There are 80 independent, fee-paying, secondary schools in London. Prices ain't cheap and entry hurdles can be steep.
“My mother scratched the soles of my shoes / to stop me slipping / when I went away to school.” (Hugo Williams)
The graph below shows the performance of all independent secondary schools in Greater London for the latest available year. You can use the filters to narrow your focus to a particular borough and/or focus on schools in the higher performing tiers.
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Once you have filtered the map down to a particular borough and/or performance tier, hover your cursor over any of the circles (or, if you are using a mobile device, click on any of the circles). This will trigger a small lightbox showing the name of the school, its postcode and its performance statistics.
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The performance statistic displayed for each school shows the average grade achieved in the 'A' level tests that are undertaken by pupils in their last year of secondary school. This data is normally published on an annual basis by the UK Government's Department for Education and the map above shows the results for the latest available year, being the academic year ending June 2019. It is worth noting that the next set of academic results might not be published until 2022 because of the disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. We already know that the Department for Education will not be publishing any performance results for the academic year ending June 2020, in light of what it cites as the "the unprecedented public health emergency". Moreover, given the additional disruptions to the school year that have occurred in the first quarter of 2021, we anticipate that a full return to the publication of detailed performance measures may not take place until 2022.
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When viewing the graph shown above, please also be aware that the schools represented therein are restricted to what the Department for Education defines as "mainstream" independent secondary schools. "Special schools" (e.g. schools dedicated to pupils with learning disabilities) are not included in our dataset because their performance measures are not readily comparative with those of mainstream secondary schools.
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