Another exam season, another clean sweep. Across FSLC, Common Entrance, GCE Ordinary Level and GCE Advanced Level, Rainbow School Complex's 2026 results confirm what parents in Dschang have come to expect: a 100% pass rate that reaches every candidate, not just the strongest.
Cameroon's exam calendar released its verdicts in stages this year — primary results in June, GCE Ordinary and Advanced Level results on 10 August — and each stage told the same story from Rainbow Foreke, Rainbow Foto, Rainbow Integral College (RIC) and RAIBICOL. Here is the full breakdown, section by section.
Primary results: FSLC and Common Entrance
Rainbow Bilingual Kindergarten and Primary School — Foreke closed the 2025–2026 academic year with a candidate on the honour roll at both the First School Leaving Certificate (FSLC) and the Government Common Entrance examination: an exceptional result for a single campus to produce at both levels in the same year.
Combined with the steady 100% Common Entrance and FSLC record both Foreke and Foto have built since 2009, this year's honour-roll placements add to a primary section that has rarely finished a session outside the top of the West Region.
GCE Ordinary Level: every candidate, every paper
Forty-eight candidates from RAIBICOL sat the GCE Ordinary Level this year. All forty-eight passed.
At the top of the cohort, two candidates finished with 32 points — a results profile built on ten A grades and one B grade. At the bottom of the ranked list, the last three candidates passed with six papers each. A 100% pass rate is easy to claim when it only describes the strongest students. Rainbow's reaches the full cohort.
GCE Advanced Level: strength across Upper Sixth
Thirty-three candidates sat the Advanced Level this year in Upper Sixth. Close to fifteen of them passed in all five subjects sat — a demanding standard, since five subjects is the maximum a candidate can be examined in at this level.
Leading the cohort, two candidates achieved 23 points, with a profile of four A grades and one C grade — a continuation of the Advanced Level strength RAIBICOL has shown since the section's results were first published, including 100% in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025.
Why these results keep repeating
A single good year can be luck. Sixteen consecutive years of it is not. Three things show up consistently behind Rainbow's exam record:
- Routine, not cramming. Supervised evening study, consistent timetables and steady correction build exam readiness months before the exam hall — see our post on how discipline and routine quietly build exam success.
- Bilingual instruction from the start. Pupils who are genuinely comfortable working in both English and French are not translating under exam pressure — they already think in both. Read more on why bilingual education gives your child an advantage.
- Boarding structure at RAIBICOL. Supervised prep every evening, a fixed study routine and a distraction-free campus give Upper and Lower Sixth candidates more focused hours than a day-school schedule allows.
What this means if you are choosing a school for 2026/2027
Exam results are the clearest, most checkable evidence a school can offer a prospective parent. They cannot be adjusted after the fact, and they are published for anyone to verify. Rainbow's full year-by-year archive — including the handful of sessions that landed just under 100% — is public on the Academic Results page, alongside named honour-roll candidates where the school has chosen to publish them.
Admissions for the 2026/2027 academic year are open now across all four campuses — Foreke, Foto, RIC and RAIBICOL. Places for boarding at RAIBICOL are allocated in order of registration, so families weighing a move for the exam years ahead should not wait until the new term to start the conversation.
Frequently asked questions
At GCE Ordinary Level, points are awarded per subject grade and totalled across a candidate's best papers — an A is worth more than a B, a B more than a C, and so on. A profile built mostly on A grades, such as this year's leading Rainbow candidates, sits at the top of the national scale. At Advanced Level, the same idea applies across up to five subjects, so five A grades is the maximum a candidate can achieve.
Rainbow has recorded 100% or close to 100% at GCE Ordinary Level, GCE Advanced Level, FSLC and Common Entrance in the great majority of sessions since its first batch in 2009. The full year-by-year archive, including the occasional year that fell just under 100%, is public on the Academic Results page.
The Academic Results page holds the complete public summary by section and by year, alongside named honour-roll candidates where the school has chosen to publish them.