At Avi-Cenna Secondary School we value all students for who they are and for what they can become.   We aim to provide a rigourous and effective education in an enabling environment, and one which inculcates in students a desire to learn, contribute, while feeling safe and confident.

The vision of Avi-Cenna International School nursed in the minds of its founders, Mr. and Mrs. Foudeh, where it received continuous nourishment until 1989 when it caught its first glimpse of reality. Mr. and Mrs. Foudeh are Jordanian immigrants who nurture a vision to provide quality international education to pupils in an enabling and inspiring environment. They wish to instill in young minds that there are no boundaries in education.   The name of the school emanates from the name of a great scholar, role model, mentor and philosopher, Avi-Cenna, who lived between 986 and 1037. He was popularly known as “The Prince of Physicians” because of his huge contribution to the field of medicine. He wrote the masterpiece: “Qanun” when he was 21 years old and it remained the principal authority in medicine for several centuries in Europe and Asia. Avi-Cenna mastered the fields of physics, metaphysics, mathematics and logic before he was 16 years.   Avi-Cenna is now a well-established co-educational British Curriculum School, catering for pupils from Pre-School to Secondary. The School serves both the Nigerian community and expatriates who are seeking a British Education in Lagos. It is a truly international school with 600 pupils from approximately 30 different nationalities.   What began as a little splash in the water has evolved into a tidal wave bearing pupils, teachers, and parents alike to heights which could not even have been conceived at the school’s inception. Successful alumni, proud teachers and proud parents have all had heart-warming things to say about their time at Avi-Cenna.   Our alumni success stories speak for themselves.  Olaoluwa Okelola (class of 2002)  is one of Mark Zuckerberg’s (Facebook founder) most trusted software engineers and Daniel Adeyileka (class of 2009), is Nigeria’s youngest pilot. We are also proud to have produced sporting champions such as Dele Alli who now plays for the Premier League club, Tottenham Hot Spurs and the England national team as well as rising basketball star, Charles Bassey, one of the NBA’s top draft picks for 2019. With stories like these, one can deduce that our pupils are guaranteed the right foundation to activate their potential and achieve their dreams.   While we cherish our history, we acknowledge that the world is changing and our pupils will have to adapt in a rapidly evolving world. At Avi-Cenna, we equip our pupils with the necessary critical thinking, technological, communication, networking, initiative and entrepreneurship skills to adapt and survive in the 21st century.  As we ride the ever growing wave of pupil successes and achievements, we too continually evolve, as our motto says, to provide quality “education for a changing world.”