The Times School Rankings

@Ivybound I’m not sure if your question was aimed at me? If it was, I can confirm that my teenager has a diagnosed eating disorder - but how much of this is related to her ADHD and autism, plus other disabilities, I don’t know. My biggest piece of advice would be to choose a school where you think your child could be happy and not just based on league tables etc.

my daughter doesn’t know of any eating disorders In her year 11, NLCS. It’s a healthy environment for the right child, girls work hard and want to do well.

it's in a sense amazing that Wilson's, funded to the tune of £7k per pupil, was able to get better a level results than pretty all the private schools including the selective ones, but I also found such spectacular numbers to be, well, a little odd, maybe, I couldn't help but wonder if the numbers have been gamed somehow, e.g. maybe not allowing kids without exceptional GCSE's to sit A levels there, maybe disproportionately pushing kids into doing 3 a levels rather than more, maybe being extra ruthless in terms of kicking out kids with mediocre lower sixth performance?

Take it all with a pinch of salt. It's from the Times, but others do lists and all have totally different schools on it. Plus the criteria and why some schools included and others not is odd.

Ds2's school is on it, top 10. But I already knew it was an excellent state school, results better than most private schools, and good pastoral care. So this list doesn't change anything for me.

@Ivybound my DD1 is in Y11 at a super selective grammar and she will be sprinting out of there after her last GCSE exam and there will be a ceremonial burning of her uniform and accoutrements. Honestly, if I’d known then what I know now, I would never have let my DD start at this school. I will preface by saying that she does have multiple SEN issues.

@Ivybound yes, and more at some than others.

The largest cohort for Westminster (and we are talking half a dozen or so) in the past few years have tended to be from CLSG and SPGS. Success in Oxbridge/USA college application success is a big factor in the switch.

Yes, I know of one grammar school in top 20 has this problem.

NLCS was top in the UK for both GCSE and IB results. The remaining girls that took Alevels was 77% A star / A - not as high as some years, but just a few percent behind the others. Some girls leave for 6th form for Westminster, Camden school for girls and some that want a less academic pace and a Co Ed environment go to UCS.

I’m not a parent of NLCS and I don’t have any experience of the new head, but didn’t the School A level rankings fall due to their grade inflation following TLA during covid. From memory they had the largest grade inflation in the Country and as a result, the last head had to leave?

My DD was also at one of the top 10 Indie schools mentioned and moved for 6th to a selective co-ed school and has never been happier.

League tables aren’t everything as a PP said. My DD was much happier when she was out of the single sex environment and has embraced the style of teaching at the new school which is to learn the subject, not to learn to pass the tests….

One of the comments on the league tables posted by a times reader suggested that the school league tables should be posted next to the number of pupils with Disordered eating, incidences of bullying and the number of pupils asked to be off roll to improve results….there is a point to be made there.

I don't think you can

@Ilikelists , it's a tag on bar at the top of the page.

@WhompingWillows i still can’t find the search function. I saw the article about maths and can see that ranking but I can’t find subject specific on league tables.

I have already provided a share token to the search function.

Are the results not filterable by subject? The blurb seems to say they are.

I’m not actually sure if this is searchable?

@WarningOfGails

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/648cc7d8-6ffe-4670-ab41-b9fb1124aa28?shareToken=ad932bc02e7b4e4937067d66a147e74a

I wouldn't ever want to make a choice based on one year's results. DD didn't get into a school that was at the time riding quite high in the rankings, mostly because at the interview she said she said it wasn't her first preference. By the year she took her GCSEs, that school's results had slipped a lot, and I calculated that if they'd taken her then her results would have pulled them up - always supposing they'd taught her well enough. I was mildly tempted to point that out to them, but refrained 😄

Perhaps because it is a commmercial league table, aimed at boosting the coffers of the Murdoch empire. The full results are published by the Government for free in February.

They don't opt out, they just don't opt in! The DfE will publish the full verified results in February. These results in the Times have been voluntarily shared by schools who want to shout about them.

Not all schools want to play that game. The results are calculated based on the % of top grades relative to the whole cohort, which means that more inclusive schools that pride themselves on catering for a range of ability, will not feature highly.

This is how they are calculated:

It seems slightly unreliable if schools can opt out!

I would love to see the best in the SW though please if anyone has a share token?

A Level physics ranking please, if possible.