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Best Secondary School in the West Midlands...

Camp Hill Boys was today named as the best state secondary school in the West Midlands in The Sunday Times Schools Guide 2022.

The top performing schools in the West Midlands are revealed in Parent Power, The Sunday Times Schools Guide 2022.

As well as assessment of all academic results on a school-by-school basis, Parent Power enables parents to compare the performance of a given school with other schools in the same town, local authority or nationally. There are also live links to school websites and schools’ most recent inspection reports.

The top 10 state secondary schools in the West Midlands

Regional rank

School name

Town

A-level A*-B (%)

GCSE A*/A/9/8/7 (%)

2022

national rank

1

King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys

Birmingham

87.1

86.0

10

2

King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls

Birmingham

82.0

85.9

19

3

King Edward VI School, Stratford

Stratford-upon-Avon

85.7

77.4

22

4

Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls

Sutton Coldfield

80.6

75.6

30

5

Stratford Girls' Grammar School

Stratford-upon-Avon

76.6

81.6

32

6

Bishop Vesey's Grammar School

Sutton Coldfield

79.8

70.3

35

7

Wolverhampton Girls' High School

Wolverhampton

72.1

75.2

56

8

King Edward VI Five Ways School

Birmingham

71.8

72.2

63=

9

Newport Girls' High School

Newport

65.3

81.3

67

10

Queen Mary's Grammar School

Walsall

68.1

72.1

76

The rankings in the secondary school league tables are determined by the average percentage of examination entries in the three years, 2017-19, gaining A* to B grades at A-level (which is given a double weighting) and the average percentage of entries returning 9-7 or A* and A grades at GCSE.

Only schools that published their results in those years or disclosed them to The Sunday Times have been included in this edition of The Sunday Times Schools Guide, which includes around 1,700 schools. Examination outcomes from 2020 and 2021 have not been used in determining this year’s Parent Power rankings.

Alastair McCall, editor of Parent Power, said:

 “The need for clarity about school examination performance has never been greater after two years of teacher assessed grades, during which for completely understandable reasons, the numbers of top grades increased dramatically.

“We felt it was important to go back to the last sets of moderated public examination outcomes from 2019, 2018 and 2017 to get the most accurate and current view of school academic achievement. By taking a three-year average, we mitigated against relatively poor performance in a one-off year.

“At a time when some schools are making hard to substantiate claims of academic prowess based on outcomes from 2021 and 2020, we believe these rankings – and all the additional information on offer in Parent Power – provide parents with a more reliable guide to academic achievement in schools today.”