The clue is in our name. From day one of The Good Schools Guide, no school has been able to choose (or pay) to be included in – or indeed excluded from – our good books, and when we select a school for review it is an implicit recommendation.
Uniquely, our raison d’être is to write school reviews that genuinely inform and educate parents, and we work tirelessly to achieve this. Because schools don’t pay to be included in The Guide, they have no influence over what we write about them, so making sure we choose the right ones to include is something we take as seriously as sampling every school’s lunch menu, sitting in on a physics class or grilling the head teacher on their approach to discipline.
Deciding which schools are worthy of a place in The Guide is an art not a science – our writing team has its ears to the ground and its fingers on pulses up and down the UK and beyond to help us give our readers the inside track on the very best independent, state, SEND and international schools.
If you’d like to learn more, have a read of our School Selection Process and our review process.
