How consistent are the results?
Several years side by side show whether a recent result is a school’s habit or its exception.
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Who makes The Schools Record, and how
One year’s results make a thin account of a school. The Schools Record follows the published examination and university records of 19 academically selective independent schools, year after year where the documents allow, and reads them alongside accounts of each school’s education, its history and the ordinary run of its week. We show where a figure comes from before we say what we make of it, which is the order a sceptical reader would choose. Schools have no say in our conclusions, and payment for research access cannot change them.
What you’ll find here
You can follow a result back to the document that published it, and see the missing years as plainly as the rest. A blank means we have no figure there; it never means zero. Where two publications disagree, you can read both accounts, and both figures stay until a published rule settles the difference, much as a corrected figure keeps the earlier one visible beside it, with the reason.
An archive that wouldn’t let us in, or a search that came back empty, marks the edge of what we have been able to find, which may fall short of what the school has published.
We cover 19 schools, and covering a school neither recommends it nor ranks it. University pages gather what the schools’ publications say about particular destinations, though none of it can predict any one pupil’s chance of a place.
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Can these figures be compared?
With the same qualification and measure for each school, you can see which years line up and which don’t.
Compare schools →What does university entry mean here?
That depends on whether a school reports applications, offers, acceptances or places taken up, which are four different things.
Universities →Who’s responsible
Andre Kaljevic, founder and editor, answers for everything on the site. There’s no board or panel behind it. The editor is also legally responsible for it, and is the data controller for the little personal information it handles. The privacy notice says what that information is.
How the figures are assembled
Software extracts figures from documents and keeps each one with its source references. It calculates the comparisons, results summaries and statistical studies using the published rules in our method, which makes a calculation repeatable. It decides nothing about what a source means, and still less whether a school would suit a child, which is a question for the child’s family.
Where editorial judgement enters
Editorial work means returning to the original document, checking what a number counts and deciding what can fairly be said about it, which is often less than a headline would like. It means reading school accounts, histories and inspections as well, weighing other explanations and correcting mistakes. Profiles show the date of the latest check, and Questions gives the longer readings room to develop.
- A figure looks wrong
- corrections@theschoolsrecord.co.uk. We reply within 10 working days.
- Anything else, including privacy questions
- hello@theschoolsrecord.co.uk. We reply within 10 working days.
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Funding and independence
No school pays to appear here, and none pays to be left out or to change what we say. The site carries no advertising and no sponsorship, and the publisher meets its costs. The only income planned is from research access. Research access is open. Choose a personal or Professional licence to read the fuller studies and create briefings around your schools. Paying can’t change a published figure, a finding or a correction, and every study’s answer, figures and qualifications stay free to read. How research access works.
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Corrections policy
If a figure looks wrong, its record page has a “Report a problem with this figure” link, which fills in the figure’s details for you; you can also send a fuller report or write to corrections@theschoolsrecord.co.uk. We reply within 10 working days.
We check every report against the school’s own publication. If the figure is wrong, we correct it, keep the earlier figure visible beside the new one and list what changed, and why, on the corrections page. If it matches what the school published, we tell you so and explain why it stands. A change to a figure, however small, is never slipped in with a design update; it is always listed on its own.
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Schools’ right of reply
Every school named here can question any figure about it, or send a short note on how a figure should be read. A school can use the reply form, or write to corrections@theschoolsrecord.co.uk from a school email address, naming the page or record, which spares everyone a round of emails. We reply within 10 working days.
If we find an error, we correct it under the policy above. If we keep a figure, we explain why, consider publishing the school’s note beside it and tell the school what we decide. Until school verification opens on the For schools page, practical details such as entry points, fees and open days can go to hello@theschoolsrecord.co.uk.
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