News Online's rankings of secondary schools and colleges by their 2003 exam results.

To find your way around the results:

use the England Secondary dropdown list of local education authorities on the right of every page, or

enter a school or college name or a full postcode in the relevant search box

There is a page for each of more than 4,000 maintained and independent schools in the 150 local education authority geographical areas, and tables comparing their exam performance.

The school pages include a "value added" measure showing how much progress children made from when they took their national curriculum tests in 2001 to their GCSEs and GNVQs in 2003.

Read this first:
Explanation of what is in the tables and of the abbreviations used.