Oxford and Cambridge · 2025 UCAS cycle

The published Oxbridge offers table

The Spectator’s 2026 Oxbridge files list 80 schools and colleges by offers received in the 2025 UCAS cycle. This wider table sits alongside our historical records for 19 independent schools.

These are the published combined Oxford and Cambridge figures. They count applications and offers through a school or college, not the share of its whole year group who took up a place.

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How to read this table

The publisher orders schools by offers, then by offers divided by applications. We retain that published order. It is not a ranking of teaching quality or a prediction of an individual pupil’s chances.

Some published numbers conceal small counts. Cambridge reports non-zero counts below five as 5, so a printed 5 represents between one and five. The combined offer figures for Godolphin and Latymer School, Radley College and Harrow School include such a value. We mark them with † and do not present their totals as exact counts. Other schools in this wider table have not all been checked for suppression.

We reproduce the published numbers without calculating offer rates. The source note explains how we checked the table and how it differs from our university records.

Look up any school’s own figures, year by year, from the universities’ own tables.

Published comparison

2026 edition · 2025 admissions cycle

All 80 schools and colleges

Oxford and Cambridge applications and offers, as reproduced from the published 2025-cycle table
Published rank	School or college	Published type	Applications	Published offers
1	Westminster School	Independent	166	80
2	Hills Road Sixth Form College (Cambridge)	Sixth-form college	287	73
3	Tiffin School (Kingston upon Thames)	Grammar	148	56
4	St Paul’s Girls’ School	Independent	99	54
5	Peter Symonds College (Winchester)	Sixth-form college	206	53
6	Eton College	Independent	166	52
7	St Paul’s School	Independent	148	51
8	Queen Elizabeth's School (Barnet)	Grammar	117	49
9	Woodhouse College (Finchley)	Sixth-form college	144	48
10	Harris Westminster Sixth Form (London)	Sixth-form college	156	48
11	Brampton Manor Academy (East Ham)	Sixth-form college	292	48
12	Brighton Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College (Brighton)	Sixth-form college	193	44
13	Colchester Royal Grammar School (Colchester)	Grammar	100	43
14	Brighton College	Independent	110	43
15	King’s College School, Wimbledon	Independent	145	40
16	Winchester College	Independent	115	39
17	King's College London Mathematics School (London)	Sixth-form college	68	38
18	Latymer Upper School	Independent	92	38
19	Wilson's School (Sutton)	Grammar	115	37
20	City of London School	Independent	92	35
21	The Latymer School (Edmonton)	Grammar	111	35
22	Colyton Grammar School (East Devon)	Grammar	62	34
23	The Henrietta Barnett School (Hampstead)	Grammar	92	34
24	Highgate School (London)	Independent	103	34
25	Newham Collegiate Sixth Form (London)	Sixth-form college	157	34
26	St Olave's Grammar School (Orpington)	Grammar	104	32
27	Pate's Grammar School (Cheltenham)	Grammar	126	32
28	The Judd School (Tonbridge)	Grammar	78	31
29	Loreto College (Manchester)	Sixth-form college	82	31
30	The Manchester Grammar School (Manchester)	Independent	87	31
31	Magdalen College School	Independent	98	31
32	The Sixth Form College (Farnborough)	Sixth-form college	111	31
33	The Camden School for Girls (London)	Comprehensive	67	27
34	North London Collegiate School	Independent	70	27
35	London Academy of Excellence Tottenham (London)	Sixth-form college	93	27
36	The Perse School (Cambridge)	Independent	126	27
37	King Edward VI Grammar School (Chelmsford)	Grammar	64	26
38	Dulwich College	Independent	79	26
39	Sevenoaks School (Sevenoaks)	Independent	107	26
40	Reading School (Reading)	Grammar	77	25
41	London Academy of Excellence (Stratford)	Sixth-form college	92	25
42	Alleyn's School (Dulwich)	Independent	70	24
43	Haberdashers' Boys School (Elstree)	Independent	82	24
44	Greenhead College (Huddersfield)	Sixth-form college	93	24
45	Xaverian College (Manchester)	Sixth-form college	64	23
46	Tonbridge School (Tonbridge)	Independent	76	23
47	Godalming College (Godalming)	Sixth-form college	97	23
48	Hereford Sixth Form College (Hereford)	Sixth-form college	50	22
49	King Edward VI School (Stratford-upon-Avon)	Grammar	83	22
50	Hampton School (London)	Independent	85	22
51	Barton Peveril College (Eastleigh)	Sixth-form college	114	22
52	City of London School for Girls (London)	Independent	59	21
53	Wycombe Abbey	Independent	65	21
54	James Allen's Girls' School (Dulwich)	Independent	47	20
55	Cheltenham Ladies' College (Cheltenham)	Independent	73	20
56	Guildford High School (Guildford)	Independent	39	19
57	The Cherwell School (Oxford)	Academy	67	19
58	Sir John Deane's College (Northwich)	Sixth-form college	81	19
59	The Tiffin Girls' School (Kingston upon Thames)	Grammar	84	19
60	Winstanley College (Wigan)	Sixth-form college	97	19
61	King Edward VI College (Stourbridge)	Sixth-form college	112	19
62	Godolphin and Latymer School	Independent	42	18†Includes a suppressed count
63	The College of Richard Collyer (Horsham)	Sixth-form college	68	18
64	Chelmsford County High School for Girls (Chelmsford)	Grammar	40	17
65	Radley College	Independent	52	17†Includes a suppressed count
66	King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls (Birmingham)	Grammar	57	17
67	Abingdon School (Abingdon)	Independent	61	17
68	Reigate College (Reigate)	Sixth-form college	65	17
69	Rugby School (Rugby)	Independent	39	16
70	Twyford Church of England High School (London)	Academy	49	16
71	Exeter College (Exeter)	FE College	60	16
72	Harrow School	Independent	67	16†Includes a suppressed count
73	Dr Challoner's Grammar School (Amersham)	Grammar	68	16
74	University College School (London)	Independent	73	16
75	King Edward VI High School for Girls (Birmingham)	Independent	21	15
76	Wimbledon High School GDST (London)	Independent	39	15
77	King Edward VI Five Ways School (Birmingham)	Grammar	40	15
78	The Blue Coat School (Liverpool)	Grammar	45	15
79	King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys (Birmingham)	Grammar	52	15
80	Dame Alice Owen's School (Potters Bar)	Partially selective	77	15

† Published arithmetic includes Cambridge’s suppressed value of 5; it is not necessarily the exact total. Linked school names open their historical records. School types follow the published table.

Sources and checks

The Spectator: The Oxbridge files 2026 identifies the universities’ 2025 UCAS Apply Centre tables as its sources. Its article states that the list contains 33 independent schools, 21 grammar or partially selective schools, 23 sixth-form or further-education colleges, and three comprehensives or academies.

We could read the article but could not retrieve its embedded table directly. We checked all 80 rows against the complete reproductions by Atom Learning and GLECTA: the ranks, school names, types, applications and offers agree. Both reproductions were checked on 15 October 2026. Agreement between reproductions is not independent verification against the universities’ originals.

This is an attributed secondary comparison. It does not replace the individually sourced Oxford and Cambridge records. We do not infer a university’s figures by subtracting the other university’s numbers from this table, and we keep offers separate from acceptances and destinations.

The edition is labelled 2026, but the original article names the 2025 UCAS cycle. That is the year used here.

Follow the school histories

Our 19 school records bring together application rounds and leavers’ destinations over time. Downe House, St Mary’s School Ascot and Wellington College do not appear in the published table above; this does not mean they had no applicants or offers.