Nottingham High School has been named the number one performing independent school in the East Midlands according to the annual Sunday Times Parent Power rankings.
Nottingham High achieved an exceptional A*-B A-Level percentage of 89.6 and a GCSE A*-A percentage of 72.9 to sit top of the independent secondary schools in the East Midlands.
The independent fee-paying school has also seen an improvement nationally.
After dropping from 76th to 175th last year the independent school has risen to 68th in the rankings this year.
Nottingham High School’s Headmaster Mr Kevin Fear said: “We are thriving at present and this result shows that we have made our move to co-education from a position of considerable strength.
“We are absolutely thrilled to have achieved such a positive result in the annual Sunday Times Parent Power Survey, our staff have worked incredibly hard to secure these outstanding exam results.
“For us to have gained such brilliant results at the same time as our move to co-education demonstrates we are the strongest school in the region.
“This strength goes beyond academic results though and our students also enjoy a superb programme of co-curricular activities and are supported by a very strong system of pastoral care.
“We are seeing incredibly strong interest from students wishing to join us next September and with our entrance assessments in January we look forward to recruiting our next generation of talented students.”
The top ten state secondary schools in East Midlands:
- Nottingham High School, Nottingham
- Leicester Grammar School, Great Glen
- Nottingham Girls’ High School, Nottingham
- Loughborough High School, Loughborough
- Repton School, Repton
- Leicester High School for Girls, Leicester
- Uppingham School, Uppingham
- Oakham School, Oakham
- Stamford High School, Stamford
- Loughborough Grammar School, Loughborough
In a good year for Nottingham, Nottingham Girls’ High School also entered the top 10 rankings at number three.
The independent school for girls has seen a national improvement too going from 127th to 95th thanks to an impressive A*-B A-Level percentage of 81.9 and a GCSE A*-A percentage of 74.2.
Nottingham has similarly enjoyed success in the East Midlands top 10 secondary state schools table with West Bridgford’s Becket School placing eighth in the region with an A*-B A-Level percentage of 67.3 and a GCSE percentage of 32.9.
Six of the seven schools above The Becket School in the regional rankings are selective grammar schools, meaning they picked their students based on academic ability, something The Becket School do not do.
The top ten state secondary schools in East Midlands:
- Kesteven and Grantham Girls’ School, Grantham
- Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, Alford
- Caistor Grammar School, Caistor
- Kesteven and Sleaford High School, Sleaford
- Bourne Grammer School, Bourne
- Queen Elizabeth’s Grammer School, Horcastle
- St Mary’s RC High School, Chesterfield
- The Becket School, Nottingham
- Spalding High School, Spalding
- King Edward VI Grammar School, Louth
The top performing schools in the East Midlands will be revealed in The Sunday Times Parent Power, published in The Sunday Times and online this Sunday (November 27).
Now in its 24th year of publication Parent Power is an authoritative survey of the country’s best schools.
The guide contains the top 2,000 state and independent schools ranked by their latest academic results.
Editor of The Sunday Times Schools Guide Alastair McCall said: “It is important that as part of the selection process for when you’re looking at schools for your children that you have a good idea of what the potential academic attainment of the children is at the end when they leave.
“A number of schools in the East Midlands have gone up, in the independent sector Nottingham High School has gone up the best part of a 110 places.
“In the state sector in Nottingham The Becket School has done really really well, all the schools above it in the East Midlands bar one are all selective grammar schools which means they’ve picked all of their children based on academic ability.”