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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
3Brighton College
Period 202122
55.0Independent · Boarding · 6thBrighton, South East
4Eton College
Period 202122
53.5Independent · Boarding · 6thWindsor, South East
5Oxford International College
Period 202122
52.9Independent · Boarding · 6thUnknown, South EastInadequate
6Tonbridge School
Period 202122
52.9Independent · Boarding · 6thTonbridge, South East
7Royal Grammar School Guildford
Period 202122
52.3Independent · Day · 6thUnknown, South East
8Wellington College
Period 202122
51.7Independent · Boarding · 6thUnknown, South East
9Radley College
Period 202122
51.5Independent · Boarding · 6thUnknown, South East
10Reigate Grammar School
Period 202122
51.5Independent · Day · 6thReigate, South East
11Oxford High School GDST
Period 202122
51.4Independent · Day · 6thOxford, South East
12St Mary's School Ascot
Period 202122
51.4Independent · Boarding · 6thAscot, South East
13St Catherine's School
Period 202122
51.3Independent · Boarding · 6thGuildford, South East
14St Helen and St Katharine
Period 202122
51.2Independent · Day · 6thAbingdon, South East
15Winchester College
Period 202223
51.2Independent · Boarding · 6thWinchester, South East
16Sevenoaks School
Period 202122
51.1Independent · Boarding · 6thSevenoaks, South East
17Abingdon School
Period 202122
51.1Independent · Boarding · 6thAbingdon, South East
18St Swithuns
Period 202122
50.7Independent · Boarding · 6thUnknown, South East
19Hurstpierpoint College
Period 202122
50.7Independent · Boarding · 6thHassocks, South East
20City of London Freemen's School
Period 202122
50.5Independent · Boarding · 6thSurrey, South East
21The Abbey School Reading
Period 202122
50.4Independent · Day · 6thReading, South East
22Churcher's College
Period 202122
50.4Independent · Day · 6thPetersfield, South East
23Downe House
Period 202122
50.1Independent · Boarding · 6thThatcham, South East
24Notre Dame School
Period 202122
49.6Independent · Day · 6thUnknown, South East
25Headington Rye Oxford
Period 202122
49.6Independent · Boarding · 6thOxford, 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.