The top performing schools in the West Midlands are revealed in Parent Power, The Sunday Times Schools Guide 2022, available online on Friday 3rd December and as a supplement with The Sunday Times on Sunday 5th December.
The 29th edition of Parent Power identifies the highest-achieving schools in the UK, ranked by their examination results from 2017-19.
A fully searchable national database by school name, local authority, town and postcode, together with regional rankings are available to Times and Sunday Times subscribers at: thesundaytimes.co.uk/parentpower
As well as assessment of all academic results on a school-by-school basis, Parent Power enables parents to compare the performance of a given school with other schools in the same town, local authority or nationally. There are also live links to school websites and schools’ most recent inspection reports.
Parent Power is widely acknowledged as the most authoritative survey of the country’s highest-achieving schools.
The top 10 independent secondary schools in the West Midlands
|
Regional rank |
School name |
Town |
A-level A*-B (%) |
GCSE A*/A/9/8/7 (%) |
2022 national rank |
|
1 |
King Edward VI High School for Girls |
Birmingham |
92.1 |
94.6 |
19 |
|
2 |
Concord College |
Shrewsbury |
96.4 |
84.2 |
21 |
|
3 |
King Edward's School, Birmingham |
Birmingham |
92.7 |
86.6 |
33 |
|
4 |
Rugby School |
Rugby |
84.7 |
79.1 |
70 |
|
5 |
King's High School |
Warwick |
82.2 |
74.7 |
86 |
|
6 |
Warwick School |
Warwick |
78.5 |
74.5 |
103 |
|
7 |
Bablake and King Henry VIII School |
Coventry |
72.8 |
73.0 |
143 |
|
8 |
Shrewsbury School |
Shrewsbury |
76.4 |
65.1 |
145 |
|
9 |
King's Worcester |
Worcester |
72.7 |
69.4 |
153= |
|
10 |
Malvern St James Girls' School |
Great Malvern |
74.7 |
59.0 |
168 |
The top 10 state secondary schools in the West Midlands
|
Regional rank |
School name |
Town |
A-level A*-B (%) |
GCSE A*/A/9/8/7 (%) |
2022 national rank |
|
1 |
King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys |
Birmingham |
87.1 |
86.0 |
10 |
|
2 |
King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls |
Birmingham |
82.0 |
85.9 |
19 |
|
3 |
King Edward VI School, Stratford |
Stratford-upon-Avon |
85.7 |
77.4 |
22 |
|
4 |
Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls |
Sutton Coldfield |
80.6 |
75.6 |
30 |
|
5 |
Stratford Girls' Grammar School |
Stratford-upon-Avon |
76.6 |
81.6 |
32 |
|
6 |
Bishop Vesey's Grammar School |
Sutton Coldfield |
79.8 |
70.3 |
35 |
|
7 |
Wolverhampton Girls' High School |
Wolverhampton |
72.1 |
75.2 |
56 |
|
8 |
King Edward VI Five Ways School |
Birmingham |
71.8 |
72.2 |
63= |
|
9 |
Newport Girls' High School |
Newport |
65.3 |
81.3 |
67 |
|
10 |
Queen Mary's Grammar School |
Walsall |
68.1 |
72.1 |
76 |
The rankings in the secondary school league tables are determined by the average percentage of examination entries in the three years, 2017-19, gaining A* to B grades at A-level (which is given a double weighting) and the average percentage of entries returning 9-7 or A* and A grades at GCSE.
Only schools that published their results in those years or disclosed them to The Sunday Times have been included in this edition of The Sunday Times Schools Guide, which includes around 1,700 schools. Examination outcomes from 2020 and 2021 have not been used in determining this year’s Parent Power rankings.
Alastair McCall, editor of Parent Power, said: “The need for clarity about school examination performance has never been greater after two years of teacher assessed grades, during which for completely understandable reasons, the numbers of top grades increased dramatically.
“We felt it was important to go back to the last sets of moderated public examination outcomes from 2019, 2018 and 2017 to get the most accurate and current view of school academic achievement. By taking a three-year average, we mitigated against relatively poor performance in a one-off year.
“At a time when some schools are making hard to substantiate claims of academic prowess based on outcomes from 2021 and 2020, we believe these rankings – and all the additional information on offer in Parent Power – provide parents with a more reliable guide to academic achievement in schools today.”
The top 10 primary schools in the West Midlands
|
Regional rank |
School name |
Town |
Reading (Averaged scaled score) |
Grammar (Averaged scaled score) |
Maths (Averaged scaled score) |
Total |
2022 national rank |
|
1 |
St Anne's RC Primary School, Streetly |
Sutton Coldfield |
113.0 |
115.3 |
112.0 |
340.3 |
4 |
|
2 |
Four Oaks Primary School |
Sutton Coldfield |
110.3 |
113.0 |
111.3 |
334.7 |
35= |
|
3 |
Nelson Mandela School |
Birmingham |
110.0 |
111.7 |
112.0 |
333.7 |
58= |
|
4 |
St Anthony's RC Primary School |
Leamington Spa |
110.3 |
112.7 |
110.3 |
333.3 |
66= |
|
5 |
Southam Primary School |
Southam |
109.0 |
114.3 |
109.3 |
332.7 |
84= |
|
6 |
Berkswich C of E Primary School |
Stafford |
113.0 |
112.3 |
107.0 |
332.3 |
90= |
|
7 |
Boldmere Junior School |
Sutton Coldfield |
110.3 |
111.3 |
110.0 |
331.7 |
125= |
|
8 |
St Mary's RC Primary School |
Birmingham |
110.0 |
112.3 |
109.0 |
331.3 |
144= |
|
9= |
Moor Hall Primary School |
Sutton Coldfield |
110.0 |
111.7 |
109.3 |
331.0 |
163= |
|
9= |
Park Hall Junior Academy |
Walsall |
108.7 |
112.7 |
109.7 |
331.0 |
163= |
|
9= |
St Bartholomew's C of E Primary School, Penn |
Wolverhampton |
109.0 |
111.3 |
110.7 |
331.0 |
163= |
Primary school rankings are based on the average outcomes achieved by schools in Standard Assessment Tests (SATs) in the three years, 2017-19. We aggregated the scaled scores – where 100 indicates the standard which children are expected to achieve aged 11 – for reading; grammar, punctuation and spelling; and maths in each of the three years and ranked schools on the average aggregated score.