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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
1Guildford High School70.1 composite
Ofsted25.0
AAB%26.3
VA18.8
Independent · Day · 6thGuildford, South East
2St Helen and St Katharine63.0 composite
Ofsted25.0
AAB%19.2
VA18.8
Independent · Day · 6thAbingdon, South East
3Wycombe Abbey62.8 composite
Ofsted25.0
AAB%21.3
VA16.5
Independent · Boarding · 6thHigh Wycombe, South East
4Oxford High School GDST58.9 composite
Ofsted25.0
AAB%14.8
VA19.2
Independent · Day · 6thOxford, South East
5Benenden School58.1 composite
Ofsted25.0
AAB%13.8
VA19.3
Independent · Boarding · 6thCranbrook, South East
6Queen Anne's School57.4 composite
Ofsted25.0
AAB%6.7
VA25.8
Independent · Boarding · 6thReading, South East
7Farnborough Hill57.0 composite
Ofsted25.0
AAB%12.6
VA19.4
Independent · Day · 6thFarnborough, South East
8Downe House56.7 composite
Ofsted25.0
AAB%13.2
VA18.5
Independent · Boarding · 6thThatcham, South East
9Kent College Pembury56.0 composite
Ofsted33.3
AAB%3.7
VA19.0
Independent · Boarding · 6thTunbridge Wells, South East
10The Abbey School Reading55.9 composite
Ofsted25.0
AAB%12.0
VA18.9
Independent · Day · 6thReading, South East
11Thornton College54.5 composite
Ofsted25.0
AAB%10.4
VA19.1
Independent · Boarding · 6thMilton Keynes, South East
12Tormead School54.5 composite
Ofsted25.0
AAB%10.5
VA19.0
Independent · Day · 6thGuildford, South East
13The Marist School54.3 composite
Ofsted25.0
AAB%9.7
VA19.6
Independent · Day · 6thAscot, South East
14Notre Dame School54.1 composite
Ofsted25.0
AAB%8.0
VA21.1
Independent · Day · 6thUnknown, South East
15Roedean School53.8 composite
Ofsted25.0
AAB%11.5
VA17.2
Independent · Boarding · 6thBrighton, South East
16Woldingham School53.1 composite
Ofsted25.0
AAB%8.1
VA20.0
Independent · Boarding · 6thCaterham, South East
17Walthamstow Hall52.5 composite
Ofsted25.0
AAB%10.6
VA16.9
Independent · Day · 6thSevenoaks, South East
18Portsmouth High School GDST52.0 composite
Ofsted25.0
AAB%5.0
VA22.0
Independent · Day · 6thUnknown, South East
19Tudor Hall School50.7 composite
Ofsted25.0
AAB%6.5
VA19.2
Independent · Boarding · 6thBanbury, South East
20Brighton Girls GDST50.7 composite
Ofsted25.0
AAB%7.1
VA18.6
Independent · Day · 6thUnknown, South East
21St Swithuns46.8 composite
AAB%22.7
VA24.1
Independent · Boarding · 6thUnknown, South East
22Pipers Corner School46.1 composite
Ofsted25.0
AAB%2.1
VA19.0
Independent · Day · 6thHigh Wycombe, South East
23Heathfield School45.3 composite
Ofsted25.0
AAB%4.2
VA16.2
Independent · Boarding · 6thAscot, South East
24Sir William Perkins's School44.9 composite
AAB%22.7
VA22.2
Independent · Day · 6thUnknown, South East
25Prior's Field School44.6 composite
Ofsted25.0
AAB%2.6
VA17.0
Independent · Boarding · 6thGodalming, 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.