Today 13 August 2026 is A-Level Results Day and many London schools have shared record results. King’s Maths School tops the table again when results are ranked by % of grades at A*. As the % of A* awarded for STEM subjects is particularly high when compared to humanities and languages, the ranking is biased towards specialist Maths schools (and schools with a high share of students choosing STEM subjects) somewhat. St Paul’s School in Barnes would be #1 if the ranking was based on the percentage of A-A*s.
Disregarding specialist Maths and Science schools, we still believe a ranking based on the percentage of A* grades is the most accurate, since only 9.6% of A-Levels are graded at A*, whereas 28.5% of grades are A-A*, so the A* is the best way to distinguish schools at the very top.
Below are the top 100 schools in London ranked by A-Level performance based on results so far. Welcome to new entrant Imperial Maths School which went straight to #2.
| Rank | School | % A* | % A*-A | Type | Gender |
| 1 | King’s Maths School | 72.0% | 90.0% | state | Co-ed |
| 2 | Imperial Maths School | 64.9% | 88.1% | state | Co-ed |
| 3 | Queen Elizabeth School, Barnet | 62.0% | 89.1% | state | Boys |
| 4 | St Paul’s School | 60.0% | 91.5% | private | Boys |
| 5 | St Paul’s Girls’ School | 58.1% | 88.6% | private | Girls |
| 6 | Westminster School | 58.0% | 88.0% | private | Co-ed |
| 7 | King’s College School Wimbledon | 56.0% | 88.0% | private | Co-ed |
| 8 | Highgate School | 51.0% | 86.5% | private | Co-ed |
| 9 | Habs Boys | 51.0% | 83.0% | private | Boys |
| 10 | Godolphin & Latymer School | 49.8% | 87.1% | private | Girls |
| 11 | North London Collegiate School | 49.5% | 81.3% | private | Girls |
| 12 | South Hampstead High School | 48.0% | 83.0% | private | Girls |
| 13 | Latymer Upper | 43.0% | 81.0% | private | Co-ed |
| 14 | Wilson’s School | 43.0% | 80.0% | state | Boys |
| 15 | City of London | 40.9% | 81.4% | private | Boys |
| 16 | City of London School for Girls | 81.0% | private | Girls | |
| 17 | Merchant Taylor’s School | 42.0% | 74.0% | private | Boys |
| 18 | Sutton Grammar School | 41.0% | 75.6% | state | Boys |
| 19 | Lady Eleanor Holles | 39.0% | 78.0% | private | Girls |
| 20 | Hampton School | 39.0% | 77.0% | private | Boys |
| 21 | JAGS | 38.0% | 75.0% | private | Girls |
| 22 | UCS, Hampstead | 37.0% | 78.0% | private | Co-ed |
| 23 | St Olave’s Grammar School | 37.0% | 74.0% | state | Boys |
| 24 | Habs Girls | 37.0% | 73.0% | private | Girls |
| 25 | Tiffin School | 37.0% | 71.0% | state | Boys |
| 26 | Tiffin Girls School | 36.2% | 70.8% | state | Girls |
| 27 | Alleyn’s, Dulwich | 36.0% | 77.0% | private | Co-ed |
| 28 | Bancroft’s | 34.3% | 73.0% | private | Co-ed |
| 29 | Henrietta Barnett School | 34.0% | 74.0% | state | Girls |
| 30 | Putney High School | 34.0% | 75.0% | private | Girls |
| 31 | Wimbledon High | 32.1% | 76.0% | private | Girls |
| 32 | Dulwich College | 30.0% | 68.0% | private | Boys |
| 33 | Surbiton High School | 29.0% | private | Girls | |
| 34 | St Dunstan’s College | 28.0% | 70.0% | private | Co-ed |
| 35 | Wallington County Grammar School | 27.0% | 67.0% | state | Boys |
| 36 | Colfe’s School | 24.0% | 67.0% | private | Co-ed |
| 37 | Eltham College | 30.1% | 65.0% | private | Co-ed |
| 38 | Trinity School, Croydon | 27.0% | 65.0% | private | Boys |
| 39 | Notting Hill & Ealing High | 22.0% | 64.0% | private | Girls |
| 40 | Kingston Grammar School | 24.0% | 63.0% | private | Co-Ed |
| 41 | Channing School | 22.3% | 62.4% | private | Girls |
| 42 | Whitgift School | 28.8% | 62.0% | private | Boys |
| 43 | Latymer School, Edmonton | 27.0% | 62.0% | state | Co-ed |
| 44 | Croydon High School | 23.0% | 62.0% | private | girls |
| 45 | Francis Holland NW1 | 21.0% | 62.0% | private | Girls |
| 46 | Harris Westminster Academy | 29.0% | 61.0% | state | Co-ed |
| 47 | Forest School | 24.0% | 58.4% | private | Co-ed |
| 48 | West London Free School | 27.0% | 58.0% | state | Co-ed |
| 49 | Francis Holland SW1 | 22.0% | 58.0% | private | Girls |
| 50 | Bromley High, GDST | 20.0% | 58.0% | private | Girls |
| 51 | Mossbourne Sixth Form | 25.0% | 57.0% | state | Co-ed |
| 52 | London Academy of Excellence | 21.0% | 57.0% | state | co-ed |
| 53 | Nonsuch High School, Sutton | 23.0% | 56.0% | state | Girls |
| 54 | St Michael’s Grammar | 20.0% | 56.0% | state | Girls |
| 55 | Mill Hill School | 22.0% | 54.0% | private | Co-ed |
| 56 | Queen’s College | 19.0% | 49.2% | private | Girls |
| 57 | Camden School for Girls | 21.0% | 48.0% | state | Co-ed |
| 58 | Sydenham High, GDST | 22.0% | 45.0% | private | Girls |
| 59 | Hampton Court House | 16.0% | 45.0% | private | Co-ed |
| 60 | King Alfred School | 30.0% | 43.0% | private | Co-ed |
| 61 | Grey Court School | 16.0% | 41.0% | state | Co-ed |
| 62 | Sutton High GDST | 16.0% | private | Girls | |
| 63 | Michaela Sixth Form | 68.0% | state | Co-ed | |
| 64 | Harrodian School | 67.0% | private | Co-ed | |
| 65 | St Helen’s, Northwood | 65.0% | private | Girls | |
| 66 | Ibstock Place | 61.0% | private | Co-ed | |
| 67 | Blackheath High, GDST | 60.0% | private | Girls | |
| 68 | Emanuel School | 59.0% | private | Co-ed | |
| 69 | Northwood College GDST | 58.0% | private | Girls | |
| 70 | JCoss | 56.0% | state | Co-ed | |
| 71 | St Benedict’s School, Ealing | 53.0% | private | Co-ed | |
| 72 | Newstead Wood School | 53.0% | state | Co-ed | |
| 73 | Woodhouse College | 52.3% | state | Co-ed | |
| 74 | JFS | 52.0% | state | Boys | |
| 75 | Ashcroft Technology Academy | 51.4% | state | Co-ed | |
| 76 | Kingsdale Foundation School | 50.0% | state | Co-ed | |
| 77 | Holland Park School | 50.0% | state | Co-ed | |
| 78 | Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School | 49.1% | state | Co-ed | |
| 79 | St Catherine’s School Twickenham | 49.0% | private | Girls | |
| 80 | Kneller Hall | 49.0% | private | Co-ed | |
| 81 | Royal Russell School | 48.0% | private | Co-ed | |
| 82 | St Augustine’s Priory | 48.0% | private | Girls | |
| 83 | Twyford Church of England School | 47.0% | state | Co-ed | |
| 84 | Chislehurst & Sidcup Grammar | 14.0% | 44.6% | state | Co-ed |
| 85 | The London Oratory School | 44.0% | state | Co-ed | |
| 86 | Avanti House School | 13.1% | 42.7% | state | Co-ed |
| 87 | Waldegrave School | 15.0% | 42.0% | state | Girls |
| 88 | St Marylebone CofE School | 14.0% | 42.0% | state | Co-ed |
| 89 | Streatham & Clapham High GDST | 42.0% | private | Girls | |
| 90 | Kingston Academy | 40.0% | state | Co-ed | |
| 91 | Alexandra Park School | 40.0% | state | Co-ed | |
| 92 | Fulham Boys’ School | 39.0% | state | Boys | |
| 93 | Turing House | 10.0% | 38.0% | state | Co-ed |
| 94 | Lady Margaret School | 38.0% | state | Girls | |
| 95 | ARK Bollingbroke Academy | 38.0% | state | Co-ed | |
| 96 | Greycoat Hospital School | 11.1% | 37.5% | state | Co-ed |
| 97 | Queen’s Gate | 15.0% | 35.0% | private | Girls |
| 98 | Pinner High School | 35.0% | state | Co-ed | |
| 99 | Orleans Park School | 35.0% | state | Co-ed | |
| 100 | Paddington Academy | 34.0% | state | Co-ed |
City girls definitely a state boys school…
oops, yes definitely, as the name says…
Wilson’s is a state school
absolutely, this was a typo, thanks for spotting it!
Imperial Maths School definitely State Funded…
Can you compare the A-level results of these schools specifically for Biology, Chemistry and Physics? For each school, I want to know what percentage of pupils/subject entries achieved an A* in each of these three subjects, rather than the school’s overall A* percentage across all A-level subjects. Then please rank the schools to show which has the highest A* rate in Biology, Chemistry and Physics individually, and, if possible, which is strongest overall across the three sciences.”
“Please use the actual subject-level results where available, because a school with a very high overall A* rate may not necessarily have the highest A* rate in the sciences.”
you will have to do that manually once full subject results are published by individual schools in November.
That said, sciences actually award a higher share of A-A* grades than humanities subjects, so these tables inherently favour schools with a higher share of STEM subjects (see the Maths schools on top).