Top five placing for Perse School in Oxbridge offers table
The Perse School is among the top five schools in the country for students receiving Oxbridge offers.
Based on data from the 2023 UCAS application cycle, The Spectator has published a table highlighting the number of Oxford and Cambridge offers received by students from schools in comparison with the number of applications.
The Perse is ranked fifth nationally and third within the independent sector in The Spectator’s highly regarded table with almost 40% of Oxbridge applicants receiving offers in 2023.
This compares extremely favourably to prestigious independent schools such as Eton College (eighth), Winchester College (17th), Brighton College (43rd) and Harrow School (71st).
Perse Deputy Head Tanya Khimyak (Teaching & Learning) commented: “This is an amazing outcome and a testament to the hard work of all our students and staff.”
The Perse’s success in The Spectator rankings follows on from featuring in the top 10 in The Times’ Independent School Exam Results league table for 2024 A level results.
The Telegraph also gave The Perse the top rating of ‘Very Good’ in its recent value-for-money table, based on the exceptional educational results attained by students at A level in relation to the fees charged.
In addition, The Perse is currently the second highest performing independent co-educational day school at A level and the top performing independent school in East Anglia. This follows on from the school being named regional Independent School of the Year for Academic Performance The Sunday Times’ 2024 Parent Power guide.
The 2024 UCAS admission cycle has also been very successful with 78% of Perse students gaining places at their first-choice universities, including 37 students taking up offers of Oxbridge places, and many more with other prestigious Russell Group universities, such as Durham (17) and Imperial College London (15).
Among them, 34 students have taken up offers of places reading medicine and veterinary medicine, while 16 have gone on to study engineering.
Meanwhile, four students have accepted places at renowned overseas universities including Yale in the USA.
You can find out more about where out 2024 Upper Sixth students have gone to university and what courses they are studying here.