Julie Robinson, chief executive of the ISC, has said the impact of Labour’s VAT on fees policy has been greater than ministers anticipated as ISC data reveals the number of children at independent schools has fallen by 30,000 since January 2025. Speaking to The Times, Ms Robinson said: “Behind these figures are families facing difficult […]
Six students from Kensington Wade School have taken their GCSE five years early and achieved exceptional results. The students, many of whom have no Chinese background, have taken their Mandarin GCSE in Year 6. Kensington Wade School in Hammersmith is an independent bilingual prep school that teaches in both Mandarin and English. The school reports
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North London Collegiate School claims the top spot based on % of top grades (8/9s) achieved. The highest ranked co-educational school is Latymer Upper School again, this time in #6 (#10 in 2025), followed by Highgate again, this time in #12 (last year #14). Further schools will be added and the rankings updated as results
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Today 13 August 2026 is A-Level Results Day and many London schools have shared record results. King’s Maths School tops the table again when results are ranked by % of grades at A*. As the % of A* awarded for STEM subjects is particularly high when compared to humanities and languages, the ranking is biased
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The Girls’ Day School Trust has announced that The Study Prep in Wimbledon is joining the Trust, making it the second prep school in the GDST alongside Kensington Prep School. The Study Prep has always been a major feeder for Wimbledon High School, sending between 10-20 girls per year to Wimbledon High and Putney High
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In a letter sent to parents at the end of June, Latymer Upper announced major changes to the curriculum reform it had initially planned for 2027. To be fair, many current parents were already aware that the school had never intended to abolish GCSEs completely, as had originally been reported in the press. Instead, the
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