The Whitesands School, Lekki- Lagos celebrates its students for recording outstanding performance in the just concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) with over 40 percent of students scoring 300+ out of 400 marks obtainable.
Whitesands School registered 70 students for 2025 UTME conducted by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), and nearly half of the students crossed the 300 mark and the other half followed closely behind, scoring not less than 249 out of the 400 marks obtainable.
According to information made available by the school’s management to BusinessDay, “28 students scored 300 and above (40 percent), 36 students scored 250 to 299 marks (51 percent), and three students scored 200 to 249 marks (four percent).”
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Speaking about the landmark performance of the 70 students registered for the 2025 UTME, the school management stated, “We are proud of each and every one of them, they’ve all put in the work and gotten excellent results. Join us to celebrate them!”
Whitesands School, a project of Ikota Educational Foundation (IEF), is a boys’ day secondary school, open to students of all backgrounds, without religious, cultural or ethnic discrimination.
The school began its first classes on October 2, 2000. The school follows the educational model of successful, parents-promoted educational institutions that have been in existence in many parts of the world for over four decades.
The school’s educational model is based on the set of principles that ensures adequate training for each student, both at school and in the family.
At the request of IEF, the Prelature of Opus Dei, an institution of the Catholic Church, provides spiritual and doctrinal formation to the students, staff, and parents of the school, without assuming legal or moral responsibility for the school.
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The school follows the Nigerian National Curriculum for secondary schools which consist of three years of junior secondary and three years of senior secondary schooling which qualifies the students to sit for the West African Senior Secondary Certificate of Education (WASSCE) examinations.
This curriculum is widened to accommodate the Cambridge IGCSE and the SAT. The school places a lot of value on personal formation. By personal formation, it refers to the entire education that a student receives at Whitesands School.
The academic programme, extra and co-curricular activities, advisory system and spiritual means of formation, and even the facilities all contribute to the formation of a person with intellect and will. Everything done in Whitesands is done for the sake of the total personal development of the students.
Over 70 percent of the graduates pursue their university studies abroad, mainly the UK, US and Canadian universities including the top universities such as Harvard College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Imperial College, Oxford University, and University of Toronto, among others.
