2026 Finalist — Premier of Queensland’s Export Awards
For nearly 30 years, John Paul College International has been recognised as one of Australia’s leading schools for international students under 18. Governments, industry bodies and education experts have all said the same thing — including again this year.
Seven times since 1998, the Queensland Government has shortlisted John Paul College International in the Premier of Queensland’s Export Awards — and once handed us the category outright. Very few schools appear once. We keep coming back.
Earlier still, John Paul College was a finalist with a special mention in the 1995 Awards, before the International College opened. The 2022 win also took us to Canberra as a national finalist at the 60th Australian Export Awards. See the full record
Four bodies. Four different questions. Every answer is on the public record.
Queensland Government
Category winner
Examined how we recruit, teach and care for students from overseas — and has shortlisted us seven times since 1998, most recently in 2026.
2022NEAS Australia
Gold Standard — a first
Examined our High School Preparation English course.
2018IDP Education Australia
Winner — first school ever
Examined us against the whole country, universities included.
2004Australian Education Awards
Excellence Awardee
Examined how we look after students under 18, through the Extended Day Program.
2024
Queensland’s highest export honour. We then represented Queensland as a national finalist at the 60th Australian Export Awards in Canberra.
What it means for your family: the state government assessed how we recruit, teach and care for students from overseas — and rated us the best in Queensland.
Australia’s top national award for international education. John Paul College was the first school ever to win it, in a field dominated by universities. Judges recognised our work in cultural integration, international relations, student mobility and diversification.
What it means for your family: we were doing this work, and doing it well, long before most schools began.
NEAS is Australia’s quality body for English language teaching.
Our High School Preparation Course received the first ever “Gold Standard” Premium Product endorsement in 2018. JPIC Academy, our online learning platform, won the national NEAS Premium Product Award in 2021 and again in 2022.
What it means for your family: the English course your child starts in has been examined by outside experts, not just written in-house.
For our Extended Day Program: after-school tutoring, co-curricular activities, a shared dinner and a tracked bus home, twice a week, for students living away from their parents.
What it means for your family: the hours after the school day, when a student who lives away from home is most on their own, are a program here rather than an afterthought.
Read the storyIn 2026 we are a finalist again. That is not a one-off — independent judges have reviewed us, and recognised us, year after year.
2026 FinalistPremier of Queensland’s Export Awards, International Education and Training
2022 WinnerPremier of Queensland’s Export Awards, International Education and Training
2025The Educator 5-Star Best School
2024The Educator 5-Star Innovative School
2024The Educator 5-Star Sustainable Program
2023The Educator 5-Star Innovative School
John Paul College International is part of John Paul College. Your child is taught on the same campus, by the same College, and shares in everything these awards recognise.
From a local business award in 1991 to national recognition today. Entries marked John Paul College were awarded to the wider College that John Paul College International is part of — not to the International college alone.
JPC Marching Band
Logan Chamber of Commerce
Logan Chamber of Commerce
Albert & Logan News
Logan Chamber of Commerce
Queensland Government
Others followed.
“Your Passport to a Global Future”
Queensland Government
Queensland Government
Queensland Government
Rotary Club of Logan Sunrise
A nationally accredited program for students aged 9 to 12 from non-English-speaking backgrounds.
Australia’s top national award for international education, in a field dominated by universities.
Queensland International Education Awards — awarded to a John Paul College student.
Hong Kong Australia Business Association
“Lessons Learnt and New Directions in High School Intensive Preparation Programs”
The Colloquium Process
The first course in Australia to receive it. The assessing panel was unanimous.
Queensland Government
Our online learning platform.
Lead Nurturing System — commended by the judges.
Innovation, and Distinguished Contribution
David Ferguson, Director of John Paul International College.
The Educator — four years running. Teachers stay, so your child keeps the same teachers.
Queensland’s highest export honour.
Representing Queensland nationally, in Canberra.
Selected from 495 nominations, for 25 years of study tours and study abroad.
Logan City
A second national win for the platform.
Including Australia’s first Premium Homestay Program.
A second consecutive year.
The Educator
For the Extended Day Program.
Queensland Government
The Australian — assessed on results, facilities, subject breadth and fee accessibility, where the College ranked among the most affordable on the list. Read the story
The Educator
Recognised again this year.
No entries in this period for that category.
Leading is not a claim you make. It is a list of things that did not exist in Australian schools until we built them.
We were the first Australian school to recruit directly in China. Others followed.
Australia’s first nationally accredited program for students aged 9 to 12 from non-English-speaking backgrounds. Judges gave it special commendation.
Our Colloquium Process brought outside experts in to challenge our own curriculum. The result: a course that builds confidence and study skills, not only English.
Students stay at school until 6pm twice a week for tutoring, activities and a shared dinner, then a tracked bus home. A new benchmark for student care in Australia.
Awards are earned. Accreditation is the floor — the checks a school must pass before it can teach international students in Australia at all.
Our registration on the Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas Students, which every Australian provider must hold to enrol international students on a student visa.
Quality endorsement for English language teaching, including gold-standard Premium Product Endorsement for the High School Preparation Course.
Member of the peak body for Queensland’s independent schools.
Member of the national association for the English language sector.
Rankings are a starting point, not an answer. The Top 100 judges looked at fees as well as results. That is why our place on that list means more than results alone: a strong school your family can afford.
The awards also tell you where a school puts its effort. Ours has gone into the parts a parent overseas cannot see — the English course, the homestay families, the hours after 3pm. That is what independent judges keep returning to.
Read this page alongside our academic results, which are the numbers behind it, and our university pathways for international students. Our guide to choosing an international school lists the questions worth asking. Some of them are questions we would rather you asked us directly.
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Awards are one kind of proof. A visit is another. Come and meet our teachers, see our classrooms, and ask us anything.