About — Olives Academy

Our Story

Built on a
conviction.

Olives Academy was founded by educators who believed that Ibadan deserved a school that could hold its head up in any conversation about elite education — anywhere in the world.

The name is deliberate. The olive tree grows slowly, puts roots down deep, and produces fruit for hundreds of years. It is not a tree for the impatient. Neither is the kind of education we offer.

From our first cohort to today, we have held to one standard: every student who leaves Olives Academy must be more capable, more grounded, and more ready for the world than when they arrived.

"Most schools teach students what to think. We teach them how."

— Founding Charter, Olives Academy

Our Values

Six things we
stand on, always.

These values are not slogans on a wall. They are the criteria by which we hire, the language we use with students, and the standard against which we hold ourselves.

🎯

Excellence

We pursue the highest standard in everything — not because we must, but because we believe our students deserve nothing less.

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Integrity

We do what is right, even when it is inconvenient. We model it, we expect it, and we hold ourselves accountable to it first.

🔍

Curiosity

We celebrate the student who asks difficult questions. Learning begins where certainty ends, and we cultivate that edge.

🤝

Service

We form students who understand that their gifts are not for themselves alone. Leadership at Olives always points outward.

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Resilience

We teach students to fail well and recover fast. The measure of a person is not whether they fall, but how they rise.

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Community

We are a school, not a service. Every student, teacher, and family is part of something larger than themselves here.

From the Principal

We hold ourselves to a simple standard: when our students leave these gates, they must be ready — not just for university, but for life. That readiness comes from rigour, from care, and from a community that believes deeply in what it is building here.

The Principal

Olives Academy · Ibadan

Our faculty are selected not just for their academic credentials, but for their conviction that teaching is a vocation. Every educator at Olives Academy is here because they choose to be — and that makes all the difference.

We are proud of the examination results our students achieve. We are prouder still of who they become — and how they treat the people around them on the way there.

A school with
a point of view.

Built on a
conviction.

Six things we
stand on, always.

Ready to see it
for yourself?

A school witha point of view.

Built on aconviction.

Six things westand on, always.

Ready to see itfor yourself?

A school with
a point of view.

Built on a
conviction.

Six things we
stand on, always.

Ready to see it
for yourself?