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Top local Sunday Times School Awards 2023

The Sunday Times‘s private school league tables make a fascinating read for anyone looking for the top independent schools in the UK.

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Top State Secondary Schools awards

1	1	Queen Elizabeth’s School, Barnet	Barnet	Selective (100%)	45.3	86.2	95.7	1	90.8	5
2	3	Wilson’s School, Wallington	Wallington	Selective (100%)	27.9	74.4	94.7	3	90.5	6
3	2	The Henrietta Barnett School, Hampstead	London	Selective (100%)	30.8	72.3	92.1	6	94.9	1
4	7	Pate’s Grammar School	Cheltenham	Selective (100%)	33.3	76.6	95.6	2	87.5	10
5	4	The Tiffin Girls’ School	Kingston upon Thames	Selective (100%)	34.9	73.8	91.1	7	94.6	2
6	5	St Olave’s Grammar School	Orpington	Selective (100%)	34.1	73	93	5	89.4	8
7	6	Reading School	Reading	Selective (100%)	28.6	–	88.8	10	90.9	4
8	11	Altrincham Grammar School for Girls	Altrincham	Selective (100%)	27.8	66.9	91	8	82.2	21
9	8	Colchester Royal Grammar School	Colchester	Selective (100%)	29.6	69.5	90.8	9	82.3	20
10	15	King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford	Chelmsford	Selective (100%)	27	65.6	87.1	13=	85.8	12
11	17	Colyton Grammar School	Colyton	Selective (100%)	32.3	65.9	86.8	15	85.4	14
12	20	King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon	Stratford-upon-Avon	Selective (100%)	31.1	65.7	88.2	11	81.4	23
13	14	King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys	Birmingham	Selective (100%)	29.5	63.9	83.9	25	89	9
14	21	Dartford Grammar School	Dartford	Selective (100%)	22.4	68.4	93.4	4	66.9	68=
15	12	Kendrick School	Reading	Selective (100%)	19.9	54.2	80.6	36=	91.3	3
16	9	Colchester County High School for Girls	Colchester	Selective (100%)	28.5	58.3	81.2	33=	90.1	7
17	25	King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls	Birmingham	Selective (100%)	18.5	52.2	84.3	21=	83.2	17
18	28	Chelmsford County High School for Girls	Chelmsford	Selective (100%)	21.8	57.3	83.5	26	83.9	15
19	22	The Judd School	Tonbridge	Selective (100%)	23.8	63.9	87.9	12	75.1	38=
20	29	Lumen Christi College	Londonderry	Selective (100%)	19.3	58	86.6	17	76.6	31
21	18	Tiffin School	Kingston upon Thames	Selective (100%)	32	61.6	85.5	18	75.6	36
22	19	Sutton Grammar School	Sutton	Selective (100%)	17.6	51.7	81.4	31	83.8	16
23	30	Altrincham Grammar School for Boys	Altrincham	Selective (100%)	20.3	58.6	83	28	79.6	25
24=	24	Nonsuch High School for Girls	Cheam	Selective (100%)	21.8	55	79.3	44	85.5	13
24=	10	Tonbridge Grammar School	Tonbridge	Selective (100%)	22.3	59.9	84.5	20	75.1	38=
26	40	Dr Challoner’s High School	Little Chalfont	Selective (100%)	16.2	51.7	82.9	29	78.2	27
27	65	Strathearn School	Belfast	Selective (100%)	13	51.2	83.3	27	74.8	40
28=	42	Our Lady and St Patrick’s College, Knock	Belfast	Selective (100%)	19.1	57.2	86.7	16	67.4	65
28=	32	The Blue Coat School, Liverpool	Liverpool	Selective (100%)	19	61.1	81.6	30	77.5	29
30	16	The Latymer School	London	Selective (100%)	17.8	52.2	78.2	50	83	18
31	13	St Michael’s RC Grammar School, Finchley	London	Selective (100%)	13.6	46.2	79.5	42=	79.7	24
32	44=	Dr Challoner’s Grammar School	Amersham	Selective (100%)	22.1	57.2	84.1	24	70.1	57
33	26=	Dame Alice Owen’s School	Potters Bar	Partially selective (37.5%)	28	61.8	84.3	21=	69	59
34	43	Stroud High School	Stroud	Selective (100%)	18.8	52.2	80	39	76.4	32
35=	48	Lancaster Girls’ Grammar School	Lancaster	Selective (100%)	20.8	54.1	78.9	46	75.4	37
35=	23	St Dominic’s Grammar School for Girls	Belfast	Selective (100%)	14.3	46.9	84.8	19	63.8	80
37	–	Tauheedul Islam Girls’ High School and Sixth Form College	Blackburn	Comprehensive	13.6	39.5	84.2	23	62.9	90
38	34	Stratford Girls’ Grammar School	Stratford-upon-Avon	Selective (100%)	15	40.9	73.8	79	82.5	19
39	97	Wycombe High School	High Wycombe	Selective (100%)	14.6	44.8	78	51	74.1	41=
40	67=	Loreto Grammar School, Altrincham	Altrincham	Selective (100%)	15.7	47.6	81.1	35	66.6	71
41=	54	Hockerill Anglo-European College	Bishop’s Stortford	Partially selective (10%)	21.8	63.4	87.1	13=	53.1	134
41=	31	Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls	Sutton Coldfield	Selective (100%)	13.8	47	76.8	57=	73.8	43
43	36	Westcliff High School for Boys	Westcliff-on-Sea	Selective (100%)	14.6	45.7	75.2	69=	76.3	33
44	33	Bishop Vesey’s Grammar School	Sutton Coldfield	Selective (100%)	17.3	47.2	76.5	60	72.6	45
45	58	Sir William Borlase’s Grammar School	Marlow	Selective (100%)	17.9	49.7	77.6	53=	70.2	56
46	66	Newstead Wood School	Orpington	Selective (100%)	14.8	43.5	69.5	121=	86	11
47	59=	Wallington County Grammar School	Wallington	Selective (100%)	15	45.6	76.8	57=	70.9	50=
48	38	Tunbridge Wells Girls’ Grammar School	Tunbridge Wells	Selective (100%)	17	43.6	76.7	59	70.9	50=
49	117	Ballyclare High School	Ballyclare	Selective (100%)	–	–	74.1	76	75.8	34
50	85	Rainey Endowed School	Magherafelt	Selective (100%)	11.7	49.6	81.2	33=	61.4	99

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Sunday Times School Awards 2023.
You can find pre-tests practice tests 2023 (for the two main publishers ISEB and CEM Select) and further private school entry practice tests 2023.

Regional Secondary Schools of the Decade

London State Secondary School of the Decade – Wilson’s School, Wallington
East Anglia State Secondary School of the Decade – Colchester Royal Grammar School
Southeast State Secondary School of the Decade – Dame Alice Owen’s School, Potters Bar
Southwest State Secondary School of the Decade – Balcarras School, Cheltenham
North State Secondary School of the Decade – Silverdale School, Sheffield
Northeast State Secondary School of the Decade – Sedgefield Community College
Northwest State Secondary School of the Decade – Altrincham Grammar School for Girls
East Midlands State Secondary School of the Decade – Caistor Grammar School
West Midlands State Secondary School of the Decade – King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys, Birmingham
Welsh Secondary School of the Decade – Ysgol Y Preseli, Crymych

Other top performing, award-winning schools

The other top performing schools were King’s College School, Guildford High School, Westminster School and Oxford International College, according to data on 200 schools published by the Independent Schools Council (ISC).
It is the first time results data have been collected for three years because exams were scrapped and replaced with teacher assessments during the pandemic.
Our interactive league table allows you to search these results by specific school and compare private schools of your choice against one another.
King’s College School in London came in a close second, with 94 per cent of entries from its 496 candidates achieving an A or A*.
Third place went to Guildford High School in Surrey which, along with a further four independent schools, saw more than 90 per cent of entries marked at least an A.
In total 22 independent schools saw at least 80 per cent of grades marked at an A or higher – more than double the national average of 36 per cent.
The data from the ISC, which represents 1,400 independent schools across the UK, comes after analysis from Ofqual showing that independent schools saw the biggest falls in top grades in 2022.
On average, independent schools in England saw the share of A or A* grades fall by 12.4 percentage points, compared with an average fall of 8.1 percentage points across state schools.
However, on average independent schools still achieved 58 per cent A or A* grades – approaching double the national average – after falling from a high rate of top grades during the pandemic.
Independents achieved 70.4 per cent of results at A or A* in 2021 under teacher-assessed grades, which was the highest of any type of school by far.

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