Slum2School Green Academy, located in Epe, Lagos State, has been named among the Top 10 shortlists for the prestigious World’s Best School Prizes 2026. The announcement, confirmed by Vanguard News, represents a remarkable achievement for a school that was established to serve some of Lagos’s most marginalised communities, and places it alongside institutions from across the globe in one of the most competitive education recognition programmes in the world.
What the World’s Best School Prizes Are
Established by T4 Education in 2022 in response to challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the World’s Best School Prizes are five global education awards that showcase schools making extraordinary differences in their communities. The categories celebrate innovation, community engagement, environmental action, and transformative outcomes for students who face significant disadvantages.
Making the Top 10 shortlist means Slum2School Green Academy has been assessed and recognised among the most impactful educational institutions on the planet. For a school serving children in one of Nigeria’s most economically vulnerable communities, that recognition is genuinely extraordinary.
What Slum2School Does
Slum2School is a volunteer-driven social enterprise and NGO that has spent over a decade reaching children in underserved slum communities across Lagos and other Nigerian cities. The Green Academy in Epe represents its physical school presence, combining quality education with environmental sustainability and community empowerment principles.
The school targets children who are most at risk of being permanently excluded from education, providing not just classroom instruction but also mentorship, nutrition support, and the kind of consistent adult investment that many of its students have never previously experienced. Furthermore, the green and sustainability dimension of the curriculum prepares students for an economy where environmental awareness will be increasingly valuable.
Nigeria’s Education Moment
Nigeria faces serious and well-documented challenges in its education sector. Out-of-school children, teacher shortages, inadequate infrastructure, and underfunded state education budgets are persistent concerns. Against that backdrop, a Lagos school making the global Top 10 offers a different kind of story: proof that exceptional educational outcomes are achievable in Nigeria, even with limited resources, when vision, commitment, and community partnership come together.
Slum2School Green Academy’s recognition is not just a celebration for Epe. It is a challenge to the entire Nigerian education system about what is possible when children are treated as the priority they deserve to be.
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