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Secondary · Independent (中学私立)

ISC-tier fee-paying secondary schools (HMC / GSA / IAPS members) with senior-school age range (≥16). Default order: continuous prestige score = manual tier (Clarendon Nine / HMC flagships) + DfE A-Level + GCSE + pupil count + boarding + destination signal. All 506 ISC schools ranked on one transparent scale. Click 'A-Level AAB %' for pure academic-merit. Excludes embassy / small religious / SEN micro-schools. Currently sorted by A-Level AAB % (period 202425).

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#SchoolA-Level AAB %TypeRegionOfsted
1The National Mathematics and Science College
Period 202425
90.2%Independent · Boarding · 6thUnknown, West Midlands
2Cardiff Sixth Form College, Cambridge
Period 202425
81.1%Independent · Boarding · 6thUnknown, East of England
3St Paul's School73.8%Independent · Boarding · 6thLondon, London
4Brighton College
Period 202425
70.5%Independent · Boarding · 6thBrighton, South East
5Westminster School
Period 202425
70.1%Independent · Boarding · 6thLondon, London
6Winchester College
Period 202425
68.2%Independent · Boarding · 6thWinchester, South East
7Sevenoaks School
Period 202324
67.5%Independent · Boarding · 6thSevenoaks, South East
8Tonbridge School
Period 202223
64.8%Independent · Boarding · 6thTonbridge, South East
9Eton College
Period 202122
64.8%Independent · Boarding · 6thWindsor, South East
10Oxford International College
Period 202425
64.6%Independent · Boarding · 6thUnknown, South EastInadequate
11Wycombe Abbey
Period 202425
63.9%Independent · Boarding · 6thHigh Wycombe, South East
12Concord College
Period 202425
62.5%Independent · Boarding · 6thShrewsbury, West Midlands
13Dulwich College
Period 202425
61.4%Independent · Boarding · 6thLondon, London
14Charterhouse
Period 202122
61.2%Independent · Boarding · 6thGodalming, South East
15City of London Freemen's School
Period 202425
60.4%Independent · Boarding · 6thSurrey, South East
16Cheltenham Ladies' College
Period 202425
60.0%Independent · Boarding · 6thCheltenham, South West
17Abingdon School
Period 202425
58.9%Independent · Boarding · 6thAbingdon, South East
18Marlborough College
Period 202425
58.5%Independent · Boarding · 6thWiltshire, South West
19The King's School Canterbury
Period 202425
58.5%Independent · Boarding · 6thCanterbury, South East
20St Swithuns
Period 202425
58.3%Independent · Boarding · 6thUnknown, South East
21Sherborne School
Period 202425
52.2%Independent · Boarding · 6thSherborne, South West
22Loughborough High School
Period 202425
51.9%Independent · Boarding · 6thUnknown, East Midlands
23Hereford Cathedral School With A Junior School
Period 202324
49.5%Independent · Boarding · 6thHereford, West Midlands
24Heathfield School
Period 202223
49.5%Independent · Boarding · 6thAscot, South East
25Mill Hill School Foundation
Period 202122
49.5%Independent · Boarding · 6thLondon, London
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Source: DfE / Explore Education Statistics, latest published 16-18 period (202425). Independent schools that don't submit to DfE are not represented.

Note on Independent schools: most are inspected by ISI, not Ofsted, so the Ofsted column is empty for many entries. ISI bulk data is not publicly available — sorting by A-Level metrics gives a more meaningful order for this slice.