Financial Times Top 1000 Schools

[Xenia]

398 of the top 1000 are independent
Of the top 100 schools 80 are private and 19 grammar. Only one is a comp but it is a partially selective comprehensive.

(England only)
My older children's schools are 5th, 24th and 35th, not too bad.
www.ft.com/schoolmap-2011
The % ho get A or A* is proper subjects is a good measure and the fact they give the position in 2009 and 2008 too so you can see if a school has just had a bizarre year.

Bananas, I don't understand what you mean.

Xenia could you be linking how a child relates to you to what school they go to?
The only point I'm making is that school choice is not that important provided you know what you want, and are prepared to look at the options to get there. If there is no better option for you than to send your child to a "selective single sex day private in the SE" then that's for you. It may not be for others, even those in the SE.

Medea1 - all of it, or which bit?

I just the implication was either your child goes to the local school and loves you or else they go to a fee paying school and don't which sounded difficult to justify. I could understand if a distinction were made about sending chidlren away at 6 ot 7 to board as having an emotional impact like that but not a day school and for some of us the independent school is the closest to home.

Some children board because that's the best option for their circumstances, even at 7. For e.g. I was at a boarding school which had many such children, almost all of them had only one or no parent, it didn't muck up their lives so far and they're well into their 50s now.
Children do seem to know or invariably work out at some point if a better choice was possible. Maybe emotional impact depends on the quality of the decision, and not the actual option chosen. Therefore I wouldn't be as bold as to say that boarding at 6 or 7 damages children, or is suitable for all.
Since we choose what we do to give our children a good shot at having fulfilling lives, perhaps there's more to the strength and resilience of a child's relationahip with their parent than the school they're sent to? It's fun to look at tables but they rarely tell you what you can already see.
For e.g. outside of the SE there may be fewer school choices, because the population density doesn't warrant it. So the intake is more "comprehensive".The tables largely tell you what the standard of intake is, and they bob around in position because of the variability of the intake year on year. In the SE where there is much more choice, it looks like boys and girls who can't quite make number 1 have to make do with the lower lying ones.

I should add that my schoolmates had one or no parent because the parent(s) had died. But of course there are many more reasons why a chid may be in a less than perfect situation.

Hi
Could someone please tell me where Sevenoaks appears on list? They do IB, so they are not on main list.

Zara, there is an IB list published by the FT. I think Sevenoaks comes in the top three..

There's the 2009 one here media.ft.com/cms/13b6d152-1554-11de-b9a9-0000779fd2ac.pdf which has what is school 5 in the A level list on the latest table the subject of this thread, at place 1.

Cannot find DD's. I'm sure it's there but probably not in the top 500. We are in a non selective area. Can you do a search?

The Lycee Francais in South Ken is ranked 29th - this is a non-selective school (except in as much as you have to speak - if not be - French to go there). Can we deduce from this that the French are cleverer than the Brits??

We know the sorts of parents who send their children there and the sorts of homes and families they are from and the French system of education.

Not sure what to make of it. The DS goes to a top 5 school, the dd's is respectable, mine is in the top half (and I certainly wasn't clever and didn't go to uni), the DH's isn't there at all - it sank decades ago. But it's the DH who took a first and who has become an expert in his field and is the one with earning power and who gets tapped up by a headhunter every few months. Having said that it's the DS's money that meant we could chose where the dc went and it took the worry out of it; whether it will make them successful who knows.