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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 Value-added (period 202425).

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#SchoolA-Level Value-addedTypeRegionOfsted
1Cardiff Sixth Form College, Cambridge
Period 202425
1.28Independent · Boarding · 6thUnknown, East of England
2The Worthgate School
Period 202425
1.28Independent · Boarding · 6thCanterbury, South East
3Worth School
Period 202425
1.14Independent · Boarding · 6thCrawley, South East
4Uppingham School
Period 202425
1.14Independent · Boarding · 6thUnknown, East Midlands
5Kings Education (Oxford)
Period 202324
1.09Independent · Boarding · 6thOxford, South East
6Queen Anne's School
Period 202425
1.09Independent · Boarding · 6thReading, South East
7Brentwood School
Period 202324
1.04Independent · Boarding · 6thBrentwood, East of England
8Stonar School
Period 202425
1.02Independent · Boarding · 6thWiltshire, South West
9Sibford School
Period 202324
1.02Independent · Boarding · 6thBanbury, South East
10Stonyhurst College
Period 202324
0.99Independent · Boarding · 6thUnknown, North West
11Sedbergh School
Period 202425
0.99Independent · Boarding · 6thSedbergh (La10 5hg), North West
12Mount Kelly
Period 202324
0.98Independent · Boarding · 6thTavistock, South West
13Blundell's School
Period 202324
0.97Independent · Boarding · 6thTiverton, South West
14Felixstowe International College
Period 202425
0.96Independent · Boarding · 6thFelixstowe, East of England
15Royal Russell School
Period 202324
0.87Independent · Boarding · 6thCroydon, London
16Bede's Senior School
Period 202425
0.86Independent · Boarding · 6thHailsham, South East
17Ipswich School
Period 202324
0.85Independent · Boarding · 6thIpswich, East of England
18Framlingham College
Period 202425
0.81Independent · Boarding · 6thWoodbridge, East of England
19Lord Wandsworth College
Period 202425
0.76Independent · Boarding · 6thHook, South East
20Farringtons School
Period 202425
0.74Independent · Boarding · 6thChislehurst, London
21Rossall School
Period 202324
0.74Independent · Boarding · 6thFleetwood, North West
22Ashville College
Period 202425
0.74Independent · Boarding · 6thHarrogate, Yorkshire and the Humber
23St. Andrew's College Cambridge
Period 202324
0.73Independent · Boarding · 6thCambridge, East of England
24Bloxham School
Period 202425
0.72Independent · Boarding · 6thBanbury, South East
25St Lawrence College
Period 202324
0.68Independent · Boarding · 6thRamsgate, South East
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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.