Which are the best Birmingham grammar schools near me?

Want to know 2024’s best Birmingham grammar schools? 

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Best 2024 Birmingham grammar schools

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Regional rank / school / national rank

1. King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon (9)
2. King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys, Birmingham (13=)
3. King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls, Birmingham (20)
4. Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls (29)
5. Stratford Girls’ Grammar School (30)
6. Rugby High School (47)
7. King Edward VI Five Ways School, Birmingham (48)
8. Bishop Vesey’s Grammar School, Sutton Coldfield (54)
9. Newport Girls’ High School (64)
10. St Paul’s School for Girls, Edgbaston (90)

 

Best Birmingham comprehensive schools

1. St Paul’s School for Girls, Edgbaston (90)
2. Arden Academy, Solihull (167=)
3. North Leamington School, Leamington Spa (172)
4. Kenilworth School (206)
5. Kings Norton Girls’ School and Sixth Form (209=)

 

Best private schools in the West Midlands

1. King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham (10)
2. Concord College (48)
3. King Edward’s School, Birmingham (52)
4. King’s High School, Warwick (116=)
5. Solihull School (135)
6. RGS Worcester (139)
7. The King’s School, Worcester (143)
8. Wolverhampton Grammar School (152)
9. Edgbaston High School for Girls (154)
10. Warwick School (160)

Best primary schools across Birmingham

  • St Anne’s RC Primary School, Streetly, Streetly
  • Four Oaks Primary School, Sutton Coldfield
  • St Anthony’s RC Primary School, Leamington Spa
  • Nelson Mandela School, Birmingham
  • Berkswich C of E Primary School, Stafford
  • Southam Primary School, Southam
  • Moor Hall Primary School,Sutton Coldfield
  • Park Hall Junior Academy, Walsall
  • St Mary’s RC Primary School,Harbourne
  • Boldmere Junior School,Sutton Coldfield
  • St Bartholomew’s C of E Primary School, Penn
  • Saint Nicholas RC Primary School, Sutton Coldfield, Sutton Coldfield
  • St Mary’s the Mount RC Primary School, Walsall
  • St John Bosco RC Primary School, West Bromwich, West Bromwich
  • Little Sutton Primary School, Sutton Coldfield, Sutton Coldfield
  • Knightlow C of E Primary School, Rugby
  • Claines C of E Primary School, Worcester

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Top Birmingham schools league tables

  • King Edward VI School, is Shakespeare’s school in Stratford-upon-Avon, is The Sunday Times State Secondary School of the Decade.
  • It has shown the greatest improvement over the past 10 years. From 93rd place in 2011, it reached 12th place last year.

Gothic Church Best West Midlands Schools 2021

King Edward School in Birmingham (KES):

  • Won the Sunday Times’  West Midlands Independent School of the Decade.
  • Has had great success offering the international baccalaureate (IB) exclusively in its sixth form.
  • IB results peaked in 2015 with an average point score of 39.4 (out of 45) and it has not dipped below 37.9 since.
  • Offers bursary places and outreach activities; spending £1.5m a year on such assisted places. 
  • 1 in 5 boys benefits from fee remission.
  • Fees are £4,564 per term.
  • 1/2 independent members of The Schools of King Edward VI in Birmingham.

King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys

  • Sunday Times’ West Midlands State Secondary School of the Decade
  • The foundation’s remaining selective schools dominate the West Midlands state school rankings.
  • Took 5 / 20 places, while its other independent member — King Edward VI High School for Girls —has the region’s best results, twice named West Midlands Independent Secondary School of the Year in the past three years.

Our tables below, based on public exam results in 2019, show deep-rooted excellence across the West Midlands. Rugby School — one of the best-known public schools in England — has climbed about 50 places since the middle of the decade.

King’s High School, in Warwick, has new premises in which to continue its steady run of exam success. The girls’ school’s highest ranking of the decade was 64th in 2018 when it was named regional Independent Secondary School of the Year. It shares its new campus with Warwick School, ranked one place below King’s High, and a prep school that serves both, under the Warwick Independent Schools Foundation.

How do I interpret Birmingham school league tables?

The Birmingham school league table rankings are going to be based on the national GCSE and A-Level exams. Non-exam based criteria may are also used to determine the rankings.

You need to conduct your own analysis to determine which Birmingham school best suits your child’s specific needs.

 

Birmingham Ofsted Reports for independent schools

Check the latest Ofsted report too. Each Ofsted report is an analysis of that school’s teachers’ professional competence  Plus, whether Ofsted’s performance standards have been met across the school. There are three possible outcomes: under-achieving; achieving; or outstanding.

When are my independent Birmingham school open days?

So now you need to visit each of your chosen independent schools. Which has the right ethos for your child.

Primarily though, which of the best schools in Birmingham are nearby.

 

Top state secondary schools West Midlands 2021

  1. King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon
  2. The King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys, Birmingham
  3. King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls, Birmingham
  4. Stratford Girls’ Grammar School, Stratford-upon-Avon
  5. Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls
  6. Bishop Vesey’s Grammar School, Sutton Coldfield
  7. Newport Girls’ High School
  8. King Edward VI Five Ways School, Birmingham
  9. Haberdashers’ Adams, Newport
  10. Rugby High School
  11. Queen Mary’s Grammar School, Walsall
  12. Wolverhampton Girls’ High School
  13. Lawrence Sheriff School, Rugby
  14. King Edward VI Handsworth School, Birmingham
  15. Alcester Grammar School
  16. Queen Mary’s High School, Walsall
  17. Tudor Grange Academy, Solihull
  18. Kenilworth School and Sixth Form
  19. King Edward VI Aston School, Birmingham
  20. Kings Norton Girls’ School, Birmingham

Gothic Church Best West Midlands Schools 2021

Top West Midlands independent secondary schools 

  1. King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham
  2. Concord College, Shrewsbury
  3. King Edward’s School, Birmingham
  4. Rugby School
  5. King’s High School, Warwick
  6. Warwick School
  7. Bablake School, Coventry
  8. Edgbaston High School for Girls, Birmingham
  9. Shrewsbury School
  10. Newcastle-under-Lyme School
  11. Shrewsbury High School GDST
  12. RGS Worcester
  13. The King’s School, Worcester
  14. Malvern St James Girls’ School, Great Malvern
  15. Hereford Cathedral School
  16. Moreton Hall, Oswestry
  17. Stafford Grammar School
  18. King Henry VIII School, Coventry
  19. Wolverhampton Grammar School
  20. Solihull Senior School (previously Saint Martin’s, Solihull)

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Best state secondary schools East Midlands 2022

1 Caistor Grammar School
2 Kesteven and Grantham Girls’ School, Grantham
3 Bourne Grammar School
4 Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar, Alford
5 The King’s School, Grantham
6 Spalding High School
7 and Grammar School
8 The Becket School, Nottingham
9 Ecclesbourne School, Belper
10 Queen Elizabeth’s High School, Gainsborough
11 St Mary’s RC High School, Chesterfield
12 Dronfield Henry Fanshawe School
13 Lady Manners School and Sixth Form, Bakewell
14 William Farr C of E Comprehensive School, Lincoln
15 Brookfield Community School, Chesterfield
16 All Saints’ RC Voluntary Academy, Mansfield

Buildings for Best East Midlands Schools 2021

 

Best independent secondary schools East Midlands 2022

1 Nottingham High School
2 Loughborough High School
3 Leicester Grammar School, Great Glen
4 Nottingham Girls’ High School GDST
5 Uppingham School, Oakham
6 Loughborough Grammar School
7 Leicester High School for Girls
8 Repton School, Derby
9 Derby High School
10 Oakham School
11 Ratcliffe College, Leicester
12 Derby Grammar School
13 Stamford High School
14 Trent College, Nottingham
15 The Dixie Grammar School, Market Bosworth
16 Stamford School
17 Lincoln Minster School

 

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