2026) Lagos.cool's band for the Lekki college; the group publishes nursery and primary figures more readily. | The Lekki secondary campus of the Chrisland group. |
| 5 | Lekki British International High School British (IGCSE, A Level) · Co-educational · Day and boarding | Lekki | Private, British curriculum, day and boarding | ₦4,600,000 to ₦6,800,000 per yearestimate Source: Nairametrics (2022) ₦4.6m day and ₦6.8m boarding per annum in 2022; fees have risen since. | British curriculum through IGCSE and A Level with boarding on the Lekki campus, since 2000. |
| 6 | British International School, Lagos (BISL) British (IGCSE, A Level) · Co-educational · Day and boarding | Lekki | International, British curriculum, day and boarding | ₦6,000,000 to ₦8,000,000 per yearestimate Source: Nigeria Private Schools (2025) Day tuition; boarding and extras push the total above ₦10m a year on the same source. | The secondary-only British international school in Lekki since 2001, with a large boarding house. |
| 7 | Meadow Hall Nigerian · Co-educational · Day and boarding | Lekki | Private, day and boarding | ₦3,000,000 to ₦3,300,000 per yearestimate Source: InfoExpand (2026) Day students; boarding about ₦5.0m to ₦5.5m a session on the same source. | Nursery to secondary on one Lekki campus since 2002, with boarding for the secondary years. |
| 8 | Whitesands School Nigerian · Boys · Day | Lekki | Private, boys, day | ₦1,200,000 to ₦1,800,000 per yearestimate Source: Lagos.cool (2026) Lagos.cool's band; the school gives its schedule at admission. | The boys' school of the pair with Lagoon, since 2005; day only. |
| 9 | Children's International School British · Co-educational · Day | Lekki Phase 1 | Private, British curriculum, day | ₦3,800,000 to ₦5,200,000 per yearestimate Source: Lagos.cool (2026) Lagos.cool's band; the school gives its schedule at admission. | A Lekki Phase 1 British-curriculum day school, nursery through secondary. |
| 10 | Caleb British International School British · Co-educational · Day | Lekki | Private, British curriculum, day | ₦2,000,000 to ₦3,500,000 per yearestimate Source: Lagos.cool (2026) Lagos.cool's band. | The Caleb group's British-curriculum school on the Lekki side. |
| 11 | Loral International Schools Nigerian · Co-educational · Day and boarding | Sangotedo | Private, day and boarding | ₦2,500,000 to ₦4,200,000 per yearestimate Lagos.cool's band for the Festac campus. | The Sangotedo campus of the Festac group, with boarding. |
| 12 | Rainbow College Nigerian · Co-educational · Boarding | Lekki-Ajah | Private, boarding | Not published, ask the school No schedule published by the school or a source we would cite. | A boarding college on the Lekki-Ajah axis, on most boarding shortlists for island families. |
| 13 | New Hall International School Nigerian · Co-educational · Boarding | Sangotedo | Private, boarding | Not published, ask the school No schedule published by the school or a source we would cite. | Named on three of the fourteen independent lists we checked; a boarding campus at Sangotedo. |
| 14 | Lekki Peculiar School Nigerian · Co-educational · Day | Lekki | Private, day | ₦300,000 to ₦600,000 per termestimate Source: Nigeria Private Schools (2025) | Named on two of the fourteen lists. |
| 15 | Chalcedony School Nigerian · Co-educational · Day and boarding | Ibeju-Lekki | Private, day and boarding | ₦300,000 to ₦700,000 per termestimate Source: Nigeria Private Schools (2025) | Named on two of the fourteen lists; on the Ibeju-Lekki side of the corridor. |
| 16 | Jessville International School Nigerian · Co-educational · Day | Ibeju-Lekki | Private, day | ₦150,000 to ₦400,000 per termestimate Source: Nigeria Private Schools (2025) The listed range spans nursery to secondary. | Named on two of the fourteen lists; one of the lower-fee options on the corridor. |
| 17 | Pinefield Schools Nigerian · Co-educational · Day | Lekki | Private, day | Not published, ask the school No schedule published by the school or a source we would cite. | Named on two of the fourteen lists. |
| 18 | Charterhouse Lagos British (IGCSE, A Level) · Co-educational · Day and boarding | Lekki | International, British curriculum, day and boarding | ₦16,100,000 per yearestimate ₦16.1m a year for the youngest years on the published 2025/26 schedule, rising by year group; ₦2m one-time application fee. | The first African campus of the English public school, opened in Lekki in 2024, with published tuition from ₦16.1m a year and a ₦2m application fee; the top of the Lagos fee scale. |
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
Lekki Phase 1 and Ikate
Dowen, Children's International, Lagoon, Whitesands and the older Lekki schools.
Lekki to Ajah
Greensprings, Meadow Hall, BISL, Lekki British, Chrisland Lekki, Caleb British, Charterhouse and Rainbow College.
Sangotedo and Ibeju-Lekki
New Hall, Loral, Chalcedony, Jessville: the newer, lower-fee end of the corridor, and a long drive at school-run time.
What 'best' can and cannot mean in Lekki
No school in Lekki 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 Lekki
How much do secondary schools in Lekki charge?
From ₦150,000 to ₦700,000 a term at the Ibeju-Lekki end, through ₦1.2m to ₦6m a year at the mid-tier schools, to ₦6m to ₦8m at BISL and above ₦16m at Charterhouse. The table gives the figure and its source for each school.
Which Lekki schools have boarding?
Rainbow College and New Hall are boarding only; Greensprings, Dowen, Lekki British, BISL, Meadow Hall, Loral, Chalcedony and Charterhouse offer boarding alongside day places.
Which Lekki schools are single-sex?
Lagoon (girls) and Whitesands (boys); every other school on the list is co-educational.
Is Charterhouse Lagos worth it?
It buys the English public-school model, small classes and a British pathway at the top of the Nigerian fee scale, from ₦16.1m a year in the early years and more above. For a family aiming at a Nigerian university it is not the money's best use; for one aiming abroad it is one of three or four options in the city.
Why does this list not show WAEC pass rates?
Because no Lekki school publishes results in a comparable form and we will not print a number we cannot source.