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Top 1000 Schools 2008
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• Families are torn between spending a small fortune to live near the best state schools or paying private school fees
• Better academic performance may not always produce happy pupils (PDF)
Top 100: Interactive tables - -
Content
Overview and FT Top 1,000 rankings
The rankings of England’s top secondary schools are led by the usual suspects, says David Turner, but how do they do it?
Interactive tables
View the data for the top 100 schools and compare the best on different criteria
Extra tables and rankings
Including top grammar schools and top state non-grammar schools, an LEA ranking, full lists of the top risers and fallers and comparisons with the government rankings
How to read the tables
The FT’s school league tables are different from all the others, writes Simon Briscoe
Criteria for success: It’s about more than simply the learning
It takes more than exam results to make a good school, says Miranda Green
Interview ban riles religious colleges
Senior staff at oversubscribed religious comprehensives say the UK government ban on interviewing prospective parents may have made their school intakes more exclusive
Schools data lay bare geographical inequalities
England’s highest-achieving counties produce nearly three times as many children with high A-level grades compared with the worst performers
Girls boost A-level results after joining boys
Private schools for boys that take in girls at sixth form are rewarded by a sharp boost in the exam league tables
Mortgages or fees?: Location, location, education ...
Liz Lightfoot finds that parental choice can give families a costly dilemma
Oxbridge entrance: Hit rate is no flash in the pan
Early selection and mastery of the entry system are vital, says Lisa Freedman
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