The Sunday Times Top Schools List 2025

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What are your thoughts? Any surprises? Any experience of the schools that feature? Will it influence any schooling decisions for your DC?

Is that Dame Alice Owen?

I’d assume DAO too (it’s local to me). It’s an excellent school but I do think there should be more clarity in these lists and partially selective schools should be labelled as such; it makes these rankings nonsensical when the so-called ‘leading comprehensives’ are full of high attaining, essentially cherry-picked pupils.

Similarly nonsensical when the government site is unable to include data from private schools. They may not do SAT, but may do CAT or ISEB and based on admission info figure out if any FSM children attend surely they could extrapolate the data.