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The tables should be maintained "come good news, come bad news" to allow parents to make decent judgments about school performance, it was claimed.
The comments come as 62 top schools - including Eton, St Paul's and Winchester - opt-out of national rankings published today.
Headmasters claim tables skew the education system as schools are forced to "teach to the test" to improve their position.
But schools refusing to pull out defended the results, saying they had nothing to hide.
Magdalen College School, Oxford, came top of The Daily Telegraph rankings this year after 99.6 per cent of A-levels were graded an A or B. City of London School for Girls was just behind on 99.56 per cent. The success of the boys' school reverses a trend in recent years when all-girl schools dominated the tables.
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