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The FT brings analysis of the increasingly available data to measure the performance of the country’s top schools
Focus on performance
The FT’s Good Schools Guide is designed to help parents pick the right school for their child. It does this by assessing individual schools’ exam performance. This page provides links to two major studies conducted by the FT each year – rankings of the nation’s top 1,000 schools and independent schools. The FT’s analysis of the data available about schools is unique in that it strips out, as much as possible, so-called ”soft” subjects to present an academic view of the schools.
Related articles cover subjects such as Oxbridge entry, the impact of birth date on school performance and alternative exam systems to the A level. This spring the FT will publish its annual report on England’s Top 1000 Schools, based on their A-Level performance.
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