As of March 2023[update], Bridge has schools in Uganda, Nigeria, Liberia, and India in addition to Kenya, and is the world's largest for-profit primary education chain.

[10] In 2016, Bridge expanded to Liberia as part of the Liberian Education Advancement Program (LEAP) that selected eight private companies to take over 93 public schools.

[7] In May 2016, Bridge accused Curtis Riep, a University of Alberta PhD candidate in the Department of Educational Policy Studies, of trespassing and impersonating its staff.

[7][14][15][16] In November 2016, the High Court of Uganda ruled that the national government could close the 63 Bridge schools in the country because they were operating without required licenses.

In February 2018, the Kenyan High Court dismissed an application for an interim injunction barring KNUT and its leadership from criticizing Bridge.

[7] According to a March 2023 report by The Intercept, in 2016 a teacher at a Bridge school in the Mukuru slums of Nairobi had sexually assaulted at least 11 girls between the ages of 10 and 14 since at least 2015.

[7] In March 2018, EACHRights, a Kenyan non-profit, submitted a formal complaint about Bridge to the Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman, an accountability office within the World Bank.

In April 2020, after discussions with African stakeholders, Representative Maxine Waters, the chair of the United States House Committee on Financial Services, made the funding the World Bank was seeking from Congress conditional on the International Finance Corporation looking into divesting from Bridge.

[7][18] After the 2016 abuse story came to light, Bridge created a Critical Incident Advisory Unit, added additional training on preventing grooming, and asked staff to re-sign the "Child champion promise" in 2020.

[39] After the president of the World Bank Jim Yong Kim praised Bridge Schools in 2015, there was a large push-back from organisations in Kenya and Uganda, disagreeing with his statement.

[40] Others have argued that their model, focused on guided instruction, actually enhances creativity similar to the way musicians use sheet music or actors have scripts.

It states that 'the suggestion that $6 is an acceptable amount of money for poor households to pay reveals a profound lack of understanding of the reality of the lives of the poorest”.