Only pupils from similar socio-economic backgrounds are compared with each other. Each school is then given a standardised score based on complicated calculations. This also recognises the work of schools that have to make do with fewer resources and are not favoured from the outset. Steiner Academy Hereford in Herefordshire, West Midlands, has now been named as the best school in England in the ‘Fairer School Index 2025’. This is a great success for the school, which was founded in 2008 and is the first publicly funded Waldorf school in England.