The best and worst Essex schools for getting into Oxford or …

A school in Chelmsford has been identified as having the best record for sending students to Oxford or Cambridge University of any school or college in Essex. Chelmsford County High School for Girls, on Broomfield Road, sent 19 pupils to one of the country’s top two universities at the end of the 2019/20 academic year.

That’s according to figures recently released by the Department for Education. It works out as one in six pupils (16.7 per cent) which is a larger percentage than at any other state-funded secondary school or college in the region.

Colchester Royal Grammar School has the next best record with 16.4 per cent of pupils (28 in total) going to Oxbridge. That’s followed by Colchester County High School for Girls with 15.5 per cent (16 pupils in total), and King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford^[1] with 11.1 per cent (21 pupils in total).

The 28 pupils that Colchester^[4] Royal Grammar School sent to Oxbridge is the highest overall total in our county and the joint 11th highest in England. Not every part of the country managed to send pupils to Oxford or Cambridge, however – just one pupil from Thurrock^[5] was sent to Oxbridge.

The Henrietta Barnett School in Barnet sent the largest proportion of its 2019/20 cohort to Oxbridge out of any state-run secondary school or college in England.

Some 28.2 per cent of pupils made it into the country’s top two universities. King’s College London Maths School in Lambeth had the next best ratio at 25 per cent, followed by Queen Elizabeth’s School, Barnet at 24.3 per cent.

Hills Road Sixth Form College in Cambridgeshire sent the highest number of any state-run school or college, with 59 in total. That’s followed by Brampton Manor Academy in Newham with 53, Brighton Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College with 50, and Peter Symonds College in Hampshire with 43.

You can search this table to see how your school or prospective school compares in terms of the number of students it sends to Oxbridge .

References

1. ^{^} Chelmsford (www.essexlive.news)
2. ^{^} Loose Women star Stacey Solomon ‘proud’ as she makes giant DIY nutcracker for Christmas for a fraction of the price to buy one (www.essexlive.news)
3. ^{^} The winter wonderland Christmas event in Colchester where you can meet Santa on board a magical train carriage (www.essexlive.news)
4. ^{^} Colchester (www.essexlive.news)
5. ^{^} Thurrock (www.essexlive.news)