Top independent sports schools of 2017
We have revealed the country’s best state sports schools of 2017 – now it’s the turn of Britain’s best independent schools.
Hundreds of schools turn in a series of remarkable results after months of hard work – but who are the country’s best of the best.
The list reflects competitive achievement in a range of sports throughout 2017 and honours those schools that take competition especially seriously.
So congratulations to Millfield School – winners for the fifth successive year - who reached the final stages of ten different sports and won national titles at football, tennis, swimming and biathlon.
Well done too to Whitgift School in Surrey, second for the fifth successive year, who won four national titles at rugby union, hockey, table tennis and biathlon and reached the final stages of three more.
Compliments also to Guildford High School - in third place again - one of four all-girls schools in the top 30, who reached the later stages of national netball, athletics, swimming, lacrosse and cross-country competitions.
Manchester Grammar School made it into the top ten for the first time in fifth place as did Cumbria’s Sedbergh School in seventh.
And hats off to the other 27 teams who have made it into the top 30 of our fifth annual chart – not to mention the hundreds of other schools that haven’t made the list this year but are still providing excellent competitive opportunities for their pupils.
Based on 20 different sports and more than 120 different national competitions, more weighting is given to success in a range of sports rather than single sports as well as competitions with more teams competing.
Keep watching online at www.schoolsportmag.co.uk for our extended top 100 list which will be uploaded in due course.
1 (1) Millfield School
2 (2) Whitgift School
3 (3) Guildford HS
4 (30) St Catherine’s School, Guildford
5 (23) Manchester Grammar School
6 (4) Bromsgrove School
7 (14) Sedbergh School
8 (5) Wycombe Abbey School
9 (8) Sevenoaks School
10 (11) Bedford Girls School
11 (85) Felsted School
12 (12) Wellington College
13 (77) Ackworth School
14 (-) Bede’s School
15 (78) Tonbridge School
16 (31) Cranleigh School
17 (68) Surbiton High School
18 (18) RGS Newcastle
19 (25) Trent College
20 (26) St Helen & St Katharine School
21 (10) Berkhamsted School
22 (39) Hymers College
23 (34) Repton School
24 (37) Bournemouth Collegiate School
25 (51) Bedford School
26 (13) Reeds School
27 (40) Warwick School
28 (24) Benenden School
29 (49) Brighton College
30 (-) Blundell’s School
31 (83) Dulwich Prep School
32 (-) Truro School
33 (43) Oakham School
34 (82) St Swithun’s School, Winchester
35 (74) Mount Kelly
36 (46) Hampton School
37 (100) Langley School
38 (-) Portsmouth Grammar School
39 (45) New Hall School
40 (41) Putney High School
41 (-) Stockport Grammar School
42 (28) Loughborough High School
43 (70) Kings College Taunton
44 (35) Wycliffe College
45 (-) Canford School
46 (-) Clifton College
47 (7) Culford School
48 (21) Woodhouse Grove School
49 (-) Talbot Heath School
50 (69) Plymouth College
51 (-) Woodbridge School
52 (91) Grange School
53 (84) Shrewsbury School
54 (-) Ashville College
55 (88) Oldham Hulme GS
56 (-) Latymer Upper School
57 (-) Framlingham College
58 (-) King’s Hall School, Taunton
59 (-) Norwich School
60 (-) Ellesmere College
61 (86) Godolphin & Latymer School
62 (15) Grammar School at Leeds
63 (44) QEGS Wakefield
64 (48) Kingston GS
65 (71) Queenswood School
66 (90) Lady Eleanor Holles School
67 (56) Stowe School
68 (33) Solihull School
69 (-) Lingfield Notre Dame School
70 (92) Dean Close School
71 (38) RGS Worcester
72 (19) St George’s College, Weybridge
73 (-) Queen Ethelburga’s College
74 (20) Dame Allan’s School
75 (-) St Alban’s School
76 (-) Bury Girls GS
77 (-) Merchant Taylor’s School, Northwood
78 (-) University College School
79 (-) Bradford Girls GS
80 (-) Winchester House School
81 (17) James Allen’s Girls School
82 (42) Downe House School
83 (80) Stamford School
84 (9) Perse School
85 (50) St Paul’s Girls School
86 (32) Cheadle Hulme School
87 (-) Leicester GS
88 (-) Epsom College
89 (-) Reigate GS
90 (-) St Peter’s School, York
91 (-) Gresham’s School
92 (60) RGS Guildford
93 (55) Caterham School
94 (-) St Alban’s HS for Girls
95 (-) Queen’s College Taunton
96 (63) Marlborough College
97 (62) Harrow School
98 (-) Alleyn’s School
99 (-) Highgate School
100 (-) King’s School, Bruton
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