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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
1Magdalen College School
Period 202425
72.0%Independent · Day · 6thOxford, South East
2Royal Grammar School Guildford
Period 202425
71.7%Independent · Day · 6thUnknown, South East
3Winchester College
Period 202425
68.2%Independent · Boarding · 6thWinchester, South East
4Tonbridge School
Period 202425
64.8%Independent · Boarding · 6thTonbridge, South East
5Eton College
Period 202425
64.8%Independent · Boarding · 6thWindsor, South East
6Abingdon School
Period 202425
58.9%Independent · Boarding · 6thAbingdon, South East
7Radley College
Period 202122
49.5%Independent · Boarding · 6thUnknown, South East
8Reading Blue Coat School
Period 202425
27.3%Independent · Day · 6thBerkshire, South East
9Reed's School
Period 202425
20.0%Independent · Boarding · 6thCobham, South East
10St James Senior Boys' School
Period 202425
17.1%Independent · Day · 6thAshford, South East
11Salesian College
Period 202425
16.1%Independent · Day · 6thFarnborough, South East
12Halliford School
Period 202425
8.0%Independent · Day · 6thShepperton, South East

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.