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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 Composite score (period 202425). Composite = weighted Ofsted + AAB% + Value-added (A-Level).

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#SchoolComposite scoreTypeRegionOfsted
1Winchester College75.7 composite
Ofsted33.3
AAB%22.7
VA19.7
Independent · Boarding · 6thWinchester, South East
2Abingdon School74.4 composite
Ofsted33.3
AAB%19.6
VA21.4
Independent · Boarding · 6thAbingdon, South East
3Hampton School72.7 composite
Ofsted33.3
AAB%20.5
VA18.8
Independent · Day · 6thHampton, London
4The Manchester Grammar School68.3 composite
Ofsted25.0
AAB%23.0
VA20.2
Independent · Day · 6thManchester, North West
5Westminster School66.2 composite
Ofsted25.0
AAB%23.4
VA17.8
Independent · Boarding · 6thLondon, London
6City of London School65.7 composite
Ofsted25.0
AAB%21.9
VA18.8
Independent · Day · 6thLondon, London
7Eton College63.9 composite
Ofsted25.0
AAB%21.3
VA17.7
Independent · Boarding · 6thWindsor, South East
8Dulwich College63.7 composite
Ofsted25.0
AAB%20.5
VA18.2
Independent · Boarding · 6thLondon, London
9Tonbridge School63.7 composite
Ofsted25.0
AAB%20.7
VA18.0
Independent · Boarding · 6thTonbridge, South East
10Merchant Taylors' School63.1 composite
Ofsted25.0
AAB%17.6
VA20.5
Independent · Day · 6thNorthwood, East of England
11Bedford School59.3 composite
Ofsted25.0
AAB%14.9
VA19.3
Independent · Boarding · 6thBedford, East of England
12Warwick School59.2 composite
Ofsted25.0
AAB%13.6
VA20.6
Independent · Boarding · 6thWarwick, West Midlands
13Loughborough Grammar School59.1 composite
Ofsted25.0
AAB%15.9
VA18.2
Independent · Boarding · 6thLoughborough, East Midlands
14St Albans School58.9 composite
Ofsted25.0
AAB%14.6
VA19.2
Independent · Day · 6thSt Albans, East of England
15Harrow School58.4 composite
Ofsted25.0
AAB%14.9
VA18.5
Independent · Boarding · 6thHarrow-on-the-Hill, London
16Radley College58.1 composite
Ofsted25.0
AAB%13.7
VA19.3
Independent · Boarding · 6thUnknown, South East
17Whitgift School57.8 composite
Ofsted25.0
AAB%13.9
VA18.8
Independent · Boarding · 6thUnknown, London
18Wetherby Senior School55.9 composite
Ofsted25.0
AAB%10.9
VA20.0
Independent · Day · 6thLondon, London
19Queen Elizabeth Grammar School55.6 composite
Ofsted25.0
AAB%11.6
VA19.0
Independent · Day · 6thWakefield, Yorkshire and the Humber
20Queen Elizabeth's Hospital55.3 composite
Ofsted25.0
AAB%12.5
VA17.8
Independent · Day · 6thBristol, South West
21Sherborne School54.4 composite
Ofsted25.0
AAB%7.1
VA22.3
Independent · Boarding · 6thSherborne, South West
22Bolton School Boys' Division54.3 composite
Ofsted25.0
AAB%11.3
VA17.9
Independent · Day · 6thBolton, North West
23Reading Blue Coat School51.5 composite
Ofsted25.0
AAB%9.1
VA17.4
Independent · Day · 6thBerkshire, South East
24Reed's School50.7 composite
Ofsted25.0
AAB%6.7
VA19.0
Independent · Boarding · 6thCobham, South East
25Royal Grammar School Guildford50.6 composite
AAB%28.0
VA22.6
Independent · Day · 6thUnknown, South East
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Source: GIAS school register + Ofsted Management Information — open licence, weekly refresh.

Composite caveats: Independent schools mostly don't submit to DfE EES, so they appear with low completeness scores (or not at all in the composite ranking). The composite mixes A-Level (Y13) and GCSE (Y11) signals — schools without a sixth form get a small completeness penalty even though it isn't a quality issue. For Independent senior schools, the destination-edge rankings (Oxford / Cambridge feeders) are usually more meaningful than this score.

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.