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King Edward VI School, Stratford, retains its position as top state school in West Midlands according to The Sunday Times Parent Power Guide




There were non-festive reasons to celebrate at King Edward VI School this week as it was again named one of the best state schools in the country.

KES has retained its position as the top state school in the West Midlands according to rankings in The Sunday Times Parent Power Guide published this weekend, a position it has held since 2018. The school also moved up one place, to ninth, in the UK’s Top 10 Schools, having steadily risen from 93rd place in 2011.

Top 10 nationally... King Edward VI School students pictured this week in Shakespeare’s Schoolroom with headmaster Bennet Carr. Photo: Mark Williamson
Top 10 nationally... King Edward VI School students pictured this week in Shakespeare’s Schoolroom with headmaster Bennet Carr. Photo: Mark Williamson

Meanwhile Stratford Girls' Grammar School was ranked fifth best school in the West Midlands, and 30th in the country.

Parent Power, in its 31st edition, is widely acknowledged as the most authoritative annual survey of the country’s best schools. The rankings in the secondary school league tables are determined by the percentage of examination entries gaining A* to B grades at A Level this summer (which is given double weighting) and the percentage of entries returning A* and A grades, and those graded 9 to 7, at GCSE.

At King Edward VI School, 90% of A Level papers were graded A* to B and 85% of GCSE papers were graded 9 to 7, both record-breaking results for the school.

Headmaster Bennet Carr said “It’s obviously very gratifying for us to be ranked so highly again but any plaudits we receive are down to the collective hard work and dedication of our students. These were the first public examinations with normal grading since the pandemic and for them to achieve record results in these circumstances was quite remarkable. It is a tribute to both their hard work and dedication, as well as that of their teachers who have prepared and taught them so effectively. We should also not lose sight of the fact that a great deal of the holistic education we aim to provide cannot be measured by grades. I would therefore like to recognise the superb commitment our students and staff make to the wider life of the School. These activities are crucially important but are less easily accounted for in league tables.”



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