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A ‘Commonwealth Model School’ title designates the most elite schools in the entire Western world.

The prestigious informal honour is considered the highest and most difficult honour a high school can achieve.

The international honour indicates that the school has attained the highest standard of an ‘all-rounded, liberal education’ according to British tradition, demonstrating that the school has achieved the very highest of international accolades in academics, sport, and oratory. In British ideals and tradition, academics, sport, and oratory are most strongly conceptualised through mathematics and sciences, rowing, and debate respectively.

'Commonwealth Model School' Criteria
Specifically, the criteria is that a school must produce all of the following:


 * 1) Three Gold Medals at the 3 most difficult International Science Olympiads: the International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO), the International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) and the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI). At least one Gold Medal must be from the IMO.
 * 2) A World Champion Rower at the World Rowing Junior Championships
 * 3) A World Champion Debater at the World Schools Debating Championships (WSDC)

List of 'Commonwealth Model Schools'
Only the following schools worldwide fulfil the criteria of a 'Commonwealth Model School':

United States of America:


 * Phillips Exeter Academy
 * Phillips Academy, Andover

United Kingdom:


 * Eton College
 * St Paul’s School, London
 * Westminster School, London

Australia:


 * Sydney Grammar School

Comments
All school taught Latin as a compulsory subject. Phillips Academy Andover and Phillips Exeter Academy have now ceased compulsory Latin. Sydney Grammar, Eton, St Paul’s, and Westminster still today have mandatory Latin for all students.

This honour is known for its simplicity and extreme difficulty. Despite only 3 simple requirements, the honour has proven fundamentally very difficult to achieve and to date, less than 10 schools out of more than 1 million high schools worldwide have achieved it including none in Asia, Africa, South America, and Canada. Each of these schools is also very often the wealthiest, most influential, and most highly resourced school of its country since each accolade requires huge resources and vastly different skillsets and expertise.