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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 AAB % (period 202425).

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#SchoolA-Level AAB %TypeRegionOfsted
1Cardiff Sixth Form College, Cambridge
Period 202425
81.1%Independent · Boarding · 6thUnknown, East of England
2The Perse School
Period 202425
73.4%Independent · Day · 6thUnknown, East of England
3Brentwood School
Period 202122
46.8%Independent · Boarding · 6thBrentwood, East of England
4The Leys School
Period 202425
44.9%Independent · Boarding · 6thCambridge, East of England
5The Stephen Perse Foundation
Period 202425
44.4%Independent · Boarding · 6thUnknown, East of England
6Aldenham School
Period 202122
40.5%Independent · Boarding · 6thElstree, East of England
7Abbey College Cambridge
Period 202425
40.2%Independent · Boarding · 6thCambridgeshire, East of England
8Ipswich School
Period 202425
38.2%Independent · Boarding · 6thIpswich, East of England
9Berkhamsted School
Period 202425
35.9%Independent · Boarding · 6thBerkhamsted, East of England
10Norwich School
Period 202425
34.4%Independent · Day · 6thNorwich, East of England
11Chigwell School
Period 202425
34.1%Independent · Boarding · 6thChigwell, East of England
12Bishop's Stortford College
Period 202425
33.3%Independent · Boarding · 6thBishop's Stortford, East of England
13Haileybury College
Period 202425
33.3%Independent · Boarding · 6thHertford, East of England
14King's Ely
Period 202425
32.7%Independent · Boarding · 6thEly, East of England
15Woodbridge School
Period 202425
31.3%Independent · Boarding · 6thWoodbridge, East of England
16New Hall School
Period 202425
28.9%Independent · Boarding · 6thChelmsford, East of England
17Bedford Modern School
Period 202425
26.4%Independent · Day · 6thBedford, East of England
18Thetford Grammar School
Period 202425
26.3%Independent · Boarding · 6thUnknown, East of England
19Royal Hospital School
Period 202425
25.9%Independent · Boarding · 6thIpswich, East of England
20The Peterborough School
Period 202425
25.0%Independent · Day · 6thPeterborough, East of England
21Cambridge Arts and Sciences (CATS and CSVPA)
Period 202425
25.0%Independent · Boarding · 6thCambridge, East of England
22Immanuel College
Period 202425
23.7%Independent · Day · 6thBushey, East of England
23St Edmund's College
Period 202425
23.5%Independent · Boarding · 6thWare, East of England
24Gresham's School
Period 202425
23.1%Independent · Boarding · 6thUnknown, East of England
25Mander Portman Woodward
Period 202425
22.4%Independent · Day · 6thCambridge, East of England
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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.