In the number one spot for a second year running is King’s Math School, a sixth form college in London’s Lambeth borough specialising in mathematics, and affiliated with the prestigious King’s College London university. While it is a free state school, students will need to sit a test, an interview, and do well on their GCSEs to get in. In the 2023/24 academic year, it had an exceptional A Level point score of 56.16 - giving it an average grade of A*-.In the number one spot for a second year running is King’s Math School, a sixth form college in London’s Lambeth borough specialising in mathematics, and affiliated with the prestigious King’s College London university. While it is a free state school, students will need to sit a test, an interview, and do well on their GCSEs to get in. In the 2023/24 academic year, it had an exceptional A Level point score of 56.16 - giving it an average grade of A*-.
In the number one spot for a second year running is King’s Math School, a sixth form college in London’s Lambeth borough specialising in mathematics, and affiliated with the prestigious King’s College London university. While it is a free state school, students will need to sit a test, an interview, and do well on their GCSEs to get in. In the 2023/24 academic year, it had an exceptional A Level point score of 56.16 - giving it an average grade of A*-. | Google

England's 21 top state sixth form schools and colleges for A Levels - as latest national results go live

Amber Allott
By Amber Allott

Education writer

Published 13th Feb 2025, 15:19 BST

Some high-achieving schools have shot up the rankings since last year đŸ“ˆ

A Levels are important, with the grades young people get on them opening doors in their life after school.

Now the schools whose sixth form students really shone in the last school year can be named. The government’s latest performance figures for state-funded schools after the 2024 summer exam season were a little delayed this time around, with secondary school performance data only going live until December. Primary school data came next, and on Thursday (February 13), performance data for sixth form schools and colleges has finally been released.

We’ve created a league table of the best-performing state-funded secondary schools and sixth form colleges across England based on this brand new results data. They have been ranked by their A Level performance point scores, a unique measurement derived from students’ A Level results that gives them a score out of 60. The overall ‘average grades’ their students achieved across their A Level entries have also been included.

For the most part, schools on the list also had an overall Ofsted rating of ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ before this measure was dropped last month, or if they’ve been inspected more recently, had at least ‘good’ grades across the board. This means that the quality of education provided, student behaviour and attitudes, school leadership and management, and student safeguarding all met or exceeded government standards last time the school had a full inspection. Any that did not meet this criteria have been specified.

Here were the 21 state schools that topped the performance charts last year:

Rounding out the top 21 is another specialist sixth form college for mathematics, this one in Preston, Lancashire, with ties to Lancaster University. This is a brand new school that only opened to its first cohort of students in 2022, and although it hasn’t been formally inspected by Ofsted, its initial monitoring visit was positive. In the 2023/24 academic year, it had an A Level point score of 47.5 - giving it an average grade of A-.

21. Lancaster University School of Mathematics

Rounding out the top 21 is another specialist sixth form college for mathematics, this one in Preston, Lancashire, with ties to Lancaster University. This is a brand new school that only opened to its first cohort of students in 2022, and although it hasn’t been formally inspected by Ofsted, its initial monitoring visit was positive. In the 2023/24 academic year, it had an A Level point score of 47.5 - giving it an average grade of A-. | Google

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