{"id":407330,"date":"2026-02-04T12:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T12:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/407330\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T12:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T12:29:09","slug":"englands-10-best-private-schools-according-to-2025s-a-level-and-gcse-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/407330\/","title":{"rendered":"England\u2019s 10 Best Private Schools, According to 2025\u2019s A-level and GCSE Results"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s more to school life than exam results. But they are probably easiest, most quantifiable way of judging whether a school is doing well or not. And when you\u2019re prepared to pay hundreds of thousands of pounds on sending your child to a private school, you want to be assured that they\u2019re in with a good chance of getting the best\u00a0grades possible.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve scanned\u00a0the\u00a0Top School Guide<\/a> to find out which private schools in England boasted the best exam results across both A-Levels and GCSEs in 2025. And London schools\u00a0came overwhelmingly on top.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Following\u00a0last summer\u2019s A-Level and GCSE exams, the title of the best school in England belongs to\u00a0St Paul\u2019s School\u00a0in Barnes, London. The all-boys establishment, which was founded in 1509,\u00a0 saw 93 percent of its A-Level entries achieve either A or A* and 97.9 percent of it\u2019s GSCE entries awarded top results of 9, 8 or 7. Its sister school,\u00a0St Paul\u2019s Girls\u2019 School, came in a very close second with 88.7 percent achieving the highest A-Level results and an impressive 99.5 percent attaining the GCSE equivalents.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The third best independent in the country based on 2025\u2019s exam scores is\u00a0King\u2019s College School in Wimbledon with 86.1 percent of students getting A* or A at A-Level and 98.26 percent getting 9, 8 or 7 at GCSE.\u00a0\u00a0Hot on its tail was Westminster School (a former stomping ground of people like Andrew Lloyd Webber, Helena Bonham Carter, Louis Theroux and Jacob Rees-Mogg). It had an A-Level A*\/A rate of 86 percent and a GCSE 9 to 7 rate of 97.38 percent.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Westminster
\nPhotograph: Mistervlad \/ Shutterstock.comWestminster School, London <\/p>\n

The only two non-London schools to make in into the top 10 were Brighton College, where 97.95 percent of A-Level entries were awarded A* or A and 84.37 earned the GCSE equivalent and Guildford High School in Surrey which saw A*\/A rates of 84.67 at A-Level and 96.41 at GCSE. Take a look at the full list of highest-achieving establishments below.\u00a0<\/p>\n

England\u2019s top 10 private schools for 2025, based on A-Level and GCSE results<\/p>\n


\nSt Paul\u2019s School, London\u00a0
\nSt Paul\u2019s Girls\u2019 School, London
\nKing\u2019s College School,\u00a0London\u00a0
\nWestminster School, London\u00a0
\nNorth London Collegiate School, London\u00a0
\nBrighton College, Brighton\u00a0
\nGuildford High School, Surrey\u00a0
\nGodolphin and Latymer, London
\nLatymer Upper School, London\u00a0
\nAlleyn\u2019s School, London\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Did you see that\u00a0this hugely underrated university officially has the best teaching quality in Britain for 2026<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Plus:\u00a0This \u2018exceptional\u2019 London school has been crowned the best in Britain for 2026<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Stay in the loop:\u00a0sign up to our\u00a0free Time Out UK newsletter<\/a>\u00a0for the latest UK news and the best stuff happening across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s more to school life than exam results. But they are probably easiest, most quantifiable way of judging…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1422,59,57,58,50,1423,1420,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-407330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-categories-things-to-do","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-greatbritain","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-news-city-life","14":"tag-things-to-do","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}