Research edition · Comparison · Winchester · Wycombe Abbey
How do Winchester and Wycombe Abbey compare on Oxford offers / applications?
Comparison · Oxford offers / applications · 2016–2025. Edition of 13 Nov 2026.
The answer
Neither school has a consistent lead on Oxford offer rates. Winchester comes out higher when all the available years are compared, but Wycombe Abbey comes out higher over some shorter periods.
The figures
- Winchester
- Wycombe Abbey
Each school against the same scale and years.
A break in a line means a year has no comparable figure; nothing is estimated. The figures behind the chart are listed below.
| Year | Winchester (%) | Wycombe Abbey (%) | Gap (points) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 27.66 | 32.5 | −4.84 |
| 2017 | 39.34 | 33.33 | 6.01 |
| 2018 | 31.58 | 41.67 | −10.09 |
| 2019 | 36.54 | 32.43 | 4.11 |
| 2020 | 22 | 32.61 | −10.61 |
| 2021 | 25.49 | 16.67 | 8.82 |
| 2022 | 27.08 | 28.13 | −1.04 |
| 2023 | 51.06 | 33.33 | 17.73 |
| 2024 | 32.35 | 25 | 7.35 |
| 2025 | 31.43 | 41.18 | −9.75 |
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.
Read this with the answer
- 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. One of these choices of years changes which school is ahead.
- 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
Each record gives the full definition, the documents it came from and what we checked.
Winchester College · 2016 · Oxford apply-centre cycles · 2016
Checked against the original: accepted, applications and offers.
Wycombe Abbey · 2016 · Oxford apply-centre cycles · 2016
Checked against the original: accepted, applications and offers.
Winchester College · 2017 · Oxford apply-centre cycles · 2017
Checked against the original: accepted, applications and offers.
Wycombe Abbey · 2017 · Oxford apply-centre cycles · 2017
Checked against the original: accepted, applications and offers.
Winchester College · 2018 · Oxford apply-centre cycles · 2018
Checked against the original: accepted, applications and offers.
Wycombe Abbey · 2018 · Oxford apply-centre cycles · 2018
Checked against the original: accepted, applications and offers.
Winchester College · 2019 · Oxford apply-centre cycles · 2019
Checked against the original: accepted, applications and offers.
Wycombe Abbey · 2019 · Oxford apply-centre cycles · 2019
Checked against the original: accepted, applications and offers.
Winchester College · 2020 · Oxford apply-centre cycles · 2020
Checked against the original: accepted, applications and offers.
Wycombe Abbey · 2020 · Oxford apply-centre cycles · 2020
Checked against the original: accepted, applications and offers.
Winchester College · 2021 · Oxford apply-centre cycles · 2021
Checked against the original: accepted, applications and offers.
Wycombe Abbey · 2021 · Oxford apply-centre cycles · 2021
Checked against the original: accepted, applications and offers.
Winchester College · 2022 · Oxford apply-centre cycles · 2022
Checked against the original: accepted, applications and offers.
Wycombe Abbey · 2022 · Oxford apply-centre cycles · 2022
Checked against the original: accepted, applications and offers.
Winchester College · 2023 · Oxford apply-centre cycles · 2023
Checked against the original: accepted, applications and offers.
Wycombe Abbey · 2023 · Oxford apply-centre cycles · 2023
Checked against the original: accepted, applications and offers.
Winchester College · 2024 · Oxford apply-centre cycles · 2024
Checked against the original: accepted, applications and offers.
Wycombe Abbey · 2024 · Oxford entry cycle · published record · 2024 · Oxford entry cycle
Checked against the original: accepted, applications and offers.
Winchester College · 2025 · Oxford apply-centre cycles · 2025
Checked against the original: accepted, applications and offers.
Wycombe Abbey · 2025 · Oxford entry cycle · published record · 2025 · Oxford entry cycle
Checked against the original: accepted, applications and offers.