High ranking for grammar

Several schools across Maidenhead and the surrounding areas have been named as top performers in Parent Power, The Sunday Times Schools Guide 2022.

The 29th edition of Parent Power identifies the highestachieving schools in the UK, ranked by their examination results from 2017-19.

Parent Power is widely acknowledged as the most authoritative survey of the country’s highest-achieving schools.

Lowbrook Academy, Maidenhead, has secured top primary school in the South East, ranking seventh in the country (see opposite).

Furthermore, Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School in Cookham has ranked joint-seventh in the region, tied47th in the country.

Meanwhile, Sir William Borlase's Grammar School in Marlow ranked 10th in the top state secondary schools in the South East, 44th across the country.

Primary schools are ranked on the average outcomes achieved by schools in Standard Assessment Tests (SATs) in the three years, 2017-19. A score of 100 in reading, grammar, or maths indicates children are performing exactly as expected in that category.

Secondary schools use the average percentage of A* to B grades at A-level (which is given a double weighting) and the average percentage of entries returning 9-7 or A* and A grades at GCSE.

Lowbrook and Holy Trinity scored a total aggregated score of 339.7 and 334 respectively.

For Sir William Borlase, students achieved 77 per cent A*-B in A-levels, whilst 70.6 of GCSE grades were in the top three marks.