HE Report v2.indd

Degrees of Success

University Chances by Individual School

July 2011

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Executive Summary 2

Introduction 4

University Chances for Different Types of Schools 6

University Chances by Local Area 10

Progression into Higher Education 14

Progression to Selective Universities 16

Progression to Oxbridge 18

Appendix 1 - Data and Denitions 20

Appendix 2 - School Rankings 22

Degrees of Success

University Chances by Individual School

Contents

Higher Education Tables

• TheindividualguresforschoolsinEngland,

listedinaseparatedataletothisreport,

includetheproportionofsixthformstudents

over three years who go on to Higher

Education in general, and the proportion

accepted at highly selective universities in

particular.

• Theaimofthetablesistoprovidean

alternativewayofmeasuringschools,in

termsofwhathappenstoyoungpeople

aftertheyhaveleft–notjusthowmany

havesurpassedaparticularexamination

benchmark while at school.

• These show a strong link between the

averageresultsofA-levelsandequivalent

examsataschoolorcollegeandthe

chancesofgoingtouniversity;however,

thetablesalsoreveallargedifferencesin

universityprogressionratesforschools

withsimilarexaminationresults,particularly

when considering entry to highly selective

universities.

• Beyond the results they produce, schools

appeartodifferconsiderablyinthelevelsof

aspiration they engender in their pupils and

inthequalityofpreparationforselectionfor

higher education.

• Theguresarebasedondataprovided

bytheDepartmentforEducation,UCAS

andOxfordandCambridgeUniversities

individually.UCAScannotaccept

responsibilityforanyinferencesor

conclusionsderivedfromthedatabythird

parties.

Key National Findings

AcceptancesintoHigherEducation

• 68.3%ofsixthformpupilsfrom2343schools

and colleges in England were accepted into

Higher Education overall over the three years.

TheproportionsgoingontoHEvaryfordifferent

school sectors: 69.0% in non selective state

schools;75.5%inindependentschools;and

86.4%inselectivestateschools.

• In total 757,628 school leavers were accepted

into Higher Education across the UK over the

threeyears,from863,070applicants.

AcceptancestoHighlySelective

Universities

• Independent school pupils are more than twice

as likely as pupils in comprehensive schools

tobeacceptedintooneofthemost30highly

selectiveuniversities:48.2%ofindependent

school pupils in England were accepted by these

universities,comparedwith18.0%ofpupils

innonselectivestateschools,and47.6%in

selective state schools.

• Overall,27.3%ofsixthformpupilsfrom3167

schools and colleges in the UK were accepted

to the 30 most highly selective universities over

three years.

• 100eliteschoolscomposedof87independent

schoolsand13grammarschools–just3%of

schoolswithsixthformsandsixthformcolleges

intheUK–accountedforoveratenth(11.2%)of

admissions to highly selective universities during

the three years.

• Thestudyalsosuggeststhatthedifferences

in the admissions rates to highly selective

universities cannot be attributed solely to the

schools’averageA-levelorequivalentresults.

• 58%ofHEapplicantsfromthe30highest

progressioncomprehensiveschools(with

averagescoresforstudentsexceeding3As

gradesatA-level)wereacceptedintothe30

mosthighlyselectiveuniversities;thiscompares

with87.1%ofapplicantsfromthe30highest

progressionindependentschoolsand74.1%

fromthe30highestprogressiongrammar

schools.

OxbridgeEntrants

• Just under 2000 schools and colleges in the

UKhadtwoorfewerOxbridgeentrantsover

thethreeyears–orlessthanoneayear.They

makeupjustundertwothirdsofallschoolsand

colleges,andaccountedfor5.6%ofOxbridge

admissions over the three years.

• ThetotalnumberofOxbridgeentrantsfromthese

2000 schools and colleges over the three years

-927-islessthanthenumberfrom4schoolsand

onecollegewhoproduced946Oxbridgeentrants

over the period.

• 100eliteschools–makingup3%ofschools

withsixthformsandsixthformcollegesinthe

UK–accountedforjustunderathird(31.9%)of

admissionstoOxbridgeduringthethreeyears.

Theseschoolsarecomposedof84independent

schools and 16 grammar schools.

• Independent school pupils are nearly seven times

as likely as pupils in comprehensive schools to

beacceptedintoOxbridge:5.2%ofindependent

schoolpupilswereacceptedbyOxfordand

Cambridge,comparedwith0.8%ofpupilsinnon

selectivestateschools,and4.2%inselective

state schools.

UniversityChancesforStateSchoolPupils

byLocalArea

• State pupils in Hammersmith and Fulham,

Ealing, Redbridge, and Merton are twice as likely

to be accepted at university as state pupils in

Portsmouth.

Thisreportaccompaniestherst

publicationofstatisticsforhigher

educationdestinationsforindividual

schoolswithsixthformsandcolleges

in England.

• State pupils in Hammersmith and Fulham and

Reading are more than 10 times as likely to be

accepted at a highly selective university than

state pupils in Rochdale, Hackney, Halton,

Portsmouth, Tower Hamlets, or Knowsley.

• State pupils in Reading, Hammersmith and

Fulham, Sutton and Buckinghamshire are more

than50timesaslikelytobeacceptedatOxford

or Cambridge than pupils in Hackney, Rochdale,

Knowsley, or Sandwell.

Recommendations

The Government should develop annual indicators

detailingprogressiontoHEaspartofa‘scorecard’

coveringarangeofprogressionmeasurestracking

pupilsaftertheageof16,includingemployment,

and vocational routes as well as higher education.

Theseshouldbecomeanintegralpartoftheschool

inspection process.

Thereareanumberofimprovementsthatcould

be made to these Higher Education tables that

the Government could consider: measuring the

outcomesforallschools,includingthosewithout

sixthforms;usingindividualisedattainmentdata

ratherthanschoolaverages;usinguniversityentrant

dataratherthanstudentacceptances;extendingthe

tables to all UK schools.

Anynewsystemofadviceandguidanceneedsto

coverhighereducation-whetherconcerningthe

subjectsstudiedduringschool,ortheopportunities

availableafterschool.Schoolswouldalsobe

encouraged to stay in touch with past pupils

and invite them back to school to report on their

experiencesinhighereducationandbeyond.

Finally,informationonratesofprogressionshould

besuppliedtouniversitiestoinformtheiroutreach

activities. Destinations data would be valuable

bothforselectionpurposesandtotargetwidening

participation initiatives.

Onepossibilityisthatuniversitiescouldbeexpected

to do some outreach work with the schools in their

localitywithlowHEprogressionrates-aspartof

theiraccessagreementsagreedwiththeOfcefor

FairAccess.

Four Schools and

One College

2000 Schools with Two or

Fewer Oxbridge Entrants

Oxbridge Entrants

927 946

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Executive Summary Executive Summary

Commentary in the report is by John O’Leary,

data analysis by Lesley Kendall.

Attainment,applicationsandHE

progression

AseriesofstudiesbytheSuttonTrustand

othershaveconrmedthatattainmentin

A-levelsorequivalentexaminationsisbyfarthe

biggestfactordeterminingthechancesofbeing

acceptedintouniversities.Manyofthestark

ndingsonHEprogressioninthisreportreect

thedifferencesinattainmentlevelsbetween

schools.ButtheHEtablesalsorevealdifferent

HEprogressionratesforindividualschoolswith

similarlevelsofattainment.

Areportpublishedin2009bytheTrustand

theDepartmentforBusinessInnovation,and

Skillsfoundthatpupilsfromindependent

schoolsinthetopfthofschoolsaccording

toaverageAlevelattainment,onaverage

made twice as many applications to 13 highly

selectiveuniversitiesthantheirpeersfrom

comprehensive schools with similar overall

levelsofattainment.

Asaconsequence,astudentwiththeequivalent

ofABBatAlevel(includingatleastone‘core

academic’Alevel)whoattendedanindependent

schoolhada79%chanceofenteringoneofthe

500 most selective degree courses, compared

with70%forasimilarstudentattendingastate

maintained school.

Schoolleaguetablesprovidevaluableinformation

onexaminationperformance,butwhathappens

then?Particularlyat18,examinationsareameans

toanend,withnearly70percentofthosestaying

ontotheendofsixthformprogressingtohigher

education. It is crucial that schools and colleges give

high-qualityguidanceoncareerpathsandofferthe

bestpossiblepreparationforstudentswhochoose

the university route.

Universitiesdisclosethetypesofschoolfromwhich

theyattracttheirstudents,butthisinformation

doesnotrevealtheoftenconsiderabledifferences

between schools in similar circumstances and even

withsimilarresults.Thisreportisanattempttollin

the gaps, using the results and student destinations

of3,167schoolsthroughouttheUKtoidentifytrends

bothbetweendifferenttypesofschoolandwithin

institutionsofsimilarlevelsofachievement.The

objectiveistodeterminewhethertherearelessons

thatcanbelearnedfromthemostsuccessful

schools and colleges.

The data used in this analysis covers three years,

2007-09,inordertoreducethelikelihoodof

distortionfromunusuallygoodorbadoutcomesin

a single year. Comparisons are made with other

schoolsandcollegeswithsimilarscoresonthetariff

usedbytheUniversitiesandCollegesAdmissions

Service. No conclusions are drawn about those

scores;merelyaboutthelevelofprogressionto

highereducation.Schoolswithfewerthantenhigher

educationapplicantsperyearhavebeenexcluded

fordataprotectionreasons.

Thisinformationmayappearintheannualreports

published by schools and colleges, although

thereisnolegalrequirementforittobegivenin

full.Consequently,destinationsdatawilloftenbe

couchedinthemostadvantageousformforthe

institution.Anindependentschoolmayquotethe

numberofleaversgoingtoOxfordandCambridge,

while a comprehensive may give the numbers

goingontohighereducationofanysort.Others

again will name the universities that are taking their

candidates, but not the numbers.

Schoolscannotbeblamedforportrayingtheirresults

inthebestpossiblelight,butdifferencesinpractice

makeithardforparentstocompareperformance.

Theguresinthisreportsuggestthatthereare

wide variations between apparently similar schools

andcollegesbothintermsofthenumbersgoing

ontoHEandthetypesofuniversitytheyattend.

Beyond the results they produce, schools appear

todifferconsiderablyinthelevelsofaspiration

theyengenderintheirpupilsandinthequalityof

preparationforselectionforhighereducation.

Thisreportlooksattheproportionofstudentsgoing

toHEofanysortandtheproportiongoingtothe

30 most selective universities, known as the Sutton

Trust30.Thereisafurtheranalysisoftheproportion

ofstudentsgoingtoOxfordandCambridge

universities,butguresarenotsuppliedforevery

school and college because in many cases the

numbersaretoosmalltobestatisticallysignicant.

Nearly 2,000 schools – more than half of our

sample – sent no more than two students to

Oxbridge over the three years of the study.

However,thetwocategoriesof‘selective’

universities and all higher education produce their

owncontrasts.Atotalof532schoolshadfewerthan

ten admissions to Sutton Trust 30 universities over

thethreeyearsofthestudy,whileatthetenmost

successfulschoolsbythismeasure,morethana

thirdofallstudentswentontoselectiveuniversities.

Bycalculatingthemeanscoresofsuccessful

applicantsineachcategory,itispossibletoproject

thelikelynumbersofentrantsfromeachschool.

Naturally,alargenumberofschoolsoutperformthe

projectionsbyasignicantmargin,butrelativelyfew

dosoinbothcategories.Theguressuggestthat

manyschoolsfocusonthelessselectiveinstitutions

inordertomaximiseprogressiontohigher

education, while others pay particular attention to

anarrowerrangeofcandidatescapableofentryto

more selective universities.

Thisstudyconrmsthatschoolswithsimilarexam

resultscanhaveverydifferentprogressionrates.At

twogrammarschoolswithalmostidenticalA-level

results,forexample,onerecordedanaverageof65

percentofstudentsgoingtoselectiveuniversities,

whiletheothermanagedonly28percent.Attwo

low-scoringcomprehensives,againwithnear-

identicalUcastariffscores,almost70percentof

18-year-oldsappliedtohighereducationatone,only

33 per cent in the other.

Similardiscrepanciescanbefoundamong

independentschoolsandothersub-setsofstate

education.Therearewidevariations,forexample,

between local authorities, largely mirroring those in

tablesofexaminationresults.Onsomemeasures,

starkdifferencesarevisiblebetweenwholeregions.

All but one of the dozen authorities sending

more than 2 per cent of state school A-level

candidates to Oxford or Cambridge is in the

south-east of England. Trafford is the exception.

Thegulfbetweendifferenttypesofschoolintermsof

progression to higher education is predictably large.

Thetop100schoolsforadmissionstotheSutton

Trust 30 universities comprise 87 independent

schools and 13 grammar schools. Between them,

theyaccountforonly3percentoftheschoolswith

sixth-formsandsixth-formcolleges,but11percent

ofentriestoOxfordandCambridge.

InEnglandoverthethreeyearsofthestudy,

almost88percentofthosewhoappliedtohigher

educationfromschoolsandcollegesfoundaplace

somewhere,buttheproportionrangedfrom93

per cent in grammar schools and 91 per cent in

independentschoolstojustover80percentin

furthereducationcolleges.Inthemostselective

universities,notsurprisingly,thedifferenceswere

muchgreater.Theywerethedestinationsofalmost

58percentofapplicantsinindependentschoolsand

50 per cent in grammar schools, but only 22 per cent

in comprehensive schools.

Yetitisthedifferencesbetweenschoolswith

similarresults,regardlessofsector,thatarethe

most revealing. Some schools, notably but not

exclusivelyintheindependentsector,faroutperform

theprojectionsoftheirstudents’progressionbothto

higher education in general and to the Sutton Trust

30universities.Theirmethodsofguidingstudents’

choicesandpreparingthemforuniversitywarrants

furtherinvestigation.

Some schools are doing much better than others

atenablingtheirstudentstofulltheirpotentialfor

degree-levelstudy.WhileHEisnotthemostsuitable

destinationforallpupilswhostayonineducationto

theageof18,itconfersmeasurableadvantagesin

thelabourmarketaswellasbenetingtheindividual

intermsofpersonaldevelopment.

Thereisahighrateofprogressiontosomeformof

highereducationamongsixthformstudents,butthis

isnotthecaseatallschools.Ratesofprogressionto

the most selective universities are particularly

variable,evenallowingfordifferencesinUCAStariff

scores.

Sincetherewardsforsocialmobilityandcareer

advancement tend to be greatest at the more

selectiveuniversities,thisisamajorconcern.

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Introduction Introduction

Total Fifth of schools with

highest exam results

Fifth of schools with

lowest exam results

All schools Numberofschools 2343 469 469

% accepted 68.3% 81.9% 52.2%

Academies Numberofschools 29 17

% accepted 64.5% 63.6%

Comprehensive schools Numberofschools 1307 86 255

% accepted 69.0% 78.4% 59.4%

General Further

Education Colleges

Numberofschools 185 122

% accepted 42.6% 39.4%

Independent schools Numberofschools 436 236 3

% accepted 75.5% 80.2% 53.2%

Modern schools Numberofschools 71 50

% accepted 53.9% 48.8%

Selective schools Numberofschools 164 126

% accepted 86.4% 87.9%

Sixth Form Colleges Numberofschools 98 21 4

% accepted 68.1% 79.3% 66.4%

Tertiary Colleges Numberofschools 37 9

% accepted 51.8% 45.8%

Table1-ProportionofPupilsattheEndofSixthForminDifferentTypesofSchoolsin

EnglandAcceptedintoHigherEducation

Total Fifth of schools with

highest exam results

Fifth of schools with

lowest exam results

All schools Numberofschools 2343 469 469

% accepted 23.8% 51.9% 4.9%

Academies Numberofschools 29 17

% accepted 9.5% 4.7%

Comprehensive schools Numberofschools 1307 86 255

% accepted 18.0% 34.0% 6.8%

General Further

Education Colleges

Numberofschools 185 122

% accepted 2.7% 2.0%

Independent schools Numberofschools 436 236 3

% accepted 48.2% 59.9% 12.7%

Modern schools Numberofschools 71 50

% accepted 6.2% 3.3%

Selective schools Numberofschools 164 126

% accepted 47.6% 52.1%

Sixth Form Colleges Numberofschools 98 21 4

% accepted 18.5% 32.9% 3.9%

Tertiary Colleges Numberofschools 37 9

% accepted 8.0% 2.5%

Table2-ProportionofpupilsattheendofsixthformindifferenttypesofschoolsinEngland

acceptedintooneofthe30HighlySelectiveUniversities.

The two columns on the right show gures for the lowest and highest fth of schools when ranked

by the average point scores for A-levels or equivalent qualications published by the DfE.

The two columns on the right show gures for the lowest and highest fth of schools when ranked

by the average point scores for A-levels or equivalent qualications published by the DfE.

6DegreesofSuccess DegreesofSuccess7

University Chances for Different Types of Schools University Chances for Different Types of Schools

Alltheevidenceinthisstudysuggeststhatwhile

thelevelofachievementataschoolnaturallyhas

thegreatestinuenceonprogressiontohigher

education,otherfactorsareinvolved.

While there is no suggestion that universities

–selectiveorotherwise–areswayedbythe

typeofschoolacandidatehasattended,there

aresignicantdifferencesevenatthislevelof

aggregation.Thismaypointtoareasofbestpractice

inschools–intermsoftheadviceandguidance

providedtostudentsonsubjectchoiceatA-levelor

Higher Education more generally.

Notsurprisingly,thelikelihoodofanapplication

tohighereducationrisesinlinewiththeresultsof

theschoolapupilattends.Butevenatthelowest-

scoring20percentofschools,two-thirdsofpupils

apply to a university or higher education college and

morethanhalfareaccepted.Thisrisestomorethan

nineoutoftenatthehighest-achievingschools,

whereovereightoutoftenndahighereducation

place(seetable1).

When it comes to the 30 most selective universities,

however,thecontrastisstriking:theyaccountfor

almostaquarterofalldegreeplaces,butthere

aremarkedlydifferentsuccessratesatdifferent

typesofschool.Onlyonesixth-formerin20atthe

lowest-scoringschoolsgoesontooneoftheST30

universities,whileatthehighest-scoring,morethan

halfdo(seetable2).Evenwhenthecomparison

is limited to those who actually make university

applications, the gap remains as wide: 7 per cent

goingtoselectiveuniversitiesfromthelowest-

scoringschools,55percentfromthehighest.

Thesedivisionstranscendcategoriesofschool,

exceptthatfewofthelowest-scoringschoolsare

grammar or independent schools. However, the

abilityrangeintheindependentsectorismorewide-

rangingthanmanyrecognise:almost5percentof

the438schoolsinthissurveyareinthebottomtwo

quintilesfortheirresultsat18,whereasonlyoneof

the 165 selective state schools is in this position.

Thismayexplainwhygrammarschoolsaremore

successfulthanindependentsintermsofentryto

higher education as a whole.

Rolesarereversed,however,forthemostselective

universities.Particularlyatthehighest-achieving

schools,thegapisnoticeable:60percentof

those at such independent schools go on to ST30

universities, compared with 52 per cent at grammar

schools and 35 per cent at comprehensives.

Comprehensives also have a marginally higher

overall application rate than that in the independent

sector,exceptinthetopquintile–althoughthese

comprisethemajorityofindependentschools.

Again,theindependentsectorisfaraheadinterms

ofselectiveuniversitiesatalllevelsofachievement.

Eveninthesecondquintile,24percentofapplicants

are going to the ST30 universities, compared to 17

per cent at comprehensives.

Indeed,eventhehigher-achievingsecondary

moderns actually have a higher application rate to

all higher education institutions than independent

schools with similar results. Inevitably, the limited

abilityrangeatsecondarymodernspreventsmostof

themfrommakingasignicantimpactonselective

universities, although some have creditable success

rates.

Only 17 academies appear in the study because

theremainderdonothaveresultsforallthreeyears

underexamination.Theyhavehigherlevelsof

application and acceptance to higher education as

a whole than comprehensives in general, but their

small numbers make comparisons unreliable. The

academies’ lead does not apply to selective schools,

wheretheyareslightlylesssuccessfulthanall

comprehensives.

Sixth-formcentres,too,areprobablytoothinon

the ground to reach reliable conclusions. The 38 in

thisstudycovereveryquintileofexamperformance

andhavealmostidenticaloverallguresto

comprehensive schools.

Total Fifth of schools with

highest exam results

Fifth of schools with

lowest exam results

All schools Numberofschools 2343 469 469

% accepted 1.8% 5.8% 0.1%

Academies Numberofschools 29 17

% accepted 0.5% 0.2%

Comprehensive schools Numberofschools 1307 86 255

% accepted 0.8% 2.0% 0.2%

General Further Numberofschools 185 122

Education Colleges % accepted 0.1% 0.1%

Independent schools Numberofschools 436 236 3

% accepted 5.2% 7.9% 0.5%

Modern schools Numberofschools 71 50

% accepted 0.0% 0.0%

Selective schools Numberofschools 164 126

% accepted 4.2% 5.0%

Sixth Form Colleges Numberofschools 98 21 4

% accepted 0.8% 1.6% 0.0%

Tertiary Colleges Numberofschools 37 9

% accepted 0.3% 0.0%

Table3-Average%AcceptedintoOxbridge

School type Non-selective

state

Independent Selective

state

Number 30 30 30

Average % of pupils accepted into HE 90.0% 94.3% 95.1%

Tariff mean score - ie average exam results per

student -- for those accepted at HE

414.4 476.8 471.2

Average % of pupils accepted into highly selective

universities

58.0% 87.1% 74.1%

Tariff mean score - ie average exam results per

student -- for those accepted into highly selective

universities

452.4 483.5 496.6

Table4-UniversityProgressionRatesforforTop30HighestAchievingSchools

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University Chances for Different Types of Schools University Chances for Different Types of Schools

Generalfurthereducationandsixth-formcolleges

aremorenumerous,althoughFEcollegesoffera

broaderrangeofcoursesandserveawiderrange

ofagesandneeds.Nevertheless,studentstakingA

levelorequivalentcourseshavethesameambitions

asthoseinotherpartsofthesystemandrequirethe

sameinformation,adviceandguidance.

The FE colleges in this survey are clustered

overwhelminglyinthelowesttwoquintiles,only

sixofthe173collegesappearinginthenexttwo

quintilesandnoneinthehighest-achieving.They

havebyfarthelowestprogressionratetohigher

educationandespeciallytoselectiveuniversities–

noticeablylowerthansecondarymodernschools,for

example–withlittlemorethan40percentoftheir

students going on to university and only 3 per cent

makingittooneofthe30mostselectiveinstitutions.

Itmaybefairertojudgethemintermsofthosewho

actuallyapplytouniversitysincesomanyoftheir

studentsenrolforlower-levelvocationalcourses.

Progression rates to all higher education are then

closer to those in comprehensive schools, at almost

80percent,butthegureforselectiveuniversities

remains very low, at only 5 per cent.

Sixth-formcolleges,bycontrast,haveverysimilar

progression rates to comprehensives, although their

examresultsareslightlybetteronaverage.Roughly

20percentofcomprehensivesareinthebottom

quintileforexamresults,comparedwithlessthan5

percentofsixth-formcolleges,andlessthan8per

centofcomprehensivesappearinthetopquintile,

comparedwith20percentofsixth-formcolleges.

The colleges do have marginally higher progression

rates than comprehensives among those who apply

to universities, but their students are no more likely

thancomprehensiveschoolsixth-formerstomake

anapplicationintherstplace.

Independent school pupils are nearly seven times

as likely as pupils in comprehensive schools to be

acceptedintoOxbridge:5.2%ofindependentschool

pupilswereacceptedbyOxfordandCambridge,

comparedwith0.8%ofpupilsinnonselectivestate

schools,and4.2%inselectivestateschools(see

table3).

Thesuccessoftheindependentsectorintermsof

progressiontohighereducation–andtothemost

selectiveuniversities–iswell-known.Atleastpart

ofthatsuccessappearstostemfromtheirsubject

choices–boththecoursestakenandthenumberof

Alevelstheytake,whichsuggestanemphasison

qualityoverquantity.

When schools’ and colleges’ results are analysed

bypointsperexaminationentry,ratherthanthetotal

points achieved by each candidate, there are only

36 comprehensive schools and 92 grammar schools

inthetopquintile.Butwhenthemeasureispoints

per student, 83 comprehensives and 126 grammars

appearinthehighest-achievinggroup.Incontrast,

thereare331independentschoolsinthetopquintile

using points per entry and 238 using points per

subject.

Grammarschoolsinthetopquintileshowavery

similarpatternofresultstothatinindependent

schoolsinthesamequintile.Thetrendsuggeststhat

themostsuccessfulschools,withhighlyablepupils,

targettheirexaminationentriesmoreeffectivelythan

others.

Yet, considering the top 30 progression schools

fromeachoftheindependent,comprehensiveand

grammarsectorssuggeststhatsubjectchoiceis

notthesoledriverofdifferentuniversityprospects.

Justunder6in10pupils-58%-fromthe30highest

progressioncomprehensiveschools(withaverage

scoresforstudentsexceedingtheequivalentof3As

gradesatA-level)wereacceptedintothe30most

highlyselectiveuniversities(seetable4).However

at the 30 highest progression independent schools,

theequivalentgureiscloserto9in10(87.1%)

ofpupilsacceptedattheseuniversities;andatthe

30highestachievinggrammarschoolsitis74.1%.

Astable4shows,theaverageachievementlevels

pupilsfornon-selectiveschoolsisonlylowerbya

marginalamount–andunlikelytoexplainfullywhy

the university chances vary so considerably.

Acceptances into the 30 Most

Highly Selective Universities

6 in 10 from

the 30 highest

progression

Comprehensive

Schools

9 in 10 from

the 30 highest

progression

Independent

Schools

Themostsuccessfuleducationauthoritiesinterms

ofprogressiontohighereducationarefamiliar

namesfromtheLEArankingsthatappearannually

with school league tables.

InHammersmithandFulham,forexample,668of

the771stateschoolsixth-formers(94.5percent)

applied to higher education institutions over the

threeyearsofthestudy,andover86percentwent

touniversity.InReading,morethanhalfofthose

stayingonbeyondGCSEprogressedtooneofthe

30mostselectiveuniversitiesandanextraordinary9

percentwenttoOxfordorCambridge.

Thereisaneedtounderstandthecontextofa

localareaininterpretingtheseresults:successful

grammarschoolswilloftenforexampledrawpupils

fromfaroutsideaLocalAuthorityarea.

However, not a single student in Knowsley, near

Liverpool,wenttoOxfordorCambridgeinthethree

yearsofthisstudy.InRochdale,onlyoneoutof

morethan2,000potentialcandidatesdidso(see

gure3).

Knowsley

Tower Hamlets

Portsmouth

Halton

Hackney

Rochdale

Barking & Dagenham

Thurrock

Newham

Islington

Sutton

Trafford

Buckinghamshire

Reading

Hammersmith & Fulham

Poole

Barnet

Merton

Wokingham

Kensington & Chelsea

10 Lowest % Areas Accepted into Selective Universities

10 Highest % Areas Accepted into Selective Universities

Key

Knowsley

Sandwell

Rochdale

Hackney

Halton

Thurrock

Newham

Hartlepool

Barnsley

Tower Hamlets

Poole

Buckinghamshire

Sutton

Hammersmith & Fulham

Reading

Barnet

Kingston Upon Thames

Enfield

Cambridgeshire

Trafford

10 Lowest % Areas Accepted into Oxbridge

10 Highest % Areas Accepted into Oxbridge

Key

See Table 12 in the appendix for full data

See Table 13 in the appendix for full data

See Table 14 in the appendix for full data

OxfordandCambridge(likemanyuniversitiesinthe

southofEngland)ndithardtoattractapplicants

fromthenorth.Studentsincreasinglystaywithin

reachofhome,eveniftheyaregoingawaytostudy.

But in both Rochdale and Knowsley, the proportion

ofsixthformersorteenagecollegestudentsgoingon

toanyformofhighereducation(seegure1)was

belowhalfandbarelyonestudentin20wenttoan

ST30university(seegure2).

Norareallsouthernauthoritiesimmunefromthe

tendencytoshyawayfromtheverytopuniversities.

Merton,insouth-westLondon,whichhas

Wimbledonasitsmaincentreofpopulation,sent

onlyfourstudentstoOxbridgefromitsstateschools

and colleges, even though the average points score

initsschoolswasexactlyontheaverageforthe

wholeofEnglandandalmostthreeintenwentto

oneofthe30mostselectiveuniversities.

10DegreesofSuccess DegreesofSuccess11

University Chances by Local Area University Chances by Local Area

10 Lowest % Areas Accepted into Higher Education

10 Highest % Areas Accepted into Higher Education

Key

Portsmouth

Stockport

Southampton

Knowsley

Thurrock

Rochdale

Halton

City of Bristol

East Sussex

Torbay

Barnet

Merton

Redbridge

Ealing

Hammersmith & Fulham

Reading

Brent

Wandsworth

Trafford

Hounslow

Figure1-StateSchoolPupilsAcceptedintoHigherEducationbyArea:localareaswith

thehighestandlowestproportionsofpupilsatendofsixthformaccepted

Figure2-StateSchoolPupilsAcceptedintoHighlySelectiveUniversitiesbyArea:local

areaswiththehighestandlowestproportionsofpupilsatendofsixthformaccepted

Figure3-StateSchoolPupilsAcceptedintoOxbridgebyArea:localareaswiththehighest

andlowestproportionsofpupilsatendofsixthformaccepted

Key

Under 10%

10-20%

20% and Over

Portsmouth, which has more deprivation and a much

lower average points score in the two colleges that

servethepost-GCSEpopulation,alsohadonlyfour

Oxbridgeentrantsinthethreeyears.Aminorityof

those staying on in education beyond GCSE applied

forhighereducationandonly4.5percentwentto

the most selective universities.

Theguresinthisstudydonotpermitrm

conclusionsaboutthereasonsforsuchapparent

underperformance.But,wherethemostselective

universitiesareconcerned,subjectchoiceandmore

generalinformation,adviceandguidancemustbe

questioned.Ofthecity’s279state-educatedA-level

candidatesin2010,only14tookEnglishliterature

and 11 maths. In the same year, 25 took media

studies and 17 sports studies.

AtHighburyCollege,thegeneralfurthereducation

collegethattakestwo-thirdsofthosestayingon

in state education in Portsmouth beyond GCSE,

lessthanoneinve16-18year-oldstakeAlevel

ortheequivalent.Butthosewhodotakeandlast

thecoursehaveanaveragepointsscoreforeach

subjectthatiswellaheadofthenationalaverage,

excludingindependentschools,andconsiderably

higher than the average at Portsmouth College,

theneighbouringsixth-formcollege.YetHighbury’s

students achieve correspondingly lower scores than

PortsmouthCollege’sintotal,raisingquestions

abouthowmanysubjectsaretakenateachcollege.

The pattern was similar in 2009.

A-levelstudentsinfurthereducationcolleges

generallyappeartotakefewersubjectsthaninother

partsoftheeducationsystem.Thecontrastisless

apparent in national terms, but FE college students

stilldonoticeablybetterintermsofpointsperentry

thanintheiroverallUCASpointstheyachieve.Since

thelatteristhecurrencyofuniversityentry,this

cannot be to their advantage.

Thereareclearregionaldifferencesinthepatterns

ofapplicationtohighereducationandinacceptance

rates.Thetop14authoritiesfortheproportionof

students applying to universities are all in London.

Theyincludetwo–WalthamForestandIslington–

where the numbers going to selective universities

are only 7 per cent and 5.8 per cent respectively.

The‘capitaleffect’isnotsopronouncedforentry

to the 30 most selective universities, although

three London authorities appear in the top ten. The

common denominator in this group appears to be

prosperity, with the leading dozen authorities mainly

coveringafuentareasinthesouthofEngland.The

bottom 20 authorities, which include eight in London,

allsendlessthan10percentoftheirstudentsto

ST30 universities.

Inevitably,thesameistrueforOxbridgeentry.Only

a dozen authorities send more than one student in

50totheancientuniversities.ApartfromTrafford,

inGreaterManchester,allofthemareinthesouth

ofEngland.InLondonthereareparticularlystark

inequalitiesinthechancesofgettingintoahighly

selectiveuniversitybetweendifferentboroughs(see

gure4).

12DegreesofSuccess DegreesofSuccess13

University Chances by Local Area University Chances by Local Area

Figure4-StateSchoolPupilsAcceptedintoOxbridgebyLondonBorough:localareas

withthehighestandlowestproportionsofpupilsatendofsixthformaccepted

Thetop14authoritiesfortheproportion

ofstudentsapplyingtouniversitiesareall

in London.

School Name School

Type

Exam points per

student

% of pupils accepted

at university

The Kingsley School IND 792 97

WelbeckDefenceSixthFormCollege SFC 934 96

TheSixthFormCentre,HarborneAtLordswood

Girls' School, Birmingham

COMP 720 96

LingeldNotreDame IND 823 96

Hughes VI Form College IND 686 95

King's High School Warwick IND 897 95

HeatheldSchool,Pinner IND 867 94

Stockport Grammar School IND 874 94

The Marist Senior School IND 861 94

Reading Blue Coat School IND 879 94

Key to Table 5

Theseare10of139schoolsandcollegesin

Englandthathaveasignicantlyhigheracceptance

rate to higher education than other schools with

similaraverageexamresultsattheendofsixthform

study.

School Type

School and college type is given as it was in summer

2009.Thefollowingabbreviationsareusedinthe

table:

COMP Comprehensive school

IND  Independentschool(includesindependent

   sixthformcolleges)

SEL Selective(grammar)school

SFC Sixthformcollege

% of Pupils Accepted at University

Students accepted into HE are those UK domiciled

studentsaged18or19rstapplyingin2007,2008

or2009.Sixthformpupilsarethosecompleting

A-levelorequivalentqualications

Exam Points per Student

Listedforeachschoolistheaveragepointscores

forA-levelsorequivalentqualicationsforpupils

publishedannuallybytheDepartmentforEducation

inschoolperformancetables.

14DegreesofSuccess DegreesofSuccess15

Progression into Higher Education

Much attention has been paid to widening

participation in higher education as a whole. The

guresinthisstudysuggestthattheproblem

doesnotlieprimarilyinsixth-forms,butearlierin

secondaryeducation.Inthe2,343Englishschools

andcollegesinthissurvey,77percentofthosewho

stayed on to Year 13 applied to higher education and

68 per cent were accepted.

Onlyinthelowest-performingfurthereducation

colleges does the proportion applying to higher

educationdropfractionallybelowhalf,withlessthan

43percentsecuringplaces.Butmanystudentsin

such colleges are taking apprenticeships or another

formofvocationaltrainingatsub-degreelevel.

In comprehensive schools as a whole, 78 per cent

applied and 69 per cent were accepted. Even in the

fthofcomprehensiveswiththelowestresults,more

than 70 per cent applied to higher education and

almost60percentweresuccessful.

Thereremainconsiderabledifferencesbetween

typesofinstitution,aswellasbetweenindividual

schools, however. In grammar schools, almost 93

percentofsixth-formersapplyand86percent

go to university or higher education college. The

progression rates in independent schools are also

high, with 82 per cent applying and 75 per cent

securing a place somewhere in the higher education

system.

Thesedifferencesareexplainedtosomeextentby

the ability range. It should be remembered, however,

thatmanycomprehensiveschoolsixth-formsand

sixth-formcollegesareselectivetosomeextent

–albeitwithlowerthresholdsforentrythanmost

independent or grammar schools.

Atotalof139schoolsweremarkedoutinthe

studyforhighperformanceinprogressiontohigher

educationasawhole–giventheiraverage

attainment.Morethan80ofthemwere

comprehensives,coveringabroadrangeofUCAS

scores.

Differencesbetweenschoolsarelessmarkedon

thismeasurethanamongacceptancesforthe

30 most selective universities. But there are still

numerousexamplesofschoolswithnear-identical

resultsdivergingintermsofprogressiontohigher

education.Twocomprehensivesinthesouthof

EnglandwithmeanUCASpointsclosetothe

national average were 10 percentage points apart

in progression to higher education, even among

applicants.

Fewschoolsareperformingfaraboveaveragefor

progression both to higher education as a whole

and to the selective universities, suggesting that

manyconcentrateononeortheother.Manyof

thoseperformingclosetonationalaveragespride

themselves on helping their students select the most

suitableuniversitiesfortheirabilitiesandneeds.

WilliamFarrSchool,inWelton,Lincolnshire,for

example,isclosetothenationalaverageinboth

categories,but78percentofitsapplicantsare

acceptedattheirrst-choiceuniversity.Athorough

programmeofinformation,adviceandguidance

makes this the top priority.

Table5-10HighPerformingSchoolsintheUK

ProportionofHEApplicantsAcceptedintoHigherEducation

Progression into Higher Education

Goodexamresultsandhighlevelsofprogression

tohighereducationasawholearenoguaranteeof

success among the 30 most selective universities,

theguresinthisstudyshow(seeappendixfor

tables6,7,8).

EvenschoolswithverysimilarUCAStariffpoints

producedstrikinglydifferentoutcomesoverthethree

yearsofthestudy.Attwogrammarschoolswith

near-identicalpointsequatingtomorethanthree

AgradesatAlevel,oneschoolsaw28percent

ofUCASapplicantsenteroneofthe30selective

universities;theother55percent.Anindependent

school with the same points averaged 67 per cent.

Therewillalwaysbeisolatedexamplesofthissort

in a large education system, but similar contrasts

appearatalllevelsofresults.Atacomprehensive

andanindependentschoolinCornwallwithnear-

identical results, one sent 17 per cent to selective

universities and the other 66 per cent. Both

averaged350pointsincludingASlevels.

AttwocomprehensivesinthenorthofEngland,also

with identical results at only a slightly lower level,

onesent57percentofUCASapplicantstoselective

universities, the other 27 per cent.

Suchdifferencescannotbeexplainedbythe

abilityrange,butmaybeinuencedbyparental

backgrounds, geography, curriculum and

information,adviceandguidance(IAG).One

importantfactorforselectiveuniversityentryisthe

sixth-formcurriculum.TheRussellGroupuniversities

haveissuedalistof‘facilitating’subjectsthatare

valuedmorehighlybyforentrancethansomeofthe

newervocationalAlevels.Overthepast15years,

therehasbeenasignicantfallinthenumbersof

‘facilitating’subjectstaken,withcomprehensive

schools and colleges introducing a disproportionate

shareoftheothersubjectsinordertoappealtoa

widerrangeofyoungpeople.

TherearemanygoodexamplesofeffectiveIAG

throughout the state sector, but there is widespread

concern that poor advice may be contributing to

the low progression rates in many comprehensive

schoolsandfurthereducationcolleges.Admissions

staffinseveraloftheST30universitiesreportthat

itiscommonplaceforablecandidatestoseek

placesondegreesforwhichtheyarenotqualied.

TheRussellGroup’sreportInformedChoiceswas

promptedbythelargenumberofexamplesofthis.

Themoveawayfromtraditionalacademic

subjectshasbeenlessprevalentinindependent

andgrammarschools.Accordingtotheheadof

research at the Independent Schools Council, the

preferredsubjectsfortheRussellGrouplisttallies

withindependentschoolsubjects.Thecurriculum

in independent schools is designed with university

entrance in mind.

Independent school pupils are more than twice as

likely as those in comprehensives to be accepted

intooneofthemostselectiveuniversities:

independent schools had a 56 per cent success rate,

compared with 23 per cent in non selective state

schools,andalmost40percentingrammarschools.

Atthetenschoolswiththehighestadmissionsrates,

overathirdofuniversityentrantsfromtheschools

went to ST30 universities during the three years. Yet

more than 500 schools and colleges had less than

ten‘SuttonTrust30’entrantsoverthethreeyears.

Outofmorethan300schoolsandcolleges

identiedashavingoutstandingprogressionrates

toST30universities,giventheirmeanUCAStariff

scores,alargemajoritywereintheindependent

sector.Atotalof267independentschools(outof

438inthesurvey)didsignicantlybetterthanthe

averagefortheirresults,comparedwith20grammar

schools and 22 comprehensives.

Cockermouth School is not in the top 20 schools

inCumbriaforitsA-levelresults,whicharebelow

average nationally. But that does not mean

thatitfailsatgettingitsstudentsintouniversity,

selective or otherwise.

Theschool,whichisagenuineall-ability

comprehensive serving its local community,

isoneofonlyfourcomprehensiveschoolsto

bemarkedoutforhighlevelsofentrybothto

the most selective universities and to higher

education as a whole.

Cockermouth’sUCAStariffmeanof275points

is comparatively modest, but more than 90 per

centofthoseapplyingtoHEndaplace,while

37percentgotooneofthe30mostselective

universities. The school also sent nine students to

Oxbridgeoverthethreeyearsofthestudy.

Thesuccessratesaretheresultofmeticulous

planning. The school has a partnership

arrangement with Newcastle University and

regularvisitstoandfromtheUniversityof

Cumbria,butalsotoOxfordandCambridge.

Teachers discuss higher education with the pupils

atanearlyage,returningtothesubjectinmore

detailatthebeginningofYear12.Potentialhigher

educationcandidatesarethenshownexamples

ofwheretheirpredecessorshavegoneand

options are investigated in detail.

Later in the process, punctuated by regular

monitoring and assessment, a morning is devoted

topersonalstatementsandchoicesarenalised.

MostoptforuniversitiesinthenorthofEngland,

butthereisabroadspreadofapplications.

CharlotteDumbill,oneofthetwoheadsofsixth-

form,said:“Weencouragerealisticaspirations.

Theyapplyforuniversitiesatthetopendofwhat

they can achieve, but we encourage them to

includeabroadrangeofuniversities.”

MrsDumbilladded:“Wedon’tpushthemdown

thedegreerouteifitisnotrightforthem,butwe

have an aspirational parent body at the top end.

Theproleofthesixth-formhaschangedasit

hasgrownandthesocialproleisnowwiderthan

furtherdowntheschool.Weareputtingmoreand

moreintogettingtherightresults.”

Sutton Trust 30

TheSuttonTrust30groupingofhighlyselective

universities comprises universities in Scotland,

England and Wales with over 500 undergraduate

entrants each year, where it was estimated that less

than10percentofplacesareattainabletopupils

with200UCAStariffpoints(equivalenttotwoD

gradesandaCgradeatA-level)orless.These30

universities also emerge as the 30 most selective

according to the latest Times University Guide.

Bath

Birmingham

Bristol

Cambridge

Cardiff

Durham

Edinburgh

Exeter

Glasgow

Imperial College

King’s College London

Lancaster

Leeds

Leicester

Liverpool

LSE

Manchester

Newcastle

Nottingham

Oxford

Reading

Royal Holloway, London

Shefeld

Southampton

StAndrews

Strathclyde

Surrey

UCL

Warwick

York

Theseguresstronglysuggestthatitismore

thantheirexamresultsthatgiveindependent

such an edge in admissions to the most selective

universities.Someoftheirextrapreparationfor

universityapplicantsmayrequireresourcesthat

arebeyondthemeansofmanystateschools,but

muchofitisamatterofraisingaspirationsand

followingbestpracticethatalreadyexistsinthemost

successfulcomprehensiveandgrammarschools.

16DegreesofSuccess DegreesofSuccess17

Progression to Selective Universities Progression to Selective Universities

Independent school pupils are more

than twice as likely as pupils in

comprehensive schools to be accepted

intooneofthemost30mosthighly

selective universities

WhenrankedbythenumberofOxbridgeentrants,

fourschoolsandonecollegesentmorestudentsto

the ancient universities over the three years than

the bottom 2,000 schools and colleges put together.

Between them, Westminster School, Eton College,

HillsRoadSixthFormCollege,StPaulsSchool,

London,andStPaulsGirlsSchoolaccountedfor

946Oxbridgeentrantsovertheperiod.

Thisstarkcontrastillustratesboththeeminenceof

theleadingschools,withtheirhigh-abilityintakes,

andtheextenttowhichOxbridgeentryisstillbarely

ontheradarofmanyschools.Morethan1,300of

the 3,167 schools and colleges in this study did not

haveasingleOxbridgeentrantoverthethreeyears.

Another650hadnomorethantwo.

Someoftheseschoolshaveupto100studentsa

year applying to higher education, many with a good

successrate.ButtheabsenceofOxbridgeentrants

isseenasanaturalconsequenceoftheirintake,the

ambitionsofparentsandperceptionsoftheselection

system.Theconsiderableoutreachinitiativesofthe

two universities appear not to have succeeded in

persuadingmanypupils(orperhapsstaff)insuch

schoolsthatOxbridgeisarealisticambition.

ThesmallnumbersprogressingtoOxbridgefrom

mostschoolsmeanthataschool-by-schoolindicator

would be statistically unreliable, vulnerable to huge

swingsfromyeartoyear.Thisreport,therefore,

includestheresultsonlyoftheleadingschools,

while also showing entry by local authority.

AreportbytheSuttonTrustin2008showed

thatOxbridgeentrywasdominatedby100elite

schools.Thisstudyconrmsthatnding.The125

mostsuccessfulschoolsonthismeasureareall

selectiveandmostareindependent.Eventhefew

comprehensive schools that appear in the top 200

drawmostoftheirpupilsfromrelativelyprosperous

backgrounds.

The100topschoolsmakeup3percentofthose

withsixthformsandsixth-formcolleges,buttook

morethan30percentoftheplacesawardedby

OxfordandCambridge.Theyarecomposedof84

independent schools and 16 grammar schools.

Atthetopfourschools,allindependent,morethan

athirdoftheUCASapplicantswenttoOxford

orCambridge.AtWestminsterSchoolandEton

College,morethan70studentswenttoOxbridge

each year.

Insomeoftheleadingschools,thereappearstobe

aparticularlinkwithoneofthetwouniversities.At

Eton,forexample,133studentswenttoOxfordover

thethreeyears,butonly78toCambridge.AtQueen

Elizabeth’s School, in Barnet, north London, 59 went

toCambridge,butonly29toOxford.

Independent school pupils are more than seven

times as likely as those in comprehensives to

beacceptedatOxbridge.Some5.7percentof

independentschoolpupilswentontoOxfordor

Cambridge over the three years, compared with 0.8

percentinnon-selectivestateschoolsand3.4per

cent in grammar schools.

Given their selective intake, grammar schools would

appear to be underrepresented among the most

successfulschoolsforOxbridgeentry,althoughthey

stillwinasignicantshareoftheplacesoverall.

Comprehensives, with their broader intake, cannot

hopetomatchthemfortheproportionofsixth-

formerswinningplaces,butsomehaveasteady

streamofOxbridgeentrants.

CamdenSchoolforGirls,innorthLondon,for

example,averaged12Oxbridgeentrantsperyear,

almost evenly split between the two universities. The

BecketSchool,inWestBridgford,nearNottingham,

averagedsixplacesperyear,withalmosthalfofits

UCASapplicantsgoingtooneofthemostselective

universities.

Mostoftheschoolsthatenjoyregularsuccess

atOxbridgehavestructuredprogrammesfor

candidatesforthetwouniversities.Thesegenerally

includepracticeinterviews–oftenatpartnerschools

–andregularsessionstoensurethatcandidates

areengagingintheirchosensubjectbeyondthe

curriculum.

Forfulltablesseeappendix9,10,11.

School Name Type Total Oxbridge

acceptances

over 3 years

% of HE applicants

accepted at

Oxbridge

QueenElizabeth'sSchool,Barnet SEL 88 22.0%

Colchester Royal Grammar School SEL 72 18.8%

Reading School SEL 64 16.7%

Colyton Grammar School SEL 45 15.4%

Kendrick School SEL 45 15.2%

TheTifnGirlsSchool SEL 63 15.2%

The Latymer School SEL 103 14.7%

Pate's Grammar School SEL 75 14.7%

Henrietta Barnett School SEL 45 12.9%

St Olave's Grammar School SEL 61 12.3%

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Progression to Oxbridge

School Name Type Total Oxbridge

acceptances

over 3 years

% of HE applicants

accepted at

Oxbridge

St Pauls Girls School IND 129 45.7%

Westminster School IND 235 44.4%

The Stephen Perse Foundation IND 42 41.2%

St Pauls School, London Sw13 IND 167 35.6%

North London Collegiate School IND 107 32.5%

Winchester College IND 106 32.4%

WycombeAbbeySchool,HighWycombe IND 74 32.3%

OxfordHighSchoolGDST IND 70 31.0%

MagdalenCollegeSchool,Oxford IND 69 29.2%

Eton College IND 211 28.1%

Top 10 Schools in the UK-ProportionofHEApplicantsAcceptedatOxbridge

Top 10 State Schools in the UK-ProportionofHEApplicantsAcceptedatOxbridge

School Name Type Total Oxbridge

acceptances

over 3 years

% of HE

applicants

accepted at

Oxbridge

HillsRoadSixthFormCollege SFC 204 8.6%

Lady Margaret School COMP 15 8.3%

Sturminster Newton High School COMP 6 8.1%

Huntingdonshire Regional College GFE 4 7.4%

Kingussie High School COMP 3 7.3%

Camden School For Girls COMP 36 7.2%

ColstonsGirlsSchoolAcademy AC 5 6.8%

WatfordGrammarSchoolForGirls COMP 34 6.7%

The Cherwell School COMP 35 6.7%

Durham Johnston Comprehensive School COMP 23 6.6%

Top 10 Non Selective State Schools in the UK-ProportionofHEApplicants

AcceptedatOxbridge

Progression to Oxbridge

WhenrankedbythenumberofOxbridge

entrants,fourschoolsandonecollege

sent more students to the ancient

universitiesoverthethreeyearsofthis

study than the bottom 2,000 schools and

colleges put together.

Appendix 1 - Denitions, Assumptions and Caveats to the Data Appendix 1 - Denitions, Assumptions and Caveats to the Data

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1. Schools and Colleges

School and college type

School and college type is given as it was in summer

2009, although some schools have changed

sincethen(mainlyschoolsinEnglandbecoming

academies).Typemayhavechangedduringthe

period considered: again, this will include many

academies, and there have been various mergers in

thecollegesectorinEngland,someofwhichhave

merged small specialist colleges with larger general

FE colleges.

Tablesforindividualschoolshavebeenpublished

forallschoolswithdatainEngland;however,the

analysis and summary tables in this report are based

on all schools in the UK.

England:typegivenbyDepartmentforEducationin

the 2009 achievement and attainment tables.

Wales: all maintained secondary schools are

comprehensives.Collegetypeistakenfromalist

producedbyCollegesWalesin2009(nolonger

online–updatedversionatcollegeswales.ac.uk/

download.ashx?r=87)exceptforonesitewhichwas

classiedasAgricultureandHorticulture(Ag&H).

Scotland: all maintained secondary schools are

comprehensives and all FE colleges have been

classiedasgeneralFE.

Northern Ireland:alistofgrammarschoolsis

availablefromtheDepartmentofEducation,

NorthernIreland.Allothersecondariesaretreated

ascomprehensive.Allcollegesaretreatedas

generalFEexceptforonesitetreatedasAg&H.

Channel Islands: one college treated as general

FE. Schools are either grammar or comprehensive.

Thefollowingabbreviationsareusedinthetables:

What counts as a school or college?

Manycollegesoperatefrommorethanonesite,or

operateseparateunitswithinonesite,e.g.a‘sixth

formcollege’withinageneralFEcollege.UCAS

tends to treat these as separate entities and we

have maintained this approach.

Sixth form numbers

NumbersofsixthformstudentstakingA-levelsand

equivalentqualicationsaretakenfromDepartment

forEducation’sAchievementandAttainment

Tables(nowPerformanceTables).Onlyschools

andcollegeswithcompletedatafor2007to2009

are included so those which opened, closed,

mergedorchangedstatusareexcluded,asare

somewithsmallnumbersofstudents.Notethat

these will include students who are not regarded

asUK-domiciledforthepurposeofapplyingto

applyingeducation.Thismaymeanthatforsome

independentschoolswithahighproportiononnon-

UKdomiciledstudents,thegureswillsuggesta

lowerproportionofUKstudentsprogressingtoHE

than is actually the case.

Average point scores for A-levels or equivalent

qualications

InthepublishedHEdestinationtablesforschoolsfor

England,wehavelistedforeachschooltheaverage

pointscoresforA-levelsorequivalentqualications

forpupilspublishedannuallybytheDepartmentfor

Educationinschoolperformancetables,basedon

ascoringsystemdevelopedbytheQualication

andCurriculumAuthority.UndertheQCAscoring

system,A-levelpointsarecalculatedasfollows:A

gradeequals270;B=240;C=210;D=180;E=

150.

Theguresquotedintheannualperformancetables

forschoolsandsixthformcollegesaredifferent

tothoseusedunderthetariffdeployedbythe

UniversitiesandCollegesAdmissionsService,also

basedonforA-levelsorequivalentqualications.

ThisUCAStariffisalsousedandreferredtointhis

summaryreport.UndertheUCAStariffsystem,

A-levelpointsarecalculatedasfollows:Agrade

equals120points;B=100;C=80;D=60;E=40.

Schools with high progression rates

In the published HE destination tables we

haveaggedschoolsandcollegesthathavea

signicantlyhigheracceptanceratetohigher

education or selective universities than other schools

withasimilaraverageexamresultsattheendof

sixthformstudy.

2.StudentApplicants

ApplicantsarethoseUKdomiciledstudentsaged

18or19rstapplyingin2007,2008or2009.These

includestudentsattendingschoolsintheIsleofMan

andtheChannelIslands.Threeyearsofdatawas

used to provide a robust but still recent measure

ofparticipationratestohighereducation.Schools

with less than ten applicants in any one application

roundareexcludedfromtheUCASdataleand

hencefromtheanalysis.UCAScannotaccept

responsibilityforanyinferencesorconclusions

derivedfromthedatabythirdparties.

Delayed applications

Someoftheseapplicantswillalsohaveappliedin

theyearfollowingtheirrstapplication.Inthese

cases,thedestinationistakenasthatfollowing

thesecondapplication.(UCASisinformedbya

university that a student has been accepted: the

student may decide not to take up the place and

applyagaininasubsequentapplicationround.)

Asmallproportionofstudentsmayhavemade

more than two applications or may have initially

appliedinoneyear,notappliedinthefollowingyear

butthenappliedinasubsequentyear.Theselater

applicationshavebeenignored.(Thegreaterthe

intervalbetweenrstapplicationandasubsequent

one,thegreaterthelikelihoodthatfactorsother

thantheschoolattendedareinuencingstudents

decisions.)

Deferred applications

Approximately20,000applicantsmadeatleastone

applicationfordeferredentryintouniversityeachof

the past three years. These applicants appear in the

UCASstatisticsonlyintheyearinwhichtheyapply.

3. Higher Education Institutions

ParticipationratesareforallUKhighereducation

institutionsontheUCASdatabase

Sutton Trust 30

TheSuttonTrust30groupingofhighlyselective

universities comprises universities in Scotland,

England and Wales with over 500 undergraduate

entrants each year, where it was estimated that less

than10percentofplacesareattainabletopupils

with200UCAStariffpoints(equivalenttotwoD

gradesandaCgradeatA-level)orless.These30

universities also emerge as the 30 most selective

according to the latest Times University Guide.

UniversityofBath

UniversityofBirmingham

UniversityofBristol

UniversityofCambridge

CardiffUniversity

UniversityofDurham

UniversityofEdinburgh

UniversityofExeter

UniversityofGlasgow

Imperial College

King’s College London

Lancaster University

UniversityofLeeds

UniversityofLeicester

UniversityofLiverpool

LondonSchoolofEconomics&PoliticalScience

UniversityofManchester

UniversityofNewcastle

UniversityofNottingham

UniversityofOxford

UniversityofReading

RoyalHolloway,UniversityofLondon

UniversityofShefeld

UniversityofSouthampton

UniversityofStAndrews

UniversityofStrathclyde

UniversityofSurrey

University College London

UniversityofWarwick

UniversityofYork

OxbridgeData

DatafromCambridgeandOxfordUniversitieswere

obtaineddirectlyfromthetwouniversitiesand

combined. These data are included in this report, but

donotformpartofthepublishedtablesforschools.

Theguresarebasedonstudentacceptancesover

three years between 2007 and 2009.

AC Academy(Englandonly)

ADP Specialistart,designandperforming

arts college

Ag&H Specialist agriculture and horticulture

college

COMP Comprehensive school

GFE General FE college

HE Higher education institution

IND Independentschool(includes

independentsixthformcolleges)

MOD Modernschool(Englandonly)

SEL Selective(grammar)school

SFC Sixthformcollege

SixthForm

Centre

Acomprehensiveschoolwithanage

rangeof16-18

TC Tertiary college

Appendix 2 - School Rankings

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Table6-Top100SchoolsintheUK

ProportionofHEApplicantsAcceptedatHighlySelectiveUniveristies(ST30)

Table6-Top100SchoolsintheUK

ProportionofHEApplicantsAcceptedatHighlySelectiveUniveristies(ST30)

School Name School

type

Total ST30

acceptances

over 3 years

% of HE

applicants

accepted at

ST30 unis

Exam points

per student

accepted into

highly selective

universities

North London Collegiate School IND 305 92.7% 504.3

Withington Girls' School IND 222 92.1% 571.0

OxfordHighSchoolGDST IND 203 89.8% 472.9

MagdalenCollegeSchool,Oxford IND 211 89.4% 467.4

St Catherine's School, Bramley IND 152 88.9% 486.5

Westminster School IND 470 88.8% 543.2

Manchester Grammar School IND 493 88.8% 430.2

St Pauls School, London Sw13 IND 416 88.7% 464.6

Haberdashers'Aske'sSchoolForGirls,Elstree IND 330 88.5% 421.3

GuildfordHighSchool IND 221 88.4% 461.2

Winchester College IND 288 88.1% 472.6

King Edward VI High School For Girls IND 209 87.8% 548.9

QueenElizabeth'sSchool,Barnet SEL 350 87.5% 487.0

The Perse School IND 282 87.3% 454.2

JamesAllensGirlsSchool IND 238 87.2% 504.8

Haberdashers'Askes'sBoys'School IND 399 87.1% 427.8

King's College School IND 398 87.1% 565.9

RoyalGrammarSchoolGuildford IND 347 87.0% 425.3

StMarysSchool,Ascot IND 120 87.0% 457.0

Manchester High School For Girls, Manchester IND 242 86.7% 451.1

St Pauls Girls School IND 244 86.5% 471.4

Cheltenham Ladies' College IND 262 86.5% 446.6

WycombeAbbeySchool,HighWycombe IND 198 86.5% 513.9

The Lady Eleanor Holles School IND 219 86.2% 520.1

Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood IND 343 85.1% 493.8

Hampton School IND 412 84.8% 564.7

Sevenoaks School IND 391 84.1% 607.8

King Edward's School, Edgbaston IND 294 83.5% 510.1

NottingHill&EalingHighSchool IND 173 83.2% 416.7

King Edward VI School, Southampton IND 264 82.5% 404.9

AbingdonSchool IND 258 82.4% 426.0

The Stephen Perse Foundation IND 84 82.4% 518.7

St Swithun's School IND 133 82.1% 513.8

Marlborough College IND 442 82.0% 435.0

St. Helen's School IND 205 82.0% 413.3

TheSchoolOfStHelen&StKatharine IND 199 81.9% 434.1

Oundle School IND 421 81.7% 419.3

Pate's Grammar School SEL 416 81.6% 520.5

CityOfLondonSchoolForGirls IND 177 81.6% 445.3

Colyton Grammar School SEL 238 81.5% 568.9

StAlbansSchool IND 277 81.5% 477.2

Reading School SEL 312 81.5% 443.3

CityOfLondonSchool IND 292 81.3% 449.1

University College School IND 244 81.3% 425.7

TheGodolphinAndLatymerSchool IND 226 81.3% 448.2

Rugby School IND 372 81.2% 435.9

Downe House School IND 186 81.2% 492.0

Charterhouse IND 372 81.0% 405.2

BancroftsSchool IND 267 80.9% 437.9

Badminton School IND 72 80.9% 429.1

Colchester Royal Grammar School SEL 308 80.6% 592.8

StAlbansHighSchoolForGirls IND 186 80.5% 417.9

Highgate School IND 324 80.4% 425.5

Loughborough High School IND 187 80.3% 500.9

TheTifnGirlsSchool SEL 333 80.2% 517.2

Harrow School IND 334 79.9% 436.3

Benenden School IND 143 79.9% 406.0

St Olave's Grammar School SEL 397 79.9% 476.8

South Hampstead High School IND 174 79.8% 428.6

Tonbridge School IND 328 79.8% 435.1

Reigate Grammar School IND 260 79.8% 446.4

Nottingham High School For Girls IND 238 79.6% 492.5

TormeadSchool,Guildford IND 144 79.6% 485.5

Alleyn'sSchool,Dulwich IND 318 79.5% 492.1

Radley College IND 314 79.5% 443.6

Kendrick School SEL 235 79.4% 475.2

Bolton School Girls' Division IND 242 79.1% 483.2

St Mary's School, Calne IND 86 78.9% 429.9

KingEdwardVIGrammarSchool,Chelmsford SEL 345 78.8% 543.9

Dulwich College IND 363 78.6% 418.5

Putney High School IND 142 78.5% 421.0

HeadingtonSchool,Oxford IND 174 78.4% 421.1

Eton College IND 589 78.3% 474.3

The King's School, Chester IND 235 78.1% 415.1

King Edward VI Camp Hill School For Boys SEL 240 77.9% 580.1

AbbeySchool,Reading IND 164 77.7% 434.7

The Latymer School SEL 544 77.7% 434.3

Eltham College IND 227 77.5% 404.8

St Peter's School, York IND 243 77.1% 430.9

Wimbledon High School IND 161 77.0% 428.7

Appendix 2 - School Rankings Appendix 2 - School Rankings

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Table6-Top100SchoolsintheUK

ProportionofHEApplicantsAcceptedatHighlySelectiveUniveristies(ST30)

Table7-Top100StateSchoolsintheUK

ProportionofHEApplicantsAcceptedatHighlySelectiveUniveristies(ST30)

Maynard School IND 110 76.9% 414.4

WhitgiftSchool,SouthCroydon IND 303 76.9% 450.1

Kings School, Canterbury IND 342 76.9% 426.3

RoyalGrammarSchool,Newcastle-Upon-Tyne IND 390 76.8% 436.0

Henrietta Barnett School SEL 267 76.7% 426.7

Sherborne School For Girls IND 101 76.5% 382.7

The Grange School, Northwich IND 214 76.4% 498.0

BradfordGrammarSchool IND 300 76.3% 425.7

Nottingham High School IND 237 76.2% 508.0

Wilson's School SEL 289 76.1% 522.6

King's High School Warwick IND 155 76.0% 400.6

Wellington College, Crowthorne IND 340 75.9% 387.8

CityOfLondonFreemen'sSchool IND 192 75.9% 490.6

TheQueen'sSchool,Chester IND 107 75.9% 435.8

Loughborough Grammar School, Loughborough IND 276 75.8% 494.4

Latymer Upper School IND 366 75.6% 435.1

Shrewsbury School IND 253 75.5% 398.3

Cheadle Hulme School IND 267 75.4% 448.1

Tudor Hall School IND 84 75.0% 387.8

CanfordSchool IND 271 74.9% 413.0

Key to Tables 6,7,8

Total ST30 acceptances over 3 years

Thetotalnumberofstudentsacceptedduringthe

years2007-09byoneofthehighlyselective‘Sutton

Trust30’universities(denedonpage17).

% of HE applicants accepted at ST30 unis

TheproportionofUCASapplicantsoverthethree

yearsacceptedbyoneofthehighlyselective‘Sutton

Trust30’universities(denedonpage17).

Exam points per student accepted into highly

selective universities

The average attainment measure used in these

tablesisthetariffdeployedbytheUniversitiesand

CollegesAdmissionsService,alsobasedonfor

A-levelsorequivalentqualications.Underthe

UCAStariffsystem,A-levelpointsarecalculated

asfollows:Agradeequals120points;B=100;C

=80;D=60;E=40.Welisttheaverageforpupils

acceptedbyoneofthehighlyselective‘SuttonTrust

30’ universities.

School Name School

type

Total ST30

acceptances

over 3 years

% of HE

applicants

accepted at

ST30 unis

Exam points

per student

accepted into

highly selective

universities

QueenElizabeth'sSchool,Barnet SEL 350 87.5% 487.0

Pate's Grammar School SEL 416 81.6% 520.5

Colyton Grammar School SEL 238 81.5% 568.9

Reading School SEL 312 81.5% 443.3

Colchester Royal Grammar School SEL 308 80.6% 592.8

TheTifnGirlsSchool SEL 333 80.2% 517.2

St Olave's Grammar School SEL 397 79.9% 476.8

Kendrick School SEL 235 79.4% 475.2

KingEdwardVIGrammarSchool,Chelmsford SEL 345 78.8% 543.9

King Edward VI Camp Hill School For Boys SEL 240 77.9% 580.1

The Latymer School SEL 544 77.7% 434.3

Henrietta Barnett School SEL 267 76.7% 426.7

Wilson's School SEL 289 76.1% 522.6

Blue Coat School, Liverpool SEL 330 74.5% 476.6

The Judd School, Tonbridge SEL 307 73.3% 462.4

King Edward VI Camphill School For Girls SEL 265 73.0% 531.3

Lady Margaret School COMP 132 72.9% 407.6

WatfordGrammarSchoolForGirls COMP 370 72.8% 417.3

Newstead Wood School For Girls SEL 291 71.3% 462.3

AltrinchamGirlsGrammarSchool SEL 312 70.9% 502.0

TifnSchool SEL 353 70.7% 434.0

Dr Challoners Grammar School SEL 369 70.4% 533.3

Royal Grammar School, Buckinghamshire SEL 376 69.4% 439.6

WatfordGrammarSchoolForBoys COMP 341 69.2% 430.8

Dr Challoner's High School SEL 283 69.0% 440.0

AltrinchamGrammarSchoolForBoys,

Altrincham

SEL 273 68.9% 501.4

King Edward VI Five Ways School SEL 334 68.9% 497.1

DameAliceOwen'sSchool COMP 401 68.4% 407.1

Colchester County High School For Girls SEL 229 68.2% 497.7

Ermysted's Grammar, Skipton SEL 161 67.6% 522.7

Sutton Grammar School For Boys SEL 221 67.6% 483.0

Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School COMP 292 67.4% 398.3

Wallington County Grammar School SEL 267 67.4% 517.8

Lancaster Royal Grammar School SEL 277 67.1% 508.5

Nonsuch High School For Girls SEL 294 66.7% 499.5

StNiniansHighSchool,Giffnock COMP 188 66.2% 576.9

Tonbridge Grammar School SEL 280 66.0% 471.8

School Type

School and college type is given as it was in summer

2009.Thefollowingabbreviationsareusedinthe

tables:

AC    Academy

ADP   Specialistart,designand

     performingartscollege

Ag&H  Specialistagricultureand

horticulture college

COMP Comprehensive school

GFE General FE college

HE Higher education institution

IND Independent school

     (includesindependentsixth

     formcolleges)

MOD Modern school

SEL   Selective(grammar)school

SFC   Sixthformcollege

Sixthformcentre Acomprehensiveschool

     withanagerangeof16-18

TC Tertiary college

Appendix 2 - School Rankings Appendix 2 - School Rankings

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Table7-Top100StateSchoolsintheUK

ProportionofHEApplicantsAcceptedatHighlySelectiveUniveristies(ST30)

Table7-100Top100StateSchoolsintheUK

ProportionofHEApplicantsacceptedatHighlySelectiveUniveristies(ST30)

JFS COMP 406 66.0% 384.8

StratfordUponAvonGrammarSchoolForGirls SEL 210 65.8% 476.9

Sir William Borlase's Grammar School SEL 316 65.7% 458.1

Wolverhampton Girls' High School SEL 199 65.5% 501.3

ChelmsfordCountyHighSchool,Chelmsford SEL 245 64.8% 540.5

TorquayBoysGrammarSchool SEL 276 64.8% 501.9

Adams'GrammarSchool SEL 237 64.8% 465.2

QueenMary'sGrammarSchoolForBoys SEL 198 64.1% 494.3

King Edward VI School, Warwickshire SEL 132 63.8% 516.6

Skinners School SEL 186 63.1% 391.6

HillsRoadSixthFormCollege SFC 1494 63.0% 471.6

Lancaster Girls Grammar School SEL 264 62.4% 515.7

WoodfordCountyHighSchool,Woodford

Green

SEL 225 62.3% 409.8

Tunbridge Wells Girls' Grammar School SEL 197 62.1% 422.0

Caistor Grammar School, Market Rasen SEL 129 62.0% 483.0

AylesburyGrammarSchool SEL 315 62.0% 456.3

DouglasAcademy COMP 109 61.9% 473.5

Bishop Veseys Grammar School SEL 242 61.7% 473.7

St Michael's Catholic Grammar School SEL 211 61.5% 464.0

King Edward VI Handsworth School SEL 203 61.5% 524.0

Bishop Wordsworth's Grammar School SEL 219 61.0% 429.2

Kings School, Grantham SEL 191 60.4% 467.6

Hillhead High School COMP 53 60.2% 442.2

WelbeckDefenceSixthFormCollege SFC 270 60.0% 404.3

Ripon Grammar School SEL 180 59.6% 492.1

Redland High School For Girls Sixth

form

centre

87 59.6% 410.2

StAmbroseCollege SEL 150 59.5% 449.3

Wirral Grammar School For Girls SEL 226 59.0% 513.1

Skipton Girls' High School SEL 151 59.0% 486.8

Newport Girls' High School SEL 79 59.0% 480.3

BeaconseldHighSchool SEL 256 58.9% 418.8

TheBelvedereAcademy AC 79 58.5% 475.6

Poole Grammar School SEL 227 58.5% 510.0

AylesburyHighSchool SEL 300 58.5% 427.9

WestcliffHighSchoolForBoys,WestCliff SEL 195 58.4% 487.9

The London Oratory School COMP 284 58.3% 400.3

Wycombe High School, High Wycombe SEL 306 58.2% 427.7

Wirral Grammar School For Boys SEL 197 58.1% 469.9

South Wilts Grammar School SEL 241 58.1% 459.6

HockerillAnglo-EuropeanCollege COMP 77 57.9% 517.9

Royal Latin School SEL 306 57.7% 404.3

Bourne Grammar School SEL 186 57.6% 474.6

Sir Thomas Rich's School SEL 195 57.5% 450.6

King David High, Liverpool COMP 127 57.2% 400.1

Durham Johnston Comprehensive School COMP 199 57.2% 419.1

Cranbrook School SEL 237 57.1% 392.0

QueenElizabeth'sHighSchool,Gainsborough SEL 209 57.1% 463.0

West Kirby Grammar School SEL 246 56.8% 487.4

Mearns Castle High School COMP 160 56.7% 482.2

SuttonColdeldGrammarSchoolForGirls SEL 194 55.9% 491.1

KingEdwardVIAston SEL 177 55.7% 479.0

LoretoGrammarSchool,Altrincham SEL 185 55.6% 398.3

Parmiter's School COMP 226 55.3% 405.3

Parkstone Grammar School SEL 244 55.1% 482.2

St Lukes High School COMP 40 54.8% 538.2

St Bernard's Catholic Grammar School SEL 179 54.6% 463.5

GuildfordCountySchool COMP 86 54.4% 424.4

StMary'sRCHigh,Chestereld COMP 194 54.3% 464.6

St Ninian's High School, Glasgow COMP 45 54.2% 520.3

TorquayGrammarSchoolForGirls SEL 175 54.2% 395.8

StThomasAquinasSchool,Glasgow COMP 33 54.1% 426.1

QueenElizabethGrammarSchool,Penrith SEL 160 53.9% 474.0

IlfordCountyHighSchool,Ilford SEL 200 53.8% 435.5

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Table8-Top100ComprehensiveSchoolsintheUK

ProportionofHEApplicantsacceptedatHighlySelectiveUniveristies(ST30)

Table8-Top100ComprehensiveSchoolsintheUK

ProportionofHEApplicantsacceptedatHighlySelectiveUniveristies(ST30)

School Name Total ST30

acceptances

over 3 years

% of HE

applicants

accepted at

ST30 unis

Exam points

per student

accepted into

highly selective

universities

Lady Margaret School 132 72.9% 407.6

WatfordGrammarSchoolForGirls 370 72.8% 417.3

WatfordGrammarSchoolForBoys 341 69.2% 430.8

DameAliceOwen'sSchool 401 68.4% 407.1

Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School 292 67.4% 398.3

StNiniansHighSchool,Giffnock 188 66.2% 576.9

JFS 406 66.0% 384.8

DouglasAcademy 109 61.9% 473.5

Hillhead High School 53 60.2% 442.2

The London Oratory School 284 58.3% 400.3

HockerillAnglo-EuropeanCollege 77 57.9% 517.9

King David High, Liverpool 127 57.2% 400.1

Durham Johnston Comprehensive School 199 57.2% 419.1

Mearns Castle High School 160 56.7% 482.2

Parmiter's School 226 55.3% 405.3

St Lukes High School 40 54.8% 538.2

GuildfordCountySchool 86 54.4% 424.4

StMary'sRCHigh,Chestereld 194 54.3% 464.6

St Ninian's High School, Glasgow 45 54.2% 520.3

StThomasAquinasSchool,Glasgow 33 54.1% 426.1

Camden School For Girls 268 53.6% 397.0

QueenElizabeth'sGrammarSchool,Ashbourne 136 53.1% 467.9

WallaceHallAcademy 45 52.9% 477.7

The King's School, Peterborough 244 52.7% 476.5

Williamwood High School 155 52.4% 562.4

Cowbridge Comprehensive School 188 51.6% 438.8

Ecclesbourne School 234 51.5% 442.6

Eastwood High School 73 51.4% 492.2

Our Lady's High School, Motherwell 41 51.3% 434.4

BoclairAcademy,Glasgow 73 51.0% 445.8

The Cherwell School 267 50.9% 448.4

StAidans&StJohnFisherAssociatedSixthForm,

Harrogate

384 50.8% 470.6

BearsdenAcademy 115 50.7% 462.8

StThomasOfAquinsHighSchool,Edinburgh 58 50.4% 471.2

Ilkley Grammar School 189 50.4% 429.3

Park Mains High School 77 50.3% 480.8

LenzieAcademy,Glasgow 132 50.2% 487.8

Mill Hill County High School 308 50.1% 390.7

Fallibroome High 185 50.0% 393.1

Roundwood Park School, Harpenden 156 50.0% 446.8

StewartonAcademy,Kilmarnock 41 50.0% 411.8

Caerleon Comprehensive School 185 50.0% 467.8

St Georges School, Harpenden 202 49.9% 391.9

WestBridgfordSchool 158 49.7% 467.5

KingEdwardVIISchool,Shefeld 265 49.5% 406.6

GrangeAcademy,Kilmarnock 53 49.5% 448.7

GreenockAcademy,Greenock 53 49.5% 463.1

LargsAcademy 92 49.5% 461.3

OldSwinfordHospital,Stourbridge 179 49.4% 388.0

Notre Dame High School, Glasgow 41 49.4% 441.8

Bartholomew School, Witney 76 49.4% 412.0

The Becket School 142 49.3% 478.7

Turnbull High School, Glasgow 56 49.1% 485.8

St Benedicts Upper School, Bury St Edmunds 82 49.1% 490.0

StMatthewsAcademy,Saltcoats 52 49.1% 449.1

The Downs School 98 49.0% 425.3

Gourock High School 49 49.0% 476.1

St Columbas High School, Gourock 24 49.0% 427.3

ShawlandsAcademy,Glasgow 66 48.9% 409.2

Kingussie High School 20 48.8% 503.5

Stirling High School, Stirling 55 48.7% 501.8

James Gillespie High School 107 48.6% 497.8

AuchinlekAcademy 34 48.6% 487.3

Paisley Grammar School 51 48.6% 454.7

Malton School 67 48.6% 489.1

PrestwickAcademy 67 48.6% 474.7

Holyrood Secondary School 111 48.5% 480.1

FulfordSchool 186 48.3% 472.6

OurLady&StPatrick'sHighSchool 55 48.2% 460.9

King David High School, Manchester 132 48.2% 405.6

Boroughmuir High School 105 48.2% 467.3

StAndrewsHighSchool,Coatbridge 39 48.1% 439.5

Silverdale School 200 48.1% 417.4

Stokesley School 166 48.0% 434.5

YsgolBrynhyfryd 118 48.0% 482.0

Calderglen High School 82 48.0% 471.6

Kenilworth School 244 47.9% 425.2

AudenshawSchool 147 47.9% 496.6

Lourdes Secondary School, Glasgow 33 47.8% 473.9

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Table8-Top100ComprehensiveSchoolsintheUK

ProportionofHEApplicantsacceptedatHighlySelectiveUniveristies(ST30)

Table9-Top100SchoolsintheUK

ProportionofHEApplicantsAcceptedatOxbridge

St Mary's Rc Comprehensive, Ilkley 142 47.8% 483.4

St Bartholomews School 180 47.6% 456.5

Dunblane High School 60 47.6% 461.3

Notre Dame High School, Greenock 48 47.5% 484.9

Lochgilphead High School, Lochgilphead 28 47.5% 483.5

Northampton School For Boys 237 47.4% 485.8

BishopbriggsAcademy 72 47.4% 490.8

Stonelaw High School, Glasgow 36 47.4% 436.8

FortroseAcademy 60 47.2% 496.2

BalfronHighSchool 77 47.2% 467.0

St John The Baptist Rc Secondary School 108 47.2% 408.1

Harrogate Grammar School 248 47.1% 441.4

St Edwards College 198 46.9% 384.9

StPeterTheApostleHighSchool 60 46.9% 428.2

RadyrComprehensiveSchool,Cardiff 161 46.7% 399.3

WoodfarmHighSchool 50 46.3% 545.6

St Cuthbert's High School, Newcastle 86 46.2% 393.0

StAmbroseHighSchool 73 46.2% 453.6

Tapton School 271 46.2% 435.9

St Leonard's Catholic School 154 46.1% 374.3

StAndrewsAcademy 50 45.9% 466.8

School Name Type Total Oxbridge

acceptances

over the three

years

% of HE

applicants

accepted at

Oxbridge

Exam points

per student

accepted into

highly selective

universities

St Pauls Girls School IND 129 45.7% 471.4

Westminster School IND 235 44.4% 543.2

The Stephen Perse Foundation IND 42 41.2% 518.7

St Pauls School, London IND 167 35.6% 464.6

North London Collegiate School IND 107 32.5% 504.3

Winchester College IND 106 32.4% 472.6

WycombeAbbeySchool,HighWycombe IND 74 32.3% 513.9

OxfordHighSchoolGDST IND 70 31.0% 472.9

MagdalenCollegeSchool,Oxford IND 69 29.2% 467.4

Eton College IND 211 28.1% 474.3

CityOfLondonSchoolForGirls IND 59 27.2% 445.3

JamesAllensGirlsSchool IND 67 24.5% 504.8

Haberdashers'Aske'sSchoolForGirls,Elstree IND 90 24.1% 421.3

GuildfordHighSchool IND 60 24.0% 461.2

King's College School IND 104 22.8% 565.9

RoyalGrammarSchoolGuildford IND 88 22.1% 425.3

QueenElizabeth'sSchool,Barnet SEL 88 22.0% 487.0

University College School IND 62 20.7% 425.7

Sevenoaks School IND 96 20.6% 607.8

Haberdashers'Askes'sBoys'School IND 94 20.5% 427.8

South Hampstead High School IND 44 20.2% 428.6

Manchester Grammar School IND 109 19.6% 430.2

Cheltenham Ladies' College IND 59 19.5% 446.6

Colchester Royal Grammar School SEL 72 18.8% 592.8

The Perse School IND 59 18.3% 454.2

TheGodolphinAndLatymerSchool IND 49 17.6% 448.2

CityOfLondonSchool IND 63 17.5% 449.1

St Catherine's School, Bramley IND 30 17.5% 486.5

Highgate School IND 69 17.1% 425.5

Reading School SEL 64 16.7% 443.3

TheSchoolOfStHelen&StKatharine IND 40 16.5% 434.1

Withington Girls' School IND 39 16.2% 571.0

AbingdonSchool IND 50 16.0% 426.0

StMarysSchool,Ascot IND 22 15.9% 457.0

Tonbridge School IND 65 15.8% 435.1

Colyton Grammar School SEL 45 15.4% 568.9

Kendrick School SEL 45 15.2% 475.2

TheTifnGirlsSchool SEL 63 15.2% 517.2

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Table9-Top100SchoolsintheUK

ProportionofHEApplicantsAcceptedatOxbridge

Table9-Top100SchoolsintheUK

ProportionofHEApplicantsAcceptedatOxbridge

The Lady Eleanor Holles School IND 38 15.0% 520.1

The Latymer School SEL 103 14.7% 434.3

Pate's Grammar School SEL 75 14.7% 520.5

Loughborough High School IND 34 14.6% 500.9

St Mary's School, Cambridge IND 9 14.1% 408.5

RoedeanSchool(includingStMary'sHall) IND 12 13.8% 427.1

Alleyn'sSchool,Dulwich IND 55 13.8% 492.1

Kings School, Canterbury IND 60 13.5% 426.3

Badminton School IND 12 13.5% 429.1

WhitgiftSchool,SouthCroydon IND 53 13.5% 450.1

Oundle School IND 68 13.2% 419.3

King Edward VI High School For Girls IND 31 13.0% 548.9

St Swithun's School IND 21 13.0% 513.8

Hampton School IND 63 13.0% 564.7

Henrietta Barnett School SEL 45 12.9% 426.7

Harrow School IND 54 12.9% 436.3

Brighton College IND 46 12.8% 414.7

King Edward's School, Edgbaston IND 44 12.5% 510.1

Queen'sGateSchool IND 9 12.3% 403.2

St Olave's Grammar School SEL 61 12.3% 476.8

Latymer Upper School IND 59 12.2% 435.1

St Mary's School, Calne IND 13 11.9% 429.9

Radley College IND 47 11.9% 443.6

Downe House School IND 27 11.8% 492.0

AshfordSchool,Ashford IND 8 11.8% 418.9

Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood IND 47 11.7% 493.8

Rugby School IND 53 11.6% 435.9

Loughborough Grammar School,

Loughborough

IND 42 11.5% 494.4

Newstead Wood School For Girls SEL 47 11.5% 462.3

BancroftsSchool IND 38 11.5% 437.9

KingEdwardVIGrammarSchool,Chelmsford SEL 50 11.4% 543.9

CanfordSchool IND 41 11.3% 413.0

TheGrammarSchoolAtLeeds IND 67 11.3% 455.7

ExeterSchool IND 32 11.3% 428.1

Dr Challoners Grammar School SEL 59 11.3% 533.3

TifnSchool SEL 56 11.2% 434.0

Chetham'sSchoolOfMusic IND 8 11.1% 387.1

ChelmsfordCountyHighSchool,Chelmsford SEL 42 11.1% 540.5

Fettes College, Edinburgh IND 28 11.1% 488.0

Dean Close School IND 25 11.1% 406.2

Putney High School IND 20 11.0% 421.0

Wells Cathedral School IND 15 10.9% 396.7

Bishop Wordsworth's Grammar School SEL 39 10.9% 429.2

Saint Gabriel's School IND 8 10.8% 408.1

St Bees School IND 8 10.7% 465.2

UnitedWorldCollegeOfTheAtlantic IND 14 10.6% 544.5

Wimbledon High School IND 22 10.5% 428.7

RoyalGrammarSchool,Newcastle-Upon-Tyne IND 53 10.4% 436.0

AbbeySchool,Reading IND 22 10.4% 434.7

Dulwich College IND 48 10.4% 418.5

HeadingtonSchool,Oxford IND 23 10.4% 421.1

Charterhouse IND 47 10.2% 405.2

Moira House Girls School IND 5 10.2% 396.0

ShefeldHighSchoolForGirls IND 23 10.2% 429.2

KingAlfredSchool,London IND 8 10.1% 409.7

Benenden School IND 18 10.1% 406.0

The Portsmouth Grammar School IND 40 10.0% 415.3

St Francis' College IND 7 10.0% 424.8

Chigwell School IND 20 10.0% 413.1

Nottingham High School IND 31 10.0% 508.0

Bristol Grammar School IND 43 9.9% 410.1

St Peter's School, York IND 31 9.8% 430.9

Key to Tables 9,10,11

Total Oxbridge acceptances over 3 years

Thetotalnumberofstudentsacceptedduringthe

years2007-09acceptedbyOxfordorCambridge

universities.

% of HE applicants accepted at Oxbridge

TheproportionofUCASapplicantsoverthethree

yearsacceptedbyacceptedbyOxfordorCambridge

universities.

Exam points per student accepted into highly

selective universities

The average attainment measure used in these

tablesisthetariffdeployedbytheUniversitiesand

CollegesAdmissionsService,alsobasedonfor

A-levelsorequivalentqualications.Underthe

UCAStariffsystem,A-levelpointsarecalculated

asfollows:Agradeequals120points;B=100;C

=80;D=60;E=40.Welisttheaverageforpupils

acceptedbyoneofthehighlyselective‘SuttonTrust

30’ universities.

School Type

School and college type is given as it was in summer

2009.Thefollowingabbreviationsareusedinthe

tables:

AC    Academy

ADP   Specialistart,designand

     performingartscollege

Ag&H  Specialistagricultureand

horticulture college

COMP Comprehensive school

GFE General FE college

HE Higher education institution

IND Independent school

     (includesindependent 

     sixthformcolleges)

MOD Modern school

SEL   Selective(grammar)school

SFC   Sixthformcollege

Sixthformcentre Acomprehensiveschool

     withanagerangeof16-18

TC Tertiary college

34DegreesofSuccess DegreesofSuccess35

Table10-Top100StateSchoolsintheUK

ProportionofHEApplicantsAcceptedatOxbridge

Table10-Top100StateSchoolsintheUK

ProportionofHEApplicantsAcceptedatOxbridge

Appendix 2 - School RankingsAppendix 2 - School Rankings

School Name Type Total

Oxbridge

acceptances

over the

three years

% of HE

applicants

accepted at

Oxbridge

Exam points

per student

accepted into

highly selective

universities

QueenElizabeth'sSchool,Barnet SEL 88 22.0% 487.0

Colchester Royal Grammar School SEL 72 18.8% 592.8

Reading School SEL 64 16.7% 443.3

Colyton Grammar School SEL 45 15.4% 568.9

Kendrick School SEL 45 15.2% 475.2

TheTifnGirlsSchool SEL 63 15.2% 517.2

The Latymer School SEL 103 14.7% 434.3

Pate's Grammar School SEL 75 14.7% 520.5

Henrietta Barnett School SEL 45 12.9% 426.7

St Olave's Grammar School SEL 61 12.3% 476.8

Newstead Wood School For Girls SEL 47 11.5% 462.3

King Edward VI Grammar School,

Chelmsford

SEL 50 11.4% 543.9

Dr Challoners Grammar School SEL 59 11.3% 533.3

TifnSchool SEL 56 11.2% 434.0

ChelmsfordCountyHighSchool,

Chelmsford

SEL 42 11.1% 540.5

Bishop Wordsworth's Grammar School SEL 39 10.9% 429.2

Wilson's School SEL 37 9.7% 522.6

StratfordUponAvonGrammarSchoolFor

Girls

SEL 31 9.7% 476.9

AltrinchamGrammarSchoolForBoys,

Altrincham

SEL 38 9.6% 501.4

Royal Grammar School, Buckinghamshire SEL 52 9.6% 439.6

Adams'GrammarSchool SEL 35 9.6% 465.2

Sutton Grammar School For Boys SEL 31 9.5% 483.0

AylesburyGrammarSchool SEL 46 9.1% 456.3

HillsRoadSixthFormCollege SFC 204 8.6% 471.6

Lancaster Royal Grammar School SEL 35 8.5% 508.5

Nonsuch High School For Girls SEL 37 8.4% 499.5

Lady Margaret School COMP 15 8.3% 407.6

Simon Langton School For Boys SEL 29 8.2% 440.1

Sturminster Newton High School COMP 6 8.1% 410.8

Dr Challoner's High School SEL 33 8.0% 440.0

King Edward VI School, Warwickshire SEL 16 7.7% 516.6

Wolverhampton Girls' High School SEL 23 7.6% 501.3

TorquayBoysGrammarSchool SEL 32 7.5% 501.9

Poole Grammar School SEL 29 7.5% 510.0

Huntingdonshire Regional College GFE 4 7.4% 0.0

The Judd School, Tonbridge SEL 31 7.4% 462.4

Kingussie High School COMP 3 7.3% 503.5

Camden School For Girls COMP 36 7.2% 397.0

WestcliffHighSchoolForBoys,WestCliff SEL 23 6.9% 487.9

Tonbridge Grammar School SEL 29 6.8% 471.8

ColstonsGirlsSchoolAcademy AC 5 6.8% 378.1

Ermysted's Grammar, Skipton SEL 16 6.7% 522.7

WatfordGrammarSchoolForGirls COMP 34 6.7% 417.3

The Cherwell School COMP 35 6.7% 448.4

Durham Johnston Comprehensive School COMP 23 6.6% 419.1

DameAliceOwen'sSchool COMP 38 6.5% 407.1

Tunbridge Wells Girls' Grammar School SEL 20 6.3% 422.0

The Becket School COMP 18 6.3% 478.7

Larkmead School COMP 4 6.3% 452.7

Colchester County High School For Girls SEL 21 6.3% 497.7

King Edward VI Five Ways School SEL 30 6.2% 497.1

Southend High School For Boys SEL 20 6.2% 492.5

Wycombe High School, High Wycombe SEL 32 6.1% 427.7

HockerillAnglo-EuropeanCollege COMP 8 6.0% 517.9

TheBelvedereAcademy AC 8 5.9% 475.6

King Edward VI Camp Hill School For Boys SEL 18 5.8% 580.1

Skinners School SEL 17 5.8% 391.6

Methodist College SEL 41 5.7% 403.9

Bournemouth School, Bournemouth SEL 23 5.7% 425.9

WestcliffHighSchoolForGirls,WestcliffOn

Sea

SEL 20 5.6% 455.3

The London Oratory School COMP 27 5.5% 400.3

Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School COMP 24 5.5% 398.3

WoodfordCountyHighSchool,Woodford

Green

SEL 20 5.5% 409.8

Sullivan Upper School SEL 23 5.5% 410.7

Skipton Girls' High School SEL 14 5.5% 486.8

AlfretonGrangeArtsCollege,Formerly

Mortimer Wilson Secondary School

COMP 2 5.4% 400.0

Devonport High School For Boys SEL 18 5.4% 488.8

Marling School SEL 15 5.3% 419.6

BeechenCliffSchool COMP 12 5.2% 444.5

Dunraven School, London COMP 11 5.2% 385.5

St Bernard's Catholic Grammar School SEL 17 5.2% 463.5

Bury St Edmunds County Upper School COMP 11 5.1% 393.4

Gordon's School COMP 8 5.1% 382.6

Easthampstead Park School COMP 5 5.1% 386.6

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Table10-Top100StateSchoolsintheUK

ProportionofHEApplicantsAcceptedatOxbridge

Table11-Top100ComprehensiveSchoolsintheUK

ProportionofHEApplicantsAcceptedatOxbridge

Appendix 2 - School Rankings Appendix 2 - School Rankings

KingEdwardVIAston SEL 16 5.0% 479.0

KingAlfredsCommunityAndSportsCollege COMP 15 5.0% 450.8

King Edward VI Camphill School For Girls SEL 18 5.0% 531.3

QueenElizabeth'sGrammarSchool,Lincs SEL 14 4.9% 499.1

Madras College COMP 14 4.8% 510.1

South Wilts Grammar School SEL 20 4.8% 459.6

Redland High School For Girls Sixth

form

centre

7 4.8% 410.2

Sir William Borlase's Grammar School SEL 23 4.8% 458.1

AltrinchamGirlsGrammarSchool SEL 21 4.8% 502.0

Parkstone Grammar School SEL 21 4.7% 482.2

WatfordGrammarSchoolForBoys COMP 23 4.7% 430.8

Parmiter's School COMP 19 4.6% 405.3

TorquayGrammarSchoolForGirls SEL 15 4.6% 395.8

Tytherington High School COMP 9 4.6% 381.1

Wallington High School For Girls SEL 24 4.6% 434.1

TheHenryBoxSchool COMP 12 4.6% 400.8

The Holy Trinity School COMP 12 4.6% 440.4

Newport Girls' High School SEL 6 4.5% 480.3

The Grey Coat Hospital COMP 14 4.5% 383.5

Cheney School COMP 11 4.4% 378.8

St Mary's Rc Comprehensive, Ilkley COMP 13 4.4% 483.4

High Storrs School COMP 18 4.4% 397.2

Bourne Grammar School SEL 14 4.3% 474.6

Silverdale School COMP 18 4.3% 417.4

IlfordCountyHighSchool,Ilford SEL 16 4.3% 435.5

Wallington County Grammar School SEL 17 4.3% 517.8

School Name Total

Oxbridge

acceptances

over the

three years

% of HE

applicants

accepted

Oxbridge

Exam points

per student

accepted

into highly

selective

universities

Lady Margaret School 15 8.3% 407.6

Sturminster Newton High School 6 8.1% 410.8

Kingussie High School 3 7.3% 503.5

Camden School For Girls 36 7.2% 397.0

WatfordGrammarSchoolForGirls 34 6.7% 417.3

The Cherwell School 35 6.7% 448.4

Durham Johnston Comprehensive School 23 6.6% 419.1

DameAliceOwen'sSchool 38 6.5% 407.1

The Becket School 18 6.3% 478.7

Larkmead School 4 6.3% 452.7

HockerillAnglo-EuropeanCollege 8 6.0% 517.9

The London Oratory School 27 5.5% 400.3

Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School 24 5.5% 398.3

AlfretonGrangeArtsCollege,FormerlyMortimerWilson

Secondary School

2 5.4% 400.0

BeechenCliffSchool 12 5.2% 444.5

Dunraven School, London 11 5.2% 385.5

Bury St Edmunds County Upper School 11 5.1% 393.4

Gordon's School 8 5.1% 382.6

Easthampstead Park School 5 5.1% 386.6

KingAlfredsCommunityAndSportsCollege 15 5.0% 450.8

Madras College 14 4.8% 510.1

WatfordGrammarSchoolForBoys 23 4.7% 430.8

Parmiter's School 19 4.6% 405.3

Tytherington High School 9 4.6% 381.1

TheHenryBoxSchool 12 4.6% 400.8

The Holy Trinity School 12 4.6% 440.4

The Grey Coat Hospital 14 4.5% 383.5

Cheney School 11 4.4% 378.8

St Mary's Rc Comprehensive, Ilkley 13 4.4% 483.4

High Storrs School 18 4.4% 397.2

Silverdale School 18 4.3% 417.4

Wood Green School, Witney 11 4.2% 386.3

RadyrComprehensiveSchool,Cardiff 14 4.1% 399.3

Lawnswood School 8 4.0% 391.3

Ullapool High School, Ullapool 2 4.0% 467.1

Ecclesbourne School 18 4.0% 442.6

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Table11-Top100ComprehensiveSchoolsintheUK

ProportionofHEApplicantsAcceptedatOxbridge

Table11-Top100ComprehensiveSchoolsintheUK

ProportionofHEApplicantsAcceptedatOxbridge

Appendix 2 - School Rankings Appendix 2 - School Rankings

Coloma Convent Girls School 14 3.9% 397.4

Holt School, Wokingham 11 3.9% 379.9

SaffronWaldenCountyHighSchool 19 3.9% 417.5

GeorgeAbbotSchool 17 3.8% 454.2

The Coleshill School 4 3.8% 404.0

Eirias High School 12 3.8% 535.3

BanchoryAcademy 9 3.8% 488.8

RichardHaleSchool,Hertford 9 3.8% 459.4

Hardenhuish School 9 3.6% 424.4

Lady Hawkins School, Kington 2 3.6% 472.6

FulfordSchool 14 3.6% 366.0

Emmanuel College, Gateshead 12 3.6% 357.4

Charters School 14 3.6% 429.2

StAidans&StJohnFisherAssociatedSixthForm,

Harrogate

27 3.6% 470.6

CastleSchoolSixthForm 12 3.6% 446.2

Claydon High School 4 3.5% 362.0

Elliott School 6 3.5% 372.8

Swanshurst School 8 3.5% 352.2

Caerleon Comprehensive School 13 3.5% 393.1

RalphAllenSchool 7 3.5% 389.0

Park House School, Newbury 8 3.5% 426.4

St Bartholomews School 13 3.4% 456.5

Kennet School 10 3.4% 490.9

Mill Hill County High School 21 3.4% 390.7

Stanwell School 13 3.4% 476.9

Graveney School 26 3.4% 408.3

Lochgilphead High School, Lochgilphead 2 3.4% 483.5

AllHallowsSchool,Cheshire 7 3.4% 465.7

The Blue School 8 3.3% 444.4

KingsOfWessexUpperSchool 11 3.3% 392.1

StJohn'sSchool&CommunityCollege 8 3.3% 427.2

Chipping Norton School, Chipping Norton 7 3.3% 391.6

BenjaminBrittenHighSchool,Lowestoft 3 3.3% 396.7

The Nelson Thomlinson School 8 3.3% 489.0

St Marys Catholic School, Bishops Stor 6 3.3% 373.7

Ysgol Dewi Saint 3 3.3% 450.7

St Gregory's Science College 4 3.3% 401.1

Guilsborough School 8 3.3% 406.1

St Laurence School 7 3.2% 376.0

The King's School, Peterborough 15 3.2% 476.5

St Cuthbert's High School, Newcastle 6 3.2% 393.0

BishopStopfordSchool,Kettering 15 3.2% 392.4

St Georges School, Harpenden 13 3.2% 391.9

EgglescliffeSchool 11 3.2% 427.5

Northampton School For Boys 16 3.2% 485.8

LoretoCollege,StAlbans 7 3.2% 454.2

Cardinal Newman School, Hove 10 3.2% 411.7

YsgolTryfan 3 3.2% 424.1

Backwell School, Bristol 11 3.2% 408.2

Prince William School 9 3.2% 403.7

South Wolds Community School 6 3.2% 392.7

John Kyrle High School 7 3.2% 384.8

GuildfordCountySchool 5 3.2% 424.4

Welshpool High School 5 3.2% 389.8

Davenant Foundation School 12 3.2% 416.9

WestBridgfordSchool 10 3.1% 467.5

Lakes School, Windermere 4 3.1% 425.4

Llanidloes High School 4 3.1% 408.7

Richmond School 12 3.1% 363.6

Lymm High School 15 3.1% 419.0

TheAshcombeSchool 10 3.1% 467.6

StMary'sRCHigh,Chestereld 11 3.1% 464.6

St Philip Howard High School 4 3.1% 393.7

Chew Valley School 6 3.0% 387.0

Education authority Average number of pupils completing

sixth form study each year

% of students

accepted

CityofLondon 0

Hammersmith and Fulham 237 86.4%

Ealing 796 81.7%

Redbridge 1979 80.9%

Merton 247 80.7%

Barnet 2563 78.9%

Reading 387 78.7%

Brent 1266 78.7%

Wandsworth 1228 77.1%

Trafford 1347 77.0%

Hounslow 1374 76.7%

Eneld 1559 76.4%

Sutton 1575 76.0%

Kensington and Chelsea 532 75.8%

Waltham Forest 1696 75.8%

Poole 672 75.6%

Stockton-on-Tees 623 75.2%

Richmond upon Thames 1354 75.1%

Manchester 1675 74.7%

Camden 952 74.6%

Birmingham 3803 74.5%

Buckinghamshire 3481 74.5%

Lewisham 1193 74.0%

Luton 1100 74.0%

Wokingham 747 73.4%

Islington 1374 73.4%

Newcastle upon Tyne 1769 72.3%

Slough 965 72.2%

Milton Keynes 1165 72.1%

Bexley 1276 71.4%

Kirklees 2646 71.3%

Hertfordshire 7271 71.2%

Liverpool 2312 70.4%

Oldham 1616 70.2%

Bedford 1018 69.9%

Blackpool 1104 69.9%

Kingston upon Thames 1617 69.8%

Calderdale 977 69.6%

Cheshire West and Chester 2287 69.5%

Leicester 2078 69.4%

EastRidingofYorkshire 1557 69.1%

Hillingdon 1616 69.1%

Bury 1785 69.1%

Derbyshire 3237 69.0%

Bolton 1198 68.9%

Newham 1307 68.7%

CentralBedfordshire 1201 68.7%

Blackburn with Darwen 1244 68.4%

Wirral 2168 68.3%

Leeds 2907 68.2%

Bradford 2385 68.0%

Westminster 1194 67.8%

Haringey 534 67.7%

Windsor and Maidenhead 755 67.5%

Sefton 2112 67.5%

Darlington 1113 67.1%

Wigan 2052 66.8%

St. Helens 1418 66.8%

Shefeld 2522 66.8%

North Tyneside 922 66.4%

Derby 1189 66.2%

Sunderland 1229 66.2%

Sandwell 327 66.1%

Leicestershire 3876 66.1%

Warwickshire 3646 65.9%

Coventry 1570 65.7%

Harrow 1396 65.5%

Southwark 290 65.2%

Lancashire 6374 65.0%

Tower Hamlets 921 64.8%

Doncaster 1372 64.8%

Dudley 2747 64.7%

Cumbria 2616 64.7%

Barking and Dagenham 802 64.7%

Bromley 2408 64.6%

Cambridgeshire 3317 64.4%

Wiltshire 2203 64.4%

West Berkshire 996 64.4%

Wolverhampton 1318 64.2%

Lambeth 369 64.2%

Warrington 1268 64.0%

Redcar and Cleveland 837 64.0%

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Table12-ProportionofStateSchoolPupilsGoinginto

HigherEducationbyLocalAuthority

Table12-ProportionofStateSchoolPupilsGoinginto

HigherEducationbyLocalAuthority

Appendix 2 - School Rankings Appendix 2 - School Rankings

Cheshire East 2411 64.0%

Havering 1716 63.9%

Northumberland 1640 63.6%

Shropshire 1690 63.4%

Herefordshire 1178 63.3%

Solihull 1904 63.2%

Hackney 535 63.2%

Kent 8153 63.0%

Oxfordshire 3726 62.5%

Essex 7616 62.3%

Nottinghamshire 3378 62.2%

Croydon 1704 62.2%

Staffordshire 4762 62.0%

Lincolnshire 3969 61.9%

Gloucestershire 4273 61.6%

Rotherham 1744 61.5%

Suffolk 3569 61.4%

Walsall 1494 61.3%

Worcestershire 2938 61.1%

North Somerset 1093 61.0%

Surrey 6993 61.0%

Middlesbrough 797 60.8%

KingstonUponHull,Cityof 1359 60.7%

Stoke-on-Trent 1124 60.5%

North Yorkshire 4116 60.3%

Bracknell Forest 455 60.3%

TelfordandWrekin 1097 60.2%

Northamptonshire 3875 60.0%

Wakeeld 1654 59.8%

Gateshead 1027 59.8%

Hampshire 10657 59.7%

South Tyneside 525 59.7%

Nottingham 1829 59.6%

Plymouth 1593 59.4%

Devon 3585 59.0%

Durham 2213 58.9%

Somerset 3326 58.9%

Brighton and Hove 1702 58.9%

Southend-on-Sea 1691 58.5%

Hartlepool 622 58.2%

South Gloucestershire 1322 58.1%

Bath and North East Somerset 1133 58.1%

York 1538 58.0%

Cornwall 3067 58.0%

North Lincolnshire 1199 57.8%

Medway 1734 57.8%

IsleofWight 626 57.8%

Greenwich 813 56.8%

Peterborough 994 56.2%

Barnsley 924 55.7%

Dorset 2130 55.6%

Norfolk 4436 55.2%

Swindon 993 54.3%

WestSussex 4328 53.9%

Bournemouth 1062 53.3%

Tameside 1136 52.9%

North East Lincolnshire 961 52.5%

Torbay 941 52.4%

EastSussex 2752 51.9%

Bristol,Cityof 1555 51.6%

Halton 464 50.3%

Rochdale 731 49.8%

Thurrock 955 49.4%

Knowsley 367 48.4%

Southampton 984 45.7%

Stockport 2935 45.3%

Portsmouth 374 40.2%

Rutland 0

Salford 0

Total Sum - DfE Total N (number at end of

A/AS or equivalent study)

286347 64.2%

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Table12-ProportionofStateSchoolPupilsGoinginto

HigherEducationbyLocalAuthority

Table12-ProportionofStateSchoolPupilsGoinginto

HigherEducationbyLocalAuthority

Appendix 2 - School Rankings Appendix 2 - School Rankings

Education authority Average number of

pupils completing sixth

form study each year

% of pupils accepted at

selective universities

CityofLondon 0

Hammersmith and Fulham 237 58.5%

Reading 387 52.6%

Buckinghamshire 3481 36.3%

Trafford 1347 36.3%

Sutton 1575 35.7%

Poole 672 34.3%

Barnet 2563 29.9%

Merton 247 29.1%

Wokingham 747 27.7%

Kensington and Chelsea 532 26.4%

Birmingham 3803 26.0%

Manchester 1675 25.6%

West Berkshire 996 25.2%

Slough 965 25.0%

Ealing 796 25.0%

Wirral 2168 24.5%

Hertfordshire 7271 23.7%

Wiltshire 2203 23.6%

Torbay 941 23.4%

Kingston upon Thames 1617 23.3%

Cambridgeshire 3317 23.3%

Cheshire West and Chester 2287 23.1%

North Yorkshire 4116 23.1%

Camden 952 23.0%

Redbridge 1979 22.7%

Leeds 2907 22.7%

Brent 1266 22.4%

Wigan 2052 22.3%

Eneld 1559 22.1%

Gloucestershire 4273 21.7%

Herefordshire 1178 21.6%

Stockton-on-Tees 623 21.6%

Cumbria 2616 21.4%

Bromley 2408 21.4%

Lancashire 6374 21.3%

Derbyshire 3237 21.2%

Bexley 1276 21.1%

Kirklees 2646 21.0%

Windsor and Maidenhead 755 20.8%

Oxfordshire 3726 20.2%

Cheshire East 2411 20.2%

Shefeld 2522 20.1%

Liverpool 2312 19.9%

Hounslow 1374 19.8%

Surrey 6993 19.6%

Kent 8153 19.6%

Hampshire 10657 19.5%

Bury 1785 19.3%

Leicestershire 3876 19.2%

Lincolnshire 3969 19.2%

Shropshire 1690 19.2%

Warwickshire 3646 19.0%

Northumberland 1640 18.8%

Sefton 2112 18.8%

North Somerset 1093 18.4%

Calderdale 977 18.3%

TelfordandWrekin 1097 18.2%

Bracknell Forest 455 18.2%

Bath and North East Somerset 1133 18.1%

York 1538 17.9%

Somerset 3326 17.6%

North Tyneside 922 17.5%

St. Helens 1418 17.4%

Brighton and Hove 1702 17.3%

Dorset 2130 17.2%

Nottinghamshire 3378 17.2%

Warrington 1268 17.0%

CentralBedfordshire 1201 17.0%

Oldham 1616 16.8%

Wandsworth 1228 16.8%

Devon 3585 16.7%

Bolton 1198 16.7%

Bedford 1018 16.5%

Worcestershire 2938 16.2%

Haringey 534 16.2%

Bournemouth 1062 16.0%

Derby 1189 16.0%

Southend-on-Sea 1691 16.0%

Solihull 1904 16.0%

Milton Keynes 1165 15.6%

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Table13-ProportionofStateSchoolPupilsGoinginto

HighlySelectiveUniversitesbyLocalAuthority

Table13-ProportionofStateSchoolPupilsGoinginto

HighlySelectiveUniversitesbyLocalAuthority

Appendix 2 - School Rankings Appendix 2 - School Rankings

Nottingham 1829 15.5%

Essex 7616 15.4%

EastRidingofYorkshire 1557 15.4%

Swindon 993 15.4%

Darlington 1113 15.4%

Dudley 2747 15.3%

WestSussex 4328 15.0%

Redcar and Cleveland 837 15.0%

Gateshead 1027 14.8%

Richmond upon Thames 1354 14.6%

Peterborough 994 14.6%

North Lincolnshire 1199 14.5%

Leicester 2078 14.5%

Durham 2213 14.3%

Suffolk 3569 14.3%

Harrow 1396 14.2%

Doncaster 1372 14.2%

Bristol,Cityof 1555 14.1%

Rotherham 1744 14.1%

Lewisham 1193 13.9%

Hillingdon 1616 13.8%

Northamptonshire 3875 13.7%

Walsall 1494 13.6%

Havering 1716 13.5%

Blackpool 1104 13.5%

Coventry 1570 13.3%

South Gloucestershire 1322 13.3%

Wakeeld 1654 13.2%

Newcastle upon Tyne 1769 12.9%

Bradford 2385 12.9%

Tameside 1136 12.6%

Blackburn with Darwen 1244 12.5%

Cornwall 3067 12.5%

Staffordshire 4762 12.0%

Stockport 2935 12.0%

Hartlepool 622 11.8%

Norfolk 4436 11.8%

Medway 1734 11.7%

Plymouth 1593 11.6%

IsleofWight 626 11.6%

South Tyneside 525 11.5%

Stoke-on-Trent 1124 11.5%

Wolverhampton 1318 11.2%

EastSussex 2752 11.0%

Southampton 984 10.5%

Lambeth 369 10.5%

Sunderland 1229 10.0%

Westminster 1194 9.4%

Luton 1100 9.4%

North East Lincolnshire 961 9.4%

Croydon 1704 9.2%

Barnsley 924 8.8%

Middlesbrough 797 8.4%

Southwark 290 7.6%

Greenwich 813 7.4%

Waltham Forest 1696 7.0%

KingstonUponHull,Cityof 1359 6.6%

Sandwell 327 6.1%

Islington 1374 5.8%

Newham 1307 5.7%

Thurrock 955 5.7%

Barking and Dagenham 802 5.3%

Rochdale 731 5.1%

Hackney 535 5.0%

Halton 464 4.7%

Portsmouth 374 4.5%

Tower Hamlets 921 4.4%

Knowsley 367 3.6%

Rutland 0

Salford 0

TotalSum-DfETotalN(numberatend

ofA/ASorequivalentstudy)

286347 17.8%

46DegreesofSuccess DegreesofSuccess47

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HighlySelectiveUniversitesbyLocalAuthority

Table13-ProportionofStateSchoolPupilsGoinginto

HighlySelectiveUniversitesbyLocalAuthority

Appendix 2 - School Rankings Appendix 2 - School Rankings

Education authority Average number of pupils

completing sixth form study

each year

% of students accepted at

Oxbridge

CityofLondon 0

Reading 387 9.4%

Hammersmith and Fulham 237 5.9%

Sutton 1575 3.3%

Buckinghamshire 3481 3.2%

Poole 672 2.8%

Barnet 2563 2.7%

Kingston upon Thames 1617 2.7%

Eneld 1559 2.5%

Cambridgeshire 3317 2.4%

Trafford 1347 2.1%

Camden 952 2.1%

Kensington and Chelsea 532 2.0%

Torbay 941 1.9%

Bromley 2408 1.8%

Wiltshire 2203 1.7%

TelfordandWrekin 1097 1.6%

West Berkshire 996 1.5%

Southend-on-Sea 1691 1.5%

Herefordshire 1178 1.5%

Gloucestershire 4273 1.4%

Brighton and Hove 1702 1.4%

Hertfordshire 7271 1.4%

Oxfordshire 3726 1.4%

Birmingham 3803 1.4%

North Yorkshire 4116 1.3%

Windsor and Maidenhead 755 1.3%

Brent 1266 1.2%

Kent 8153 1.2%

Wandsworth 1228 1.2%

Shefeld 2522 1.2%

Somerset 3326 1.2%

Essex 7616 1.2%

Manchester 1675 1.2%

Bath and North East Somerset 1133 1.2%

Lambeth 369 1.2%

Hampshire 10657 1.1%

Kirklees 2646 1.1%

Warwickshire 3646 1.1%

Cheshire East 2411 1.1%

Bedford 1018 1.0%

Slough 965 1.0%

Devon 3585 1.0%

Leeds 2907 1.0%

Ealing 796 1.0%

Bournemouth 1062 1.0%

Northumberland 1640 1.0%

Lincolnshire 3969 1.0%

Bracknell Forest 455 1.0%

Wokingham 747 0.9%

Wirral 2168 0.9%

Cumbria 2616 0.9%

Bexley 1276 0.9%

Stockton-on-Tees 623 0.9%

Cheshire West and Chester 2287 0.9%

Suffolk 3569 0.9%

WestSussex 4328 0.9%

Hounslow 1374 0.8%

Gateshead 1027 0.8%

Warrington 1268 0.8%

Swindon 993 0.8%

Plymouth 1593 0.8%

Wigan 2052 0.8%

Redbridge 1979 0.8%

York 1538 0.8%

Derbyshire 3237 0.8%

Haringey 534 0.8%

Newcastle upon Tyne 1769 0.8%

Westminster 1194 0.8%

Darlington 1113 0.8%

Surrey 6993 0.8%

Sefton 2112 0.8%

Lancashire 6374 0.7%

Shropshire 1690 0.7%

EastRidingofYorkshire 1557 0.7%

Medway 1734 0.7%

Nottinghamshire 3378 0.7%

Peterborough 994 0.7%

Dorset 2130 0.7%

CentralBedfordshire 1201 0.7%

Milton Keynes 1165 0.7%

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OxbridgeUniversitesbyLocalAuthority

Table14-ProportionofStateSchoolPupilsGoinginto

OxbridgeUniversitesbyLocalAuthority

Appendix 2 - School Rankings Appendix 2 - School Rankings

Wolverhampton 1318 0.7%

North Somerset 1093 0.7%

Leicestershire 3876 0.7%

Worcestershire 2938 0.7%

Doncaster 1372 0.7%

Durham 2213 0.6%

Dudley 2747 0.6%

South Gloucestershire 1322 0.6%

Liverpool 2312 0.6%

Richmond upon Thames 1354 0.6%

Lewisham 1193 0.6%

Northamptonshire 3875 0.6%

Nottingham 1829 0.6%

Hillingdon 1616 0.6%

IsleofWight 626 0.6%

Walsall 1494 0.6%

Norfolk 4436 0.6%

EastSussex 2752 0.6%

Merton 247 0.5%

Cornwall 3067 0.5%

Calderdale 977 0.5%

Staffordshire 4762 0.5%

Oldham 1616 0.5%

Bristol,Cityof 1555 0.5%

Solihull 1904 0.5%

Rotherham 1744 0.5%

Stockport 2935 0.5%

Harrow 1396 0.5%

South Tyneside 525 0.4%

Southampton 984 0.4%

Redcar and Cleveland 837 0.4%

Havering 1716 0.4%

Blackpool 1104 0.4%

Middlesbrough 797 0.4%

North Lincolnshire 1199 0.4%

Greenwich 813 0.4%

Derby 1189 0.4%

Bradford 2385 0.4%

Bolton 1198 0.4%

Stoke-on-Trent 1124 0.4%

North East Lincolnshire 961 0.4%

Croydon 1704 0.4%

Islington 1374 0.4%

Luton 1100 0.4%

North Tyneside 922 0.4%

Portsmouth 374 0.4%

St. Helens 1418 0.4%

Blackburn with Darwen 1244 0.3%

Southwark 290 0.3%

Coventry 1570 0.3%

Tameside 1136 0.3%

Wakeeld 1654 0.3%

Leicester 2078 0.3%

Bury 1785 0.3%

Waltham Forest 1696 0.3%

Barking and Dagenham 802 0.3%

Sunderland 1229 0.3%

KingstonUponHull,Cityof 1359 0.2%

Tower Hamlets 921 0.2%

Barnsley 924 0.2%

Hartlepool 622 0.2%

Newham 1307 0.2%

Thurrock 955 0.1%

Halton 464 0.1%

Hackney 535 0.1%

Rochdale 731 0.0%

Knowsley 367 0.0%

Sandwell 327 0.0%

Rutland 0

Salford 0

TotalSum-DfETotalN(numberatend

ofA/ASorequivalentstudy)

286347 1.0%

50DegreesofSuccess DegreesofSuccess51

Table14-ProportionofStateSchoolPupilsGoinginto

OxbridgeUniversitesbyLocalAuthority

Table14-ProportionofStateSchoolPupilsGoinginto

OxbridgeUniversitesbyLocalAuthority

Appendix 2 - School Rankings Appendix 2 - School Rankings