Summer 2025 Results
This cohort did not take SATs exams due to the coronavirus pandemic so the government will not be publishing progress figures this year and the figures quoted below are indicative from our data collaboration system, SISRA.
P8 +0.54 (provisional figure). (A score of +0.5 or above is generally considered well above average).
Total Attainment 8
· 53.6 (5.36 is the average grade – a 5 equates to a high C/low B in the old system; this was the highest Attainment 8 score of any state school in the city this year)
· 80.6% of students achieved at least 5 GCSEs at Grade 4 (a standard pass) including English and Maths
· 59.4% of students achieved at least 5 GCSEs at Grade 5 (a strong pass) including English and Maths
· 35% of all grades 7+ (a grade 7 equates to an A in the old system)
Summer 2024 Results
P8 +0.87 (provisional figure). (A score of +0.5 or above is generally considered well above average).
Total Attainment 8
· 59.49 (5.94 is the average grade – a 6 is a B in the old system)
· 91.6% of students achieved at least 5 GCSEs at Grade 4 (a standard pass) including English and Maths
· 77.1% of students achieved at least 5 GCSEs at Grade 5 (a strong pass) including English and Maths
· 42% of all grades 7+ (a grade 7 equates to an A in the old system)
We are very proud of our excellent academic results, which have been the best in the city for the past two years and rank as “well above average” nationally. This is based upon the government’s measures to compare schools. Our results have been consistently high since the reintroduction of exams following the pandemic.
Explaining GCSE Results
What is Progress 8?
Progress 8 is a type of 'value-added' measure that indicates how much a secondary school has helped pupils improve (or progress) over a five-year period when compared to a government-calculated expected level of improvement. … this measure takes a pupil's performance in relation to their peers at primary school level, compares it with their performance at GCSEs (their Attainment 8 score) and then … establishes whether the individual has progressed at, above or below the expected level. As before, the scores for individuals are not published but they are grouped together to get an average for a school's overall score.
How is the Progress 8 score calculated?
For example, the Department for Education looks at a Child A's GCSE grades in eight subjects (Attainment 8) and then compares them to the GCSE results of all children across the country who, five years earlier, performed similarly to Child A in Key Stage 2 reading and writing. From here, numbers are crunched to work out the average expected level of progress for pupils nationwide, as well as how Child A has performed in comparison and the school's overall score.
· A score of zero means that the school's pupils progressed at a rate in line with the average rate of progression of other children across the country who achieved similar results at the end of Key Stage 2.
· A score above zero means that school's pupils have progressed more than children across the country who achieved similar results at the end of Key Stage 2.
· A score below zero means that pupils made less progress than children across the country who achieved similar results at the end of Key Stage 2. A negative score does not mean there was no progress, but rather that pupils made less progress than at schools with higher scores.” Progress 8 and Attainment 8 explained | The Good Schools Guide
A score of +0.5 or above is generally considered well above average.