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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 Value-added (period 202425).

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#SchoolA-Level Value-addedTypeRegionOfsted
1Queen Anne's School
Period 202425
1.09Independent · Boarding · 6thReading, South East
2Portsmouth High School GDST
Period 202425
0.64Independent · Day · 6thUnknown, South East
3Notre Dame School
Period 202324
0.53Independent · Day · 6thUnknown, South East
4Burgess Hill Girls
Period 202324
0.48Independent · Boarding · 6thBurgess Hill, South East
5St Swithuns
Period 202425
0.47Independent · Boarding · 6thUnknown, South East
6Woldingham School
Period 202425
0.40Independent · Boarding · 6thCaterham, South East
7The Marist School
Period 202324
0.35Independent · Day · 6thAscot, South East
8Farnborough Hill
Period 202324
0.33Independent · Day · 6thFarnborough, South East
9Benenden School
Period 202425
0.32Independent · Boarding · 6thCranbrook, South East
10St Teresa's School
Period 202324
0.32Independent · Boarding · 6thDorking, South East
11Tudor Hall School
Period 202324
0.31Independent · Boarding · 6thBanbury, South East
12St Catherine's School
Period 202324
0.30Independent · Boarding · 6thGuildford, South East
13Oxford High School GDST
Period 202324
0.30Independent · Day · 6thOxford, South East
14Headington Rye Oxford
Period 202324
0.29Independent · Boarding · 6thOxford, South East
15Thornton College
Period 202425
0.29Independent · Boarding · 6thMilton Keynes, South East
16Tormead School
Period 202425
0.28Independent · Day · 6thGuildford, South East
17Pipers Corner School
Period 202425
0.28Independent · Day · 6thHigh Wycombe, South East
18Kent College Pembury
Period 202324
0.28Independent · Boarding · 6thTunbridge Wells, South East
19Sir William Perkins's School
Period 202425
0.28Independent · Day · 6thUnknown, South East
20The Abbey School Reading
Period 202324
0.27Independent · Day · 6thReading, South East
21St Mary's School Ascot
Period 202324
0.26Independent · Boarding · 6thAscot, South East
22St Helen and St Katharine
Period 202425
0.26Independent · Day · 6thAbingdon, South East
23Guildford High School
Period 202324
0.26Independent · Day · 6thGuildford, South East
24Brighton Girls GDST
Period 202425
0.23Independent · Day · 6thUnknown, South East
25Downe House
Period 202425
0.22Independent · Boarding · 6thThatcham, South East
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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.