With all the confusion and controversy surrounding school league
tables where can parents go for clear information about a school’s academic
performance?
With constantly changing parameters the official Department
for Education league tables are a source of confusion to parents and
frustration to head teachers. This is why for parents looking for a private
school, the best-schools.co.uk league tables are so valuable.
For independent schools the recent announcement that the
much acclaimed international GCSE
(IGCSE) qualification, chosen by many top schools for its academic rigour, would
no longer be included in the DfE league tables, provoked harsh criticism from
the HMC chairman, Richard Harman who described it as an “absurd
situation”. Eton College, probably the
most famous school in the country has gone from achieving 100% A*-C grades at
GCSE level to 0%!
The DfE claims to have “stripped out qualifications that
were of little value” – the IGCSE, of little value? Really? This has become the
qualification of choice for many highly academic schools, chosen because it
provides a much better foundation for advanced study in the 6th form
and does not include endless controlled assessments which eat into valuable
teaching time.
Best-schools.co.uk
publishes clear and accurate league tables of the top independent schools which
include ALL GCSE and IGCSE qualifications, with schools ranked according the
percentage of A*/A grades achieved by pupils in each cohort. The tables are
clear, transparent and fair and are trusted by parents and advisers all over
the world looking for a private school in the UK.
Another reason that the best-schools.co.uk league tables are more accurate is the fact that we track down the results of the 60+ private schools who don’t publish their exam results in August plus those schools and colleges who do not supply their results to DfE.
Another reason that the best-schools.co.uk league tables are more accurate is the fact that we track down the results of the 60+ private schools who don’t publish their exam results in August plus those schools and colleges who do not supply their results to DfE.
Picture: Top of our League Table by GCSE Grades is North London Collegiate School, also recently presented with a Top IB School Award, where 99.02% of all GCSE entries were awarded A* or A grades.
Of course league tables and exam results can never present a full picture of school performance, and parents looking for a school will be taking many other factors into account. However, families investing huge sums of money in their child’s education have a right to know how a school performs academically.
To view all our independent school league tables and for impartial advice on school choice go to www.best-schools.co.uk
