A three-dimensional view of the campus that moves from dawn to night as you scroll: the clock tower and great hall, four boarding houses whose windows light up in the evening, the classroom block, the dining hall, the library and the sports field, with pupils walking between them on the timetable.
A pupil’s day, from the rising bell to lights out
A boarding school for girls and boys aged 10 to 18. Scroll and the sun moves across our campus as one ordinary, remarkable day unfolds.
The house wakes before the sun
A hand bell in each boarding house, a cold splash of water, beds made to the house standard and a quiet ten minutes before breakfast. Prefects knock on every door so nobody is left behind.
Assembly under the clock tower
The whole school gathers in the great hall for notices, a reading and the week’s house points. Lessons start at eight in classes of no more than 24.
One long table per house
Lunch is served family style, with a teacher at every table and the younger pupils seated beside a prefect. Menus rotate across northern and southern dishes.
Afternoons on the field
Football, athletics, basketball and volleyball, or the debating room, the robotics lab and the music school. Every pupil chooses two activities a term.
Prep by lamplight
Supervised study in the classroom block, with the library open for seniors. Prep is quiet, timed and checked by tutors who stay on campus.
Lights out, house by house
A last call home on house phones for younger pupils on Fridays, then lights out. A housemistress or housemaster sleeps in every house, and the night nurse is on call.
Since 1962
Character first, then everything else
Nobel Heights has prepared northern and national leaders for six decades. We are small on purpose: 640 pupils, 52 resident teachers and four houses where every child is known by name.
Pupils, girls and boys
Most in any class
Teachers living on campus
Of leavers to university, example
Boarding
A second family, with rules and laughter
Every pupil belongs to one of four houses for their whole time here. A housemistress or housemaster lives in, tutors check on every child each evening, and prefects are trained to look after the youngest.
The school
Six ways in
Academics
A broad curriculum, three science labs and teachers who know each pupil’s next step.
Academics
The four houses
Baobab, Tamarind, Neem and Acacia: loyalties that last a lifetime.
Meet the houses
Sport
A full track, two pitches, courts and a pool, used every afternoon.
Sport
Arts and clubs
Choir, drama, chess, robotics, debate and forty more.
Arts and clubs
Pastoral care
A nurse on call day and night, counsellors and a tutor for every pupil.
Pastoral care
Admissions
Entry at JSS1 and SS1, assessments each term and open days most Saturdays.
AdmissionsWhy parents choose us
Four promises we keep
Known by name
Small houses and a personal tutor mean no child slips through. Tutors write to parents every fortnight.
Safe and well
A walled campus, staff on site day and night, a sanatorium with a nurse on call and a clear welfare policy shared with every family.
Ready for what comes next
Careers guidance from SS1, university preparation and a strong network of former pupils.
Rooted in the north, open to the world
Hausa, Arabic and French on the timetable, exchange visits and a school that welcomes every faith and none.
Leavers
Where our leavers go
Medicine, engineering, law, the arts and the family business. Our leavers study at universities across Nigeria and abroad, and come back to speak to the pupils who follow them. Example figures on the academics page.
The senior schoolWe sent a quiet boy. We got back a young man who looks people in the eye.
Hadiza, example parent of a Year 6 leaver
Call our AI line, answered day and night in Nigerian English
Ask about places, fees, open days or travel at any hour. It books visits, sends the prospectus by WhatsApp and passes anything about your child’s welfare straight to a person.
News
Lately at Nobel Heights
Spend a Saturday morning with us
Open days run most Saturdays in term. Walk the houses, sit in a lesson and have lunch with pupils.