Research edition · Comparison · KCS Wimbledon · Winchester

How do KCS Wimbledon and Winchester compare on Oxford offers / applications?

Comparison · Oxford offers / applications · 2016–2025. Edition of 13 Nov 2026.

The answer

Winchester comes out a little higher than KCS Wimbledon on Oxford offer rates when the available years are compared. The same school comes out higher in most of the periods we checked.

Measure: Oxford offers divided by applications from the same applying school and named admissions round. Years: 2016–2025.

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The figures

2016–2025

Oxford offer rate · 2016–2025
  • KCS Wimbledon
  • Winchester
Oxford offers / applications, 2016–2025, on a scale of 0% to 60%. KCS Wimbledon: 10 years (2016–2025), latest 28.75% in 2025; circle marker, solid; Winchester: 10 years (2016–2025), latest 31.43% in 2025; square marker, long dashes. Each point links to its source record; the exact values are listed below the chart.KCS Wimbledon 2016: 40.82%KCS Wimbledon 2017: 37.65%KCS Wimbledon 2018: 31.91%KCS Wimbledon 2019: 29.17%KCS Wimbledon 2020: 24.36%KCS Wimbledon 2021: 20.73%KCS Wimbledon 2022: 28.17%KCS Wimbledon 2023: 31.34%KCS Wimbledon 2024: 25.33%KCS Wimbledon 2025: 28.75%Winchester 2016: 27.66%Winchester 2017: 39.34%Winchester 2018: 31.58%Winchester 2019: 36.54%Winchester 2020: 22%Winchester 2021: 25.49%Winchester 2022: 27.08%Winchester 2023: 51.06%Winchester 2024: 32.35%Winchester 2025: 31.43%

Each school against the same scale and years.

KCS Wimbledon
Oxford offers / applications, 2016–2025, on a scale of 0% to 60%. KCS Wimbledon: 10 years (2016–2025), latest 28.75% in 2025; circle marker, solid. Each point links to its source record; the exact values are listed below the chart.KCS Wimbledon 2016: 40.82%KCS Wimbledon 2017: 37.65%KCS Wimbledon 2018: 31.91%KCS Wimbledon 2019: 29.17%KCS Wimbledon 2020: 24.36%KCS Wimbledon 2021: 20.73%KCS Wimbledon 2022: 28.17%KCS Wimbledon 2023: 31.34%KCS Wimbledon 2024: 25.33%KCS Wimbledon 2025: 28.75%
Winchester
Oxford offers / applications, 2016–2025, on a scale of 0% to 60%. Winchester: 10 years (2016–2025), latest 31.43% in 2025; square marker, long dashes. Each point links to its source record; the exact values are listed below the chart.Winchester 2016: 27.66%Winchester 2017: 39.34%Winchester 2018: 31.58%Winchester 2019: 36.54%Winchester 2020: 22%Winchester 2021: 25.49%Winchester 2022: 27.08%Winchester 2023: 51.06%Winchester 2024: 32.35%Winchester 2025: 31.43%

A break in a line means a year has no comparable figure; nothing is estimated. The figures behind the chart are listed below.

Oxford offers / applications: KCS Wimbledon and Winchester, each year both can be compared. The gap is KCS Wimbledon minus Winchester, in percentage points.
YearKCS Wimbledon (%)Winchester (%)Gap (points)
201640.8227.6613.16
201737.6539.34−1.7
201831.9131.580.34
201929.1736.54−7.37
202024.36222.36
202120.7325.49−4.76
202228.1727.081.09
202331.3451.06−19.72
202425.3332.35−7.02
202528.7531.43−2.68

Figures to two decimal places at most. A figure known only within the school’s rounding is shown as a range, never as its lower end.

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  • The rate compares applications and offers in the same admissions round. A school’s count of leavers going to Oxford cannot take the place of either figure.
  • Published results describe different groups of pupils, chosen in different ways. They can’t show the effect of attending a school, or what one pupil would achieve.
  • Only the years both schools can be compared on are used: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. A missing or excluded year is not a zero result.
  • The period check compares all shared years, the latest three, the latest five and each year left out in turn, not every possible period. The same school is ahead in every one of these choices of years.
  • These figures carry the record’s existing source checks, which are kept apart from background links. This edition didn’t reopen every original publication.
  • Offers are divided by applications made from the same school. An offer is not an acceptance or a final destination. This edition uses Oxford years up to 2025 only, and only those whose applications and offers both have an exact source check.
  • Historical results: the latest shared year is 2025. They can’t show 2026 results.

20 of the 20 recorded figures behind this comparison have an exact source check for that field and year; 0 are recorded or calculated figures with their support set out in Record details. This is not a fresh check of every source.

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Where the figures come from

20 records

Each record gives the full definition, the documents it came from and what we checked.

  1. King’s College School, Wimbledon · 2016 · Oxford apply-centre cycles · 2016

    Checked against the original: accepted, applications and offers.

  2. Winchester College · 2016 · Oxford apply-centre cycles · 2016

    Checked against the original: accepted, applications and offers.

  3. King’s College School, Wimbledon · 2017 · Oxford apply-centre cycles · 2017

    Checked against the original: accepted, applications and offers.

  4. Winchester College · 2017 · Oxford apply-centre cycles · 2017

    Checked against the original: accepted, applications and offers.

  5. King’s College School, Wimbledon · 2018 · Oxford apply-centre cycles · 2018

    Checked against the original: accepted, applications and offers.

  6. Winchester College · 2018 · Oxford apply-centre cycles · 2018

    Checked against the original: accepted, applications and offers.

  7. King’s College School, Wimbledon · 2019 · Oxford apply-centre cycles · 2019

    Checked against the original: accepted, applications and offers.

  8. Winchester College · 2019 · Oxford apply-centre cycles · 2019

    Checked against the original: accepted, applications and offers.

  9. King’s College School, Wimbledon · 2020 · Oxford apply-centre cycles · 2020

    Checked against the original: accepted, applications and offers.

  10. Winchester College · 2020 · Oxford apply-centre cycles · 2020

    Checked against the original: accepted, applications and offers.

  11. King’s College School, Wimbledon · 2021 · Oxford apply-centre cycles · 2021

    Checked against the original: accepted, applications and offers.

  12. Winchester College · 2021 · Oxford apply-centre cycles · 2021

    Checked against the original: accepted, applications and offers.

  13. King’s College School, Wimbledon · 2022 · Oxford apply-centre cycles · 2022

    Checked against the original: accepted, applications and offers.

  14. Winchester College · 2022 · Oxford apply-centre cycles · 2022

    Checked against the original: accepted, applications and offers.

  15. King’s College School, Wimbledon · 2023 · Oxford apply-centre cycles · 2023

    Checked against the original: accepted, applications and offers.

  16. Winchester College · 2023 · Oxford apply-centre cycles · 2023

    Checked against the original: accepted, applications and offers.

  17. King’s College School, Wimbledon · 2024 · Oxford apply-centre cycles · 2024

    Checked against the original: accepted, applications and offers.

  18. Winchester College · 2024 · Oxford apply-centre cycles · 2024

    Checked against the original: accepted, applications and offers.

  19. King’s College School, Wimbledon · 2025 · Oxford apply-centre cycles · 2025

    Checked against the original: accepted, applications and offers.

  20. Winchester College · 2025 · Oxford apply-centre cycles · 2025

    Checked against the original: accepted, applications and offers.

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