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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 APS / entry (period 202122).

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#SchoolA-Level APS / entryTypeRegionOfsted
1Guildford High School
Period 202122
55.4Independent · Day · 6thGuildford, South East
2Wycombe Abbey
Period 202122
55.3Independent · Boarding · 6thHigh Wycombe, South East
3Oxford High School GDST
Period 202122
51.4Independent · Day · 6thOxford, South East
4St Mary's School Ascot
Period 202122
51.4Independent · Boarding · 6thAscot, South East
5St Catherine's School
Period 202122
51.3Independent · Boarding · 6thGuildford, South East
6St Helen and St Katharine
Period 202122
51.2Independent · Day · 6thAbingdon, South East
7St Swithuns
Period 202122
50.7Independent · Boarding · 6thUnknown, South East
8The Abbey School Reading
Period 202122
50.4Independent · Day · 6thReading, South East
9Downe House
Period 202122
50.1Independent · Boarding · 6thThatcham, South East
10Notre Dame School
Period 202122
49.6Independent · Day · 6thUnknown, South East
11Headington Rye Oxford
Period 202122
49.6Independent · Boarding · 6thOxford, South East
12Benenden School
Period 202324
49.2Independent · Boarding · 6thCranbrook, South East
13Burgess Hill Girls
Period 202324
49.1Independent · Boarding · 6thBurgess Hill, South East
14Sir William Perkins's School
Period 202122
48.5Independent · Day · 6thUnknown, South East
15Farnborough Hill
Period 202122
48.5Independent · Day · 6thFarnborough, South East
16Walthamstow Hall
Period 202324
48.1Independent · Day · 6thSevenoaks, South East
17Prior's Field School
Period 202122
48.0Independent · Boarding · 6thGodalming, South East
18Roedean School
Period 202122
48.0Independent · Boarding · 6thBrighton, South East
19Tormead School
Period 202122
46.8Independent · Day · 6thGuildford, South East
20Pipers Corner School
Period 202122
46.8Independent · Day · 6thHigh Wycombe, South East
21St Teresa's School
Period 202122
46.7Independent · Boarding · 6thDorking, South East
22Woldingham School
Period 202122
45.5Independent · Boarding · 6thCaterham, South East
23The Marist School
Period 202324
45.1Independent · Day · 6thAscot, South East
24Brighton Girls GDST
Period 202122
44.7Independent · Day · 6thUnknown, South East
25Kent College Pembury
Period 202122
44.0Independent · Boarding · 6thTunbridge Wells, South East
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Source: DfE / Explore Education Statistics, latest published 16-18 period (202122). 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.