The top 425 independent secondary schools Boys Girls M Mixed sixth form
2013 2012 School Rank Rank
Town
1 2
1 6
3
7
4
10
5 6
4 9
7=
5
7=
2
9
23
10
11
11
13
12= 12= 14 15
16 3 8 24
16
17
17
14=
18
28=
19
14=
20 21
12 48
22 23
33 44
24=
26
24= 24=
25 31=
27 28
31= 27
29
30
30
43
31
18
32 33 34
38 20 67
St Paul's Girls' School North London Collegiate School City of London School For Girls Magdalen College School Westminster School King's College School, Wimbledon Guildford High School for Girls Wycombe Abbey School James Allen's Girls' School Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls Stephen Perse Foundation and Sixth Form College Brighton College St Paul's School Eton College The Royal Grammar School, Guildford The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School The Lady Eleanor Holles School The Godolphin and Latymer School Withington Girls' School Sevenoaks School St Mary's School, Ascot Tonbridge School Putney High School GDST St Helen and St Katharine The Perse School St Albans High School for Girls City of London School The Manchester Grammar School Merchant Taylors' School Harrow School Oxford High School GDST Alleyn's School Hampton School St Mary's Calne
A-level A-level A(%A*/A) (%A*/B) level rank 93 98.3 3= 80.3 98.1 5
GCSE GCSE Entry (%A*/A) rank Gender
London Edgware
Alevel (%A*) 43.7 42.7
99.5 97.9
1 2
London
31.5
81.1
98.3
3=
96.5
4
Oxford
45.4
91.7
99.1
1
94.8
12
M
London London
45.5 52
85.5 86.5
97.2 97.4
13 12
97.9 96
3 5
M M
Guildford
42
87.7
98.4
2
93.5
19
High Wycombe
39.6
85.3
97.6
9
95
10
London
27.9
82.7
97.7
8
94.3
14
Borehamwood
28.9
80.4
97.8
7
93.9
17
Cambridge
41.4
81.8
97.5
11
94.1
15
Brighton London Windsor Guildford
24.4 45 39.5 37.8
74.2 86 82.8 80.1
96.3 96 95.8 96.3
15 17 19 14
95.4 95.9 94.5 93.2
8 6 13 20
Elstree
43
79.1
96
18
93.7
18
Hampton
37
83
95
24
95.2
9
Hammersmith
30.4
77.2
96
16
92.4
21
Manchester
37.6
80.4
93.5
39
95.7
7
Sevenoaks Ascot
41.9 27.9
84.6 72.1
97.8 93.2
6 42
85.8 94.8
49 11
Tonbridge Putney
33.3 23.5
76.7 69.9
94.3 95.6
30 20
92.1 88.3
22 37
Abingdon
32.5
80.1
93.9
36
91.5
25
Cambridge St Albans
31.4 36.4
76.5 82.2
94.6 95.1
29 22
90.2 89.1
28 33=
London Manchester
35.9 26
72.9 70.9
94.2 93.2
32 41
90.4 91.3
27 26
Northwood
29.2
73.3
93.9
34
89.5
30
Harrow on the Hill Oxford
25.8
71
93.6
38
89.7
29
25.8
73.4
92.3
45
92.1
23
Dulwich Hampton Calne
24.8 28.1 31.1
71.6 72.6 68.3
95 93.3 94
26 40 33
86.5 89.2 87
44 32 40
M
35
41
36 37
57 21=
38
19
39 40 41 42 43
34 35 45 28= 21=
44 45 46
46 59 71
47 48 49=
69 39 73
49= 51 52
75 47 54
53
49
54 55 56 57 58 59 60
60 40 64= 37 68 52= 74
61 62 63
89= 52= 55
64
72
65 66
99 82
67 68
91 70
69 70=
63 36
70=
50
72= 72=
84 80
74 75
64= 61
76
62
77 78
95 119
79
83
80 81
110
Notting Hill and Ealing High School GDST The Abbey School South Hampstead High School GDST Manchester High School for Girls St Swithun's School Channing School Benenden School Latymer Upper School The Cheltenham Ladies' College Concord College Wellington College King Edward's School, Birmingham Badminton School St Albans School University College School, Hampstead St Helen's School Abingdon School Bancroft's School St Catherine's, Bramley Dulwich College Highgate School Trinity School Radley College Oundle School The Grange School Loughborough High School Eltham College Norwich School Royal Grammar School Sir William Perkins's School Walthamstow Hall Francis Holland School, Regent's Park King's High School Wimbledon High School GDST Caterham School King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham Nottingham Girls’ High School GDST Canford School The King's School, Canterbury Tormead School Kingston Grammar School Nottingham High School King Edward's School The King's School, Chester St John's College, Cardiff Winchester College Exeter School
Ealing
28.2
70.2
91.5
48
91.9
24
Reading Hampstead
30.7 21.8
73.5 64.2
95 94.8
25 27
84.7 84.3
53 54
Manchester
25.9
66.6
93.9
37
85.5
51
Winchester London Cranbrook Hammersmith Cheltenham
32.7 30.4 28.2 25.5 28.1
80.8 71.3 71.1 64.7 73.5
94.2 93.9 95.4 87.6 89.9
31 35 21 75 53
82.2 82 79 94 89
58 59 69 16 35
Shrewsbury Crowthorne Birmingham
37.1 39.4 30.4
78.5 69.4 69.9
94.8 92.1 88.3
28 46 68
77.5 82 89.4
76 60 31
Bristol St Albans Hampstead
29.3 20.4 24.9
71.3 67.1 65.1
89.5 92.7 89.4
55 44 57
87 80.2 86.5
41 66 46
Northwood Abingdon Woodford Green Guildford
22 25.2 25.8
64.7 63.5 62.8
89.6 90.4 89.4
54 52 58
86.1 84 85.8
47 55 50
31.1
70.8
90.8
49
82.8
56
Dulwich Highgate Croydon Abingdon Peterborough Northwich Loughborough
25.4 26.4 20.5 18.4 18.7 20.3 25.3
66.1 66.3 58.7 59.8 59.9 62.7 67
90.5 88.2 88.7 87.9 87.6 85.5 90.6
51 69 64 71 76 94 50
82.5 86.6 85 86.5 85.9 89.1 77
57 42 52 45 48 33= 79
London Norwich Newcastle upon Tyne Chertsey
27.6 26.4 31.7
73.1 66.3 70.6
91.7 87.9 87.2
47 72 80
74 81.1 81.9
96 62 61
32.1
71.6
89.3
59
77
78
Sevenoaks London
23.4 14.1
60.4 56.3
87.4 86.7
79 82
80.5 81
64 63
Warwick Wimbledon
17.3 19.5
57.5 60.5
87.6 83.3
74 119
78.7 87.1
71 39
Caterham Birmingham
22.4 22.4
62.4 61.9
88 81.7
70 145
77.6 87.8
75 38
Nottingham
25.3
69.4
88.9
61
73.4
99
Wimborne Canterbury
31.7 20.9
67 59.5
87.6 86.2
73 84
75.4 78.2
87 73
Guildford Kingston upon Thames Nottingham
19.1 22.1
62.8 61.1
86.2 86.1
86 87
77.1 76.9
77 80
25
66.4
88.6
66
71.5
110
Bath Chester
24.9 25.2
61.8 63.2
84.3 88.7
109 63
80 71.1
67 113
Cardiff
26.4
71.5
93.1
43
61.9
182
Winchester Exeter
30.3 17.8
65.5 55.8
79.8 83.6
165 118
88.4 80.3
36 65
M M
M
M
82 83
42 51
84 85
58 89=
86 87
85 158
88 89
144 179=
90
101
91= 91= 93 94= 94=
98 260 79 170 120
94= 97
207 134
98
188
99
115
100
81
Headington School City of London Freemen's School Whitgift School Stockport Grammar School Downe House School Norwich High School GDST Ibstock Place School Queen Ethelburga's College Howell's School Llandaff GDST The Maynard School Birkenhead School Warwick School Godolphin School Wakefield Girls' High School Ashford School The Red Maids' School Streatham and Clapham High School GDST Bromley High School GDST King Edward VI School
Oxford Ashtead
24.7 18.6
64.2 55
84.6 83.2
105 123
78.1 78.9
74 70
South Croydon Stockport
21.3 16.5
57.8 56.6
86.2 86.7
85 81
72.6 71.5
102 111
Thatcham Norwich
21.7 18.2
54.2 57.3
79 88.8
176= 62
86.6 66.9
43 152=
Roehampton York
13.7 30.8
49 80.8
84.3 97.6
108 10
75.8 48.6
86 286
Cardiff
22.9
59.5
84.7
103
73.8
98
Exeter Wirral Warwick Salisbury Wakefield
22 21.1 19.1 15.3 18.7
60.4 54.9 55.3 63.3 50
85.7 84.6 83.9 83.6 82.9
92= 106 116 117 126
71.8 74.1 75.2 75.1 76.4
107 95 91 92 83
Ashford Bristol
23.4
58.7
84 86.2
112 83
74.3 69.7
93 120
Streatham
20.2
59.5
89.3
60
63.3
173
Bromley
10.3
51.9
84
113
73.4
100
Southampton
28
69.1
87.5
77
66
158
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