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