Lagos Preparatory & Secondary School

In Brief

A genuinely small British school in Ikoyi - the kind where the head knows every child's name by the end of September. If you're self-funding and want the Ikoyi location with class sizes under 20 and a first-class IGCSE track record, LPSS is worth the conversation. Budget carefully for the first-year one-time fees, which add over NGN 2 million on top of tuition.

Lagos Preparatory and Secondary School on Glover Road, Ikoyi, is one of the few schools in Lagos that can honestly claim to be small by design. With class sizes consistently under 20 across EYFS through Year 11, teachers track individual progress in a way that larger schools cannot. The first IGCSE cohort produced 100% A*/A/B grades; the school also holds 100% ABRSM music pass rates and 100% LAMDA distinctions, which tells you something about how seriously it takes performance beyond exams. It was the first international school in Nigeria to receive the Every Child Matters award in 2010.

Annual tuition runs from NGN 2,772,000 (EYFS Pre-Nursery) to NGN 7,722,000 (Year 11 IGCSE), paid in three terms. The Ikoyi location on Glover Road is accessible from Victoria Island and central Ikoyi without hitting the worst of Lekki traffic. The school follows the full English National Curriculum from EYFS through IGCSE, with Cambridge as the examining body. Admissions are selective and rolling; contact the school directly at [email protected].

The school stops at Year 11, so families planning a full 18-year journey at one school need to factor in a secondary transition at post-16. One-time entry fees in the first year are significant: development levy (NGN 1,200,000), joining fee (NGN 700,000), acceptance fee (NGN 200,000) and a refundable caution deposit (NGN 250,000) add up quickly alongside the application fee. Ask at admissions which of these are revisited if siblings follow.