The best secondary schools by area
Browse the top-rated secondary schools across England by town or county. Every list is ranked by our composite score across Ofsted, attainment, progress and engagement.
48 counties 184 towns
Most secondary schools
The 12 largest peer groups in England.
Counties
48 counties with 5+ scored secondary schools.
- Bedfordshire50
- Berkshire62
- Bristol6
- Buckinghamshire49
- Cambridgeshire43
- Cheshire91
- Cleveland7
- Cornwall31
- County Durham32
- Cumbria37
- Derbyshire55
- Devon64
- Dorset50
- East Sussex33
- East Yorkshire9
- Essex143
- Gloucestershire39
- Greater Manchester41
- Hampshire91
- Herefordshire15
- Hertfordshire83
- Isle of Wight7
- Kent150
- Lancashire147
- Leicestershire55
- Lincolnshire68
- Merseyside81
- Middlesex45
- Norfolk51
- North Lincolnshire5
- North Yorkshire49
- Northamptonshire37
- Northumberland24
- Nottinghamshire64
- Oxfordshire39
- Shropshire30
- Somerset51
- South Yorkshire66
- Staffordshire80
- Suffolk42
- Surrey94
- Tyne and Wear59
- Warwickshire34
- West Midlands198
- West Sussex36
- West Yorkshire121
- Wiltshire34
- Worcestershire41
Towns
184 towns with 5+ scored secondary schools.