News · November 8, 2026
Part of a growing global community: the IB Impact Report 2025
The International Baccalaureate has released its 2025 Impact Report, a look at a year of growth across the worldwide IB community. As an IB World School, Creation Village is one small part of that story, and the report shows how wide that community has become.
The IB by the numbers
- 6,123 IB World Schools by the end of 2025
- 2,169,288 students in IB programmes
- 8,844 IB programmes worldwide, including 622 newly authorized in 2025
- 98.3% of IB programmes stayed with the IB, a sign that schools value what it offers
- 327,438 students registered for IB exams in 2025, including 117,106 full Diploma candidates
- 262,217 IB educators worldwide, with 17,172 new educators registered this year
More than one path to a good future
The report gives special attention to the Career-related Programme, which it calls the place where future-ready skills "find their most direct and immediate expression." It notes a growing recognition, including in a 2025 New York Times feature on the CP, that a four-year degree is not the only route to success. The Times described how CP students "take on big ethical questions" while also focusing on "professional writing, public speaking and disagreeing respectfully." Those are the same skills our CP juniors and seniors build alongside their university and industry partners.
Preparing for a changing world
The IB is also adding new learning for the years ahead. A new Diploma Programme course, Systems Transformation, asks students to study challenges such as climate change and technology as connected systems and then design real projects to improve them. It is being piloted now and is planned for schools worldwide by 2030. The IB also published guidance on artificial intelligence that takes a careful, values-led approach to learning in an age of new technology.
Young people trusted to lead
Some of the report's most encouraging stories are about students. More than 1,400 students from 92 countries applied for 12 places on the IB's first Youth Advisory Council, which now works directly with IB leadership. The IB's Global Youth Action Fund supported 110 student-led projects in 44 countries, reaching more than 102,000 community members. From school gardens to clean water campaigns, students are putting their learning to work in service of others.
Why it matters here
As the IB's Director General writes, an IB education "is not only about what you know. It is about what you can and are motivated to do with what you know." At Creation Village, that conviction sits alongside our Christian faith: we want students to learn deeply, live with purpose and serve their neighbours. We are proud to offer the IB Primary Years, Middle Years and Career-related Programmes, and to be a candidate school for the Diploma Programme, with our first cohort planned for August 2027.
Read about what the research says about the DP and CP, explore our Upper School, or book a tour.
Source: International Baccalaureate, 2025 Impact Report. Student figures are IB estimates.
