Best UK Schools for Oxbridge Offers 2026: The Full League Table

Every year, Oxford and Cambridge universities publish figures showing how many offers they gave to applicants from each UK school. The Spectator compiles this into a national league table. For 2025 entry, Westminster School topped the list with 96 offers from 179 applications — a 54% success rate. Other stand-outs in the most recent cycle: Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet (62 offers, the top grammar), Hills Road Sixth Form College (62 offers, the top non-selective state provider), and Brampton Manor Academy in East London (54 offers, the top comprehensive). The full table is live on PickMySchool — searchable and filterable by school type.

The top 10 schools for Oxbridge offers (2024 UCAS cycle, 2025 entry) are: 1. Westminster School — 96 offers from 179 applications 2. Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet — 62 offers from 127 applications 3. Hills Road Sixth Form College — 62 offers from 245 applications 4. Harris Westminster Sixth Form — 57 offers from 146 applications 5. Peter Symonds College — 54 offers from 222 applications 6. Brampton Manor Academy — 54 offers from 297 applications 7. Brighton, Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College — 53 offers from 184 applications 8. Eton College — 51 offers from 162 applications 9. St Paul's Girls' School — 48 offers from 88 applications 10. St Paul's School, London — 46 offers from 127 applications Six of the top 10 are state-funded. That would have been unthinkable a decade ago.

The league table above is ranked by total offers. That favours large institutions with hundreds of applicants. If you rank by success rate instead, the picture changes completely. St Paul's Girls' School takes the top spot at 55% (48 offers from 88 applications). Colyton Grammar School leads the grammars at 51% success rate. Brampton Manor, impressive as it is, has an 18% success rate because it puts forward 297 applicants. Both numbers tell real stories — one about scale, the other about selectivity. A school that puts forward more students and gets more in total is doing something different from a school that carefully filters and gets a high hit-rate. Neither is strictly better.

Ten years ago, this league table would have been dominated by independent schools. Today, over 70% of Oxbridge offers go to state-educated students, and six of the top 10 schools for Oxbridge offers are state-funded. Four things drove the shift: • Both universities publicly committed to broadening intake, particularly from under-represented areas • Contextual admissions now consider school background as a factor in offer decisions • A new generation of state sixth-form colleges (Hills Road, Harris Westminster, Peter Symonds) actively target Oxbridge preparation • Brampton Manor Academy's model — high-support, high-expectation sixth form for an area of genuine deprivation — has become a template others are copying For families weighing state vs private, this data is the strongest argument in a generation that a well-chosen state sixth form can match the elite independents on academic outcomes.

Oxbridge offers are a narrow metric. Every school in the top 50 is, by definition, highly selective — they either filter by the 11+, by entrance exam, by GCSE grades, or by fees. The children who arrive there are already exceptional. What the league table really measures is how effectively each school converts high-ability students into Oxbridge applicants and offers. A few things the offer count misses: • Whether Oxbridge is actually the right fit for your child — many students thrive at other Russell Group universities, at US universities, or at specialist providers • Pastoral care, bullying culture, and whether your child will be happy • Non-academic outcomes — creativity, sport, character • Value added — a school that gets 10 Oxbridge offers from a cohort of 60 students at GCSE grade 9 is arguably adding less value than one that gets 5 offers from a cohort that started with grades 7–8 Use the league table as one input, not the deciding factor.

Every ranked school on PickMySchool now shows its Oxbridge figures inside the Results tab — offers, applications, success rate, and national ranking. The data covers two cycles (2024 entry and 2025 entry) for the 16 schools where both are published. The full league table is at /oxbridge. You can filter by school type (Independent, Grammar, Sixth-form college, Academy, Partially-selective), sort by offers, success rate, or total applications, and switch between cycles. If your child's target school isn't on the list, that usually means it had fewer than about 15 Oxbridge applicants in the most recent cycle — not that it failed, just that the universities don't publish data for small cohorts.

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