School League Tables

Every year newspapers and popular news websites produce school league tables of state maintained schools as well as independent schools comparing schools against differing sets of criteria. These A-Level school league tables compare schools to one another and give ‘value-added’ scores which can be misleading. Parents must remember that each school league table is produced using differing criteria and that they all have their own method of deciding which school is the ‘best’.

Every child is different and your child might not benefit from a school that is consistently at the top of the academic league tables year on year.

ISC represents all of its 1260+ member schools equally, so does not rank independent schools based on a set criteria. In the Publications section of our website you can find the latest A-Level and GCSE results. These are in alphabetical order and will give parents an idea of the type of grades that pupils at each school achieve. This will obviously help parents if they wish to discover the academic standing of a school. However, parents must use this to complement their other research activities.

For our blogs on school league tables:
School league tables, websites and independent school guides: How do I decide which school is best for my child?
School league tables