Seven Worcester Schools are among the top educational establishments in the country, according to a rankings website.

The King’s School and Royal Grammar School Worcester were both given a five-star rating by schoolsguide.co.uk, a website designed to help parents identify the best schools in their local area – coming out on top of the website’s league table.

Meanwhile, five Worcester primary schools achieved a five-star rating.

These were St George’s Catholic Primary School, St Clement’s CE Primary School, Pitmaston Primary School, Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Primary School and Northwick Manor Primary School.

The website’s top ranked non-independent secondary school in Worcester was Christopher Whitehead Language College, which received four stars out of five.

Schoolsguide.co.uk grades schools based on academic performance, pupil satisfaction, the reading and maths ability ages of pupils and other relevant statistics up to GCSE level.

A total of 34,000 schools across the country were graded as part of the rankings.

The guide also features parent reviews on their website, though these do not factor into the ratings of schools.

Elsewhere across the region, there are nine Malvern schools with five-star ratings – three of these were secondary schools and six were primary schools.

For more education news, including new figures on GCSE results in Worcestershire and how your school fared, see worcesternews.co.uk or the double-page Education News special in each Thursday's Worcester News print edition.

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