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Top Southern schools 2023
How do the best south east private schools compare to the top UK secondary schools?
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1 Pate’s Grammar School, Cheltenham
2 Colyton Grammar School
3 Stroud High School
4 Torquay Girls’ Grammar School
5 South Wilts Grammar School, Salisbury
6 Bishop Wordsworth’s School, Salisbury
7 Torquay Boys’ Grammar School
8 Sir Thomas Rich’s School, Gloucester
9 Bournemouth School for Girls
10 Denmark Road High School, Gloucester
11 Parkstone Grammar School, Poole
12 Poole Grammar School
13 Bournemouth School
14 Devonport High School for Girls, Plymouth
15 Marling School, Stroud
16 Churston Ferrers Grammar School, Brixham
17 The Crypt School, Gloucester
18 Balcarras School, Cheltenham
19 Devonport High School for Boys, Plymouth
20 The Cotswold School, Cheltenham
Top independent secondary schools Southwest 2022
1 Cheltenham Ladies’ College
2 St Mary’s Calne
3 Exeter School
4 Badminton School, Bristol
5 King Edward’s School, Bath
6 Marlborough College
7 Queen Elizabeth’s Hospital, Bristol
8 The Maynard School, Exeter
9 Redmaids’ High School, Bristol
10 Canford School, Wimborne
11 Bristol Grammar School
12 The Royal High School Bath GDST
13 Dauntsey’s School, Devizes
14= Sherborne Girls
14= Monkton School, Bath
16 Talbot Heath, Bournemouth
17 Kingswood School, Bath
18 Sherborne School
19 The Ladies’ College, Guernsey
20 Godolphin School, Salisbury
Which are the top south east schools 2022?
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Best south primary schools 2022
| 4 | 11 | South Farnham School | Farnham | 338 |
| 8 | 19= | Portswood Primary School | Southampton | 336 |
| 10 | 27= | Sheredes Primary School | Hoddesdon | 335 |
| 12= | 47= | Holy Trinity C of E Primary School, Cookham | Maidenhead | 334 |
| 13= | 35= | Harvey Road Primary School | Rickmansworth | 334 |
| 14= | 47= | Christ Church Chorleywood C of E School | Chorleywood | 334 |
| 15= | 47= | Middleton Primary School | Milton Keynes | 334 |
| 16= | 47= | Hillborough Junior School, Luton | Luton | 334 |
| 17= | 47= | Wood End School | Harpenden | 334 |
| 18 | 43= | St Nicholas C of E VA Primary School | Harpenden | 334 |
| 21= | 66= | Castleview Primary School | Slough | 333 |
| 22 | 74= | Kingsdown and Ringwould C of E Primary School | Deal | 333 |
| 25= | 106= | St Dominic Savio RC Primary School | Woodley | 332 |
| 26= | 106= | St Faith’s C of E Primary School, Winchester | Winchester | 332 |
| 27= | 90= | Spinfield School, Marlow | Marlow | 332 |
| 28= | 106= | Chorleywood Primary School | Rickmansworth | 332 |
| 29= | 90= | St Paul’s RC Primary School, Tilehurst | Reading | 332 |
| 30= | 90= | St Alban’s RC Primary School | East Molesey | 332 |
Best private schools in the UK
Top Southeastern State Secondary Schools 2022
1 Reading School
2 Tonbridge Grammar School
3 Kendrick School, Reading
4 Dartford Grammar School
5 The Judd School, Tonbridge
6 Dame Alice Owen’s School, Potters Bar
7 Hockerill Anglo-European College, Bishop’s Stortford
8 Dr Challoner’s Grammar School, Amersham
9 Tunbridge Wells Girls’ Grammar School
10 Sir William Borlase’s Grammar School, Marlow
11 Beaconsfield High School
12 The Skinners’ School, Tunbridge Wells
13 Wycombe High School, High Wycombe
14 Watford Grammar School for Girls
15 The Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe
16 Chesham Grammar School
17 Yavneh College, Borehamwood
18 Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School, Aylesbury
19 Aylesbury High School
20 Aylesbury Grammar School
Which are the best schools near me?
Top independent secondary schools in the south 2022
1 Wycombe Abbey School, High Wycombe
2 Magdalen College School, Oxford
3 Guildford High School
4 Brighton College
5 Sevenoaks School
6 Eton College, Windsor
7 Haberdashers’ Girls’ School, Elstree
8 The Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School, Elstree
9 St Mary’s School Ascot
10 Royal Grammar School, Guildford
11 Winchester College
12 St Helen and St Katharine, Abingdon
13 Oxford High School GDST
14 Tonbridge School
15 St Albans High School for Girls
16 St Catherine’s, Bramley
17 Reigate Grammar School
18 The Abbey School, Reading
19= Abingdon School
19= Downe House, Thatcham
Which are the best schools near me?
Which are the top south east schools / best private schools in the UK?
Top Schools Southeast 2021
244 high-performing state and independent schools featuring in our rankings, contributes four of our 26 Schools of the Decade.
- 133 of the 500 top-performing state secondary schools are to be found in the southeast
- Yet the appetite for independent education is huge, with 156,000 children educated in fee-paying schools here, 50,000 more than in London.
Brighton College seizes the title of UK Independent Secondary School of the Decade. In recent years it has made itself at home in our top 10, yet 15 years ago it did not even make the top 100.
Another independent school — Guildford High — has greater longevity in the top 10 than Brighton and wins our Southeast Independent Secondary School of the Decade title. Its senior girls have earned a place among the academic elite for the past eight years in succession. Guildford High Junior School topped the Parent Power prep school rankings published last week and is a former Prep School of the Year.
Led by Fiona Boulton since 2002, Guildford High School (GHS) is about much more than just fine results. As part of United Learning — a group of more than 90 schools spanning the independent and state sectors across England — the school found that the coronavirus lockdown provided the opportunity to share its gift for making learning fun and engaging.
Good schools south east 2021
Dartford Grammar School is named International Baccalaureate School of the Decade is Dartford grammar schools
- The Sunday TImes award spanning both state and independent sectors.
- 1/4 state schools offering only the IB qualification in the sixth form.
- Selective intake has a broad social mix.
- 45% of its University entrants are the first in their family.
- Immune to any Covid-19 related grade inflation; average IB point score attained by pupils at Dartford Grammar has increased in the last decade to 36.9 from 31.8.
Which are the best schools near me?
Which are the top south east schools / best private schools in the UK?
Top state secondary schools in the South east
- Reading School
- Dartford Grammar School
- Kendrick School, Reading
- The Judd School, Tonbridge
- Tonbridge Grammar School
- Dr Challoner’s High School, Little Chalfont
- Dr Challoner’s Grammar School, Amersham
- Dame Alice Owen’s School, Potters Bar
- Wycombe High School, High Wycombe
- Hockerill Anglo-European College, Bishop’s Stortford
- Sir William Borlase’s Grammar School, Marlow
- Tunbridge Wells Girls’ Grammar School
- Royal Latin School, Buckingham
- Chesham Grammar School
- The Skinners’ School, Tunbridge Wells
- The Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe
- Aylesbury Grammar School
- Watford Grammar School for Girls
- Beaconsfield High School
- Aylesbury High School
Which are the best schools near me?
Which are the top south east schools / best private schools in the UK?
Top independent secondary schools in the South east
- Brighton College
- Wycombe Abbey School, High Wycombe
- Magdalen College School, Oxford
- Guildford High School
- St Mary’s School Ascot
- Eton College, Windsor
- Haberdashers’ Aske’s School for Girls, Elstree
- Sevenoaks School
- The Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School, Elstree
- Oxford High School GDST
- Winchester College
- St Albans High School for Girls
- Tonbridge School
- Royal Grammar School, Guildford
- Merchant Taylors’ School, Northwood
- St Helen and St Katharine, Abingdon
- Abingdon School
- Reigate Grammar School
- St Catherine’s, Bramley
- Radley College, Abingdon
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