The content of this website is based on the well-established Guide to Independent Schools - an 800 page book also edited by Jenny Lees-Spalding and Klaus Boehm. Now in its 18th edition, it is in three sections.

• School reports contain full reports on over 500 independent secondary schools, arranged alphabetically. There are many different sorts. The book includes all the schools affiliated to the HMC, GSA and SHMIS in the UK. It also includes a handful in continental Europe, all of which teach the British curriculum and/or the International Baccalaureate Diploma in English. One London school, the Lycée, is owned by the French government and teaches both the French and the British curriculum. All the schools take pupils through to 18; most have sixth forms, from which the overwhelming majority of students naturally progress to university. A few offer specialist teaching (eg the performing arts) or provide for specific disabilities (eg blind pupils).
• School search index gives summary information and is arranged geographically.
• What's What in independent secondary education explains common terms, structures and financial help available - streaming, SHMIS, sex education, scholarships and so on.

The Editors are very grateful for the tremendous help Heads of schools have given them in preparing the school reports.