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Best International Schools in Vancouver
The top-rated international schools in Vancouver include Collingwood School, Meadowridge School, Mulgrave School. BrightKey has independently rated 6 schools on verifiable public data — ordered by inspection & accreditation tier, with no payments from any school.
What “best” means here
This is not a paid ranking — no school can buy a position. Order follows our transparent tier: in markets with a graded public inspectorate (e.g. Dubai's KHDA), by the verifiable inspection band; where there is none, by accreditation depth and curriculum authorisation, capped at A. Within a tier, schools are listed alphabetically. School-reported university placement is always flagged and never tiered.
Read the full tiering methodology.
A well-established West Vancouver independent day school delivering the BC curriculum with a broad Advanced Placement offering; a strong four-strand (academics, arts, athletics, service) programme with no published external graded band.
An independent, coeducational IB Continuum World School in Maple Ridge, British Columbia (about 55 minutes from Vancouver), delivering all three IB programmes (PYP, MYP, DP) alongside the BC Ministry of Education curriculum on a 35-acre campus. Tier capped at A: Canada has provincial ministry oversight of curriculum but no single graded public inspectorate that publishes an Outstanding/Good-style band per school.
West Vancouver's flagship full-continuum IB World School — a co-educational, gender-inclusive, secular day school running all three IB programmes (PYP, MYP, DP) unbroken from preschool (age 3) to Grade 12. A not-for-profit independent school on a Cypress Bowl mountainside campus, accredited by CIS, CAIS and ISABC, with a genuinely international community (families from 37 countries) and a low 7:1 student ratio. A strong fit for families wanting a single, internationally-portable IB pathway through the whole of a child's schooling; less suited to families seeking boarding, a faith-based school, or a lower fee point.
A long-established, well-accredited independent boys' day and boarding school delivering the BC curriculum in Vancouver.
A strong, fully-accredited IB continuum school delivering the Primary, Middle Years and Diploma programmes from Kindergarten to Grade 12 on a single Vancouver campus.
A well-established, accredited independent JK–12 day school with a broad AP-enriched BC curriculum, strong language offering, and a low student-teacher ratio.
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