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 200 towns
Most secondary schools
The 12 largest peer groups in England.
Counties
48 counties with 5+ scored secondary schools.
- Bedfordshire53
- Berkshire64
- Bristol6
- Buckinghamshire49
- Cambridgeshire46
- Cheshire95
- Cleveland8
- Cornwall33
- County Durham36
- Cumbria39
- Derbyshire57
- Devon67
- Dorset51
- East Sussex37
- East Yorkshire9
- Essex146
- Gloucestershire40
- Greater Manchester47
- Hampshire102
- Herefordshire17
- Hertfordshire86
- Isle of Wight7
- Kent153
- Lancashire160
- Leicestershire59
- Lincolnshire71
- Merseyside86
- Middlesex46
- Norfolk54
- North Lincolnshire5
- North Yorkshire52
- Northamptonshire37
- Northumberland24
- Nottinghamshire67
- Oxfordshire41
- Shropshire32
- Somerset55
- South Yorkshire73
- Staffordshire83
- Suffolk45
- Surrey102
- Tyne and Wear63
- Warwickshire36
- West Midlands208
- West Sussex37
- West Yorkshire133
- Wiltshire37
- Worcestershire42
Towns
200 towns with 5+ scored secondary schools.
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- Banbury6
- Barnet6
- Barnsley10
- Barrow-in-Furness5
- Basildon5
- Basingstoke8
- Bath6
- Beckenham5
- Bedford21
- Birmingham95
- Bishop Auckland5
- Bishop's Stortford5
- Blackburn11
- Blackpool8
- Bolton22
- Boston7
- Bournemouth12
- Bracknell5
- Bradford31
- Brentwood5
- Bridgwater6
- Brighton7
- Bristol46
- Bromley7
- Bromsgrove6
- Burnley6
- Burton-on-Trent7
- Bury9
- Bury St Edmunds5