Best Schools in the UK

Queen Margaret's has been named as a top performer in The Sunday Times Parent Power Schools Guide 2022. The Parent Power Schools Guide identifies the highest-achieving schools in the UK and QM has once again been recognised with a top-10 placing in the list of Top Performing Independent Secondary Schools in the North.

The 29th edition of Parent Power identifies the highest-achieving schools in the UK, ranked by their examination results from 2017-19.

Alastair McCall, editor of Parent Power, said; "The need for clarity about school examination performance has never been greater after two years of centre- and teacher-assessed grades, during which for completely understandable reasons, the numbers of top grades increased dramatically."

"We felt it was important to go back to the last sets of moderated public examination outcomes from 2019, 2018 and 2017 to get the most accurate and current view of school academic achievement."

Sue Baillie, Queen Margaret's Head, commented; "The outstanding pastoral care here at QM was recently recognised when we were named as Independent School of the Year for Student Wellbeing. It is so pleasing for our academic excellence to be given equal recognition with our Sunday Times ranking. Our hard-working girls and dedicated teaching staff are very deserving of the impressive results they achieve every year."