Best boarding high schools in London

well i applied there over 8 years ago.

i just remeber my parents telling me that if i did get in then it would be
extremly difficult for them because back then they hadnt sorted out their
visas etc and had to regularly return to our home country. part of the reason
why i didnt go to Merchant Taylors..but apparently they have since then
built a board house? god i wish i could have used the internet back then..
my parents hardly spoke english and only relied on advice of family friends
who live in UK previously (and their advice was always awfull in retrospect).

bah both of them are rubbish now

well they are rubbish compared to my school

It's a good school but it's IB dominated, few people (maybe 3) do A Levels at 6th form so that's probably why it's not talked about as much as other schools.

Also, Merchant Taylors isn't top 10/20, it's more 20-30, still an excellent school nonetheless but I think my school has kicked it's butt the last 2 years, good thing too lol. It's practically the brother school of my school but not officially like Habs boys and girls, but we do a lot together and have so many jokes about MTs that I can't help but laugh to hear it talked about here.

Also, I'm guessing when you say top 10/20 for MTs and saying Habs was no.1 a few years ago, you're meaning it terms of only boys schools because otherwise I would have thought the school topping the league tables would be Habs girls, which always outperforms Habs boys.

Look at the rankings circa 1998 which is when I first started going. In that year Habs Boys finished no 1. Then there were a few years where we came around 4/5 and still out performed the girls. Then in about 2002 the Girls started outperforming the boys and it's been than way ever since *sigh*.

Now as an Old Haberdasher, I'm sure we're going to decline even further; but we will get back up there again, as soon as we sack the Headmaster.

Belle, I'm guessing you're at St. Helens? If you're beating MT's, both schools must have really come up in the world recently...

I should add abrp, that academically Harrow is not a particularly good school and that amongst public schoolers it is regarded as a school for thick kids who are good at sport. Eton is much better.

I doubt very much that any good boarding school will accept a student into the final year of GCSEs as most of the material is covered in the first year. Most IB schools in the UK do GCSEs as well, unless he enters an American school, but I don't know if ASL is boarding (the other American schools are in the Windsor area, which might be a bit far out if you're looking for central LondoN). My school (all girls so not very useful for you!) won't accept students into year 11, but will allow them to 'go back a year' into year 10.