Bromley (Parliament Politics Magazine) – St Olave’s and St Saviour’s Grammar School in Bromley has been ranked number one in the UK by the Great British Schools Guide (GBSG).
The guide ranked schools according to the most recent answers to the government’s Parent View survey, which is the official platform used by Ofsted to collect parent feedback, for the 2024–2025 school year.
Data from the Great British Schools Guide (GBSG) has been made public to show which schools parents feel their kids feel the safest at and how safety relates to academic achievement.
The GBSG website states:
“The analysis focuses on responses to the statement: ‘My child feels safe at this school’, one of the key indicators in the online survey where parents rate various aspects of school life using a five-point Likert scale, from ‘strongly disagree’ to ‘strongly agree’.”
The guide was only made available to schools who have at least 30 Parent View survey responses and a minimum response rate of 20%.
Of the 328 parents who responded, all of them gave St. Olave’s and St. Saviour’s Grammar School high marks for safety.
In terms of what makes a Bromley school feel safe, GBSG said:
“Interestingly, our analysis shows a strong connection between perceived safety and broader satisfaction.
The correlation between the safety score and parents’ likelihood of recommending the school was an astonishing 0.96 (with one being perfect), suggesting that safety is a core driver of overall parent endorsement.”
Additionally, St. Olave’s and St. Saviour’s Grammar School received the highest regional rating for London, with a 98 percent rating, followed by Richmond upon Thames’ Turing House School.
How St Olave’s Progress 8 and A‑level trends have changed?
In 2022, the school achieved a provisional Progress 8 score of 0.95 – the highest in Bromley.
The Progress 8 score reflects the progress students have made from the end of primary education to their GCSEs education, based on student progress scores with same baseline in achievement. The score of St Olave’s day school being close to 1.0 shows that students, on average, progress by about one grade higher than truely expected per subject.
In 2024, the schools score rose to a Progress 8 score of 1.27, putting them in the 20th place nationally. This rise is indicative of an increase of extra academic value added by the school and a rising in the trend of student progress.
The Class of 2025 have also achieved a record 95.1% A-B grades*, of which 39% were A grades*, and 78% A/A* grades*, a continual upward trend in progress from years before.