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- The Parent Power tables are divided into four broad categories: state primary, state
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- secondary, independent secondary and independent preparatory schools. Within each of
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- these groupings, there are several sub-groupings of schools. For example, in addition to
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- our table of the top 500 state secondary schools, there are smaller tables for the top 50
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- state secondary schools without sixth forms, the top 50 sixth form colleges and the top
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- 50 state secondary schools in Scotland. The full menu of league tables available on this
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- disk is shown on the league tables home page. To view our selection of the best schools
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- from each of these categories simply click on the colour-coded button. The database will
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- compile the table (which may take a few seconds) and display the results in rank order.
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- From this point, you have a number of options:
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- Access a schoolΓÇÖs details by clicking on its title in the table
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- Refine the table you have called up in a number of ways.
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- You can re-rank all of our tables by clicking on ΓÇ£townΓÇ¥ at the head of the relevant column
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- to sort the schools alphabetically by location. This will help you identify the schools
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- closest to the area you are interested in (although using the diskΓÇÖs search engine will
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- perform the same task, see below). The schools can also be sorted alphabetically by
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- clicking on ΓÇ£nameΓÇ¥. Where two sets of examination results are combined to produce an
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- overall ranking for a school (A-levels and GCSEs, or Highers and Standard
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- Grade/Intermediate 2), rankings for each of the examinations individually can be
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- produced by clicking at the head of the column containing the data in which you are
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- interested. So, by clicking on ΓÇ£%A/BΓÇ¥ for A-levels will produce a table of schools ranked
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- solely on performance in A-level examinations.
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- The formulae by which the various tables are ranked can be found on the League Tables
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- home page by placing your mouse over the table button in which you are interested. Both
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- state and independent secondary schools are ranked equally where examination data is
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- identical to one decimal place. The number of pupils taking the examinations separates
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- state primary schools that share the same aggregate SAT score. So, a school with 30
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- children achieving Key Stage 2, level 4 will rank above a school where 15 children have
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- reached this standard.
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- The gender by which schools are classified on this disk is the predominant gender of the
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- main intake. Only schools that are fully mixed throughout are classified mixed. So a girls
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- school with a mixed prep department will be listed as a girls school, although its profile
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- page will show the eldest age to which it accepts a mixed intake. So, a girls school that
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- takes boys into its nursery (2-4), pre prep school (4-7) and prep department (7-11/13)
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- would be classified as girls, mixed prep under gender of entry on its profile page, but
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- show as a girlsΓÇÖ school in any tables.