Churcher's College GCSE examination results 2022

Simon Williams, Headmaster at Churcher's College, is absolutely delighted with the terrific GCSE results achieved by their Year 11 students.

After the euphoria of bucking national trends by such significant margins at A Level, at GCSE we are more in line with those trends in our grade distribution. As one might expect our results more closely reflect those of 2019, the last year of exams, rather than the last two Covid, non-examined years.

That said, there are one or two highlights of note. With the change over from letter grades to numbers, OFQUAL set some benchmarks, the top one being that A* and A grades would be equivalent to Grades 9 to 7; at just over 73% Grades 9 to 7, this year is our highest total ever, ignoring the two non-examined years, 2020 and 2021. At the top end there have been some stellar performances as well, seven students, four girls and three boys, achieved straight Grade 9s. In previous examined years our largest number achieving this exceptional, maximum grade position has been two students; even in the Covid non-examined years it has been eight.

Facing so much disruption over the last two years and with all the uncertainty over public exams generated by Covid, it is a delight to see quite how resilient the students here have been. It appears that their academic progress has been unhindered by the pandemic and their accomplishments are being rightly recognised and applauded.

Their determination, endeavour and success inside and outside the classroom bodes well for the future and it is a delight for all of us who teach them that we will enjoy the company of this year’s GCSE cohort for another two years as they flourish in our Sixth Form.