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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 GCSE Eng+Maths 5+ (period 202425).

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1Wimbledon High School GDST
Period 202425
100.0%Independent · Day · 6thUnknown, London
2St Helen and St Katharine
Period 202425
98.0%Independent · Day · 6thAbingdon, South East
3St Helen's School
Period 202425
95.2%Independent · Day · 6thNorthwood, London
4Francis Holland School
Period 202425
95.1%Independent · Day · 6thLondon, London
5Northwood College for Girls GDST
Period 202425
94.3%Independent · Day · 6thNorthwood, London
6Cheltenham Ladies' College
Period 202425
93.7%Independent · Boarding · 6thCheltenham, South West
7Manchester High School for Girls
Period 202425
93.2%Independent · Day · 6thManchester, North West
8The Marist School
Period 202425
92.5%Independent · Day · 6thAscot, South East
9St Augustine's Priory
Period 202425
91.2%Independent · Day · 6thLondon, London
10Nottingham Girls' High School GDST
Period 202425
90.0%Independent · Day · 6thUnknown, East Midlands
11Alderley Edge School for Girls
Period 202425
89.6%Independent · Day · 6thAlderley Edge, North West
12Rawdhatul Ilm Wal Huda
Period 202425
87.5%Independent · Boarding · 6thBlackburn, North WestGood
13Notre Dame School
Period 202425
86.8%Independent · Day · 6thUnknown, South East
14Tayyibah Girls' School
Period 202425
85.7%Independent · Day · 6thLondon, LondonGood
15The Maynard School
Period 202425
85.0%Independent · Day · 6thExeter, South West
16The Queen's School
Period 202425
84.1%Independent · Day · 6thChester, North West
17St Mary's School for Girls
Period 202425
82.4%Independent · Day · 6thColchester, East of England
18Al-Mahad Al-Islami
Period 202425
81.8%Independent · Day · 6thSouth Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the HumberGood
19Abbot's Hill School
Period 202425
81.0%Independent · DayHemel Hempstead, East of England
20Farnborough Hill
Period 202425
80.6%Independent · Day · 6thFarnborough, South East
21Talbot Heath School
Period 202425
78.0%Independent · Boarding · 6thBournemouth, South West
22Manchester Islamic Grammar School for Girls
Period 202425
76.0%Independent · DayManchester, North West
23Royal Masonic School for Girls
Period 202425
75.4%Independent · Boarding · 6thRickmansworth, East of England
24Brighton Girls GDST
Period 202425
74.5%Independent · Day · 6thUnknown, South East
25Shrewsbury High School GDST
Period 202425
73.8%Independent · Day · 6thUnknown, West Midlands
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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.