Can see the online version of the article here:
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/new ... 436175.ece
Doesn't really say a great deal - bigs up the KE Consortium in general and has some quotes from KECHB headmaster Martin Garrod.
The ranking appears to be simply based on A Level & GCSE score - nothing else. That's a shame as surely there's more to a school than simple exam performance? The top of the table looks like this ....
THE TOP STATE AND INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS IN THE MIDLANDS
Col1 MIDLANDS RANK
Col2 NATIONAL RANK
Col3 A-LEVEL (% A*-B)
Col4 GCSE (% A*/A)
1 50= King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys, Birmingham 93.6 82.0
2 55 Concord College, Shrewsbury 94.8 77.5
3 57= King Edward's School, Birmingham 88.3 89.4
4 76 Loughborough High School 90.6 77.0
5 85 King's High School, Warwick 87.6 78.7
6 89 King Edward VI Handsworth School, Birmingham 86.8 78.4
7 90 King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls, Birmingham 86.1 79.4
8= 92= Nottingham Girls’ High School GDST 88.9 73.4
8= 92= King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham 81.7 87.8
10 100 Nottingham High School 88.6 71.5
11 116 King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon 81.7 80.5
12 123= Warwick School 83.9 75.2
13 130 Stratford-upon-Avon Grammar School for Girls 82.0 78.0
14 139 Solihull School 82.4 75.2
15 140 Leicester Grammar School 86.1 67.7
16 144 Wolverhampton Girls' High School 78.8 81.3
17 157 The King's School, Worcester 83.2 69.6
18 166= Saint Martin's, Solihull 89.5 55.4
19 178 Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls 82.2 68.4
20 180= Bromsgrove School 88.4 55.7
21 184 Oakham School 84.9 61.6
22 185 Bishop Vesey's Grammar School, Sutton Coldfield 82.3 66.7
23 186 Shrewsbury School 83.0 65.0
24 189 Rugby School 75.7 79.0
25 190= Newport Girls' High School 76.3 77.4
26 194= Moreton Hall, Oswestry 82.1 64.5
27 210 Repton School, Derby 79.4 66.8
28 219 Malvern St James, Great Malvern 82.8 59.2
29 224 Shrewsbury High School GDST 82.1 60.0
30 228 Leicester High School for Girls 75.2 72.5