Stellar GCSE performances at Churcher's College

With the mixture of old and new, with the letter grades and number grades intermingled, it is much more complicated this year to assess how well everyone has done in the GCSE exams, but there are one or two indisputable statistics which show some stellar performances at Churcher's College.

For example, Chris, Jacob and Maddie have the equivalent of straight A* grades across their 10 subjects and they are part of 15% of the year group who have achieved nothing but 9,8,7, A* or A grades across the board.

Although the number and letter grade mix makes comparisons with previous years very complicated, that 90% of all the exams taken are the equivalent of B grade or above is very significant indeed and it suggests that the children have not simply met expectations, they have exceeded them. Selecting out just one or two subjects is unfair, as irrespective of the subject area there are impressive results, but one can’t help noticing subjects such as Maths, Art, French, Latin, Religion & Philosophy, in which over half of all the candidates were given the exceptional A* grade or that History, Chemistry and Physics enjoyed the fact that 80% were awarded A* or A grades.

With record numbers applying to the Sixth Form here this year there will be a significant number joining the in-house ‘crew’ as they move on into the Sixth Form, rightly wearing huge beaming smiles of satisfaction of a job very well done on their faces.

GCSE Results	A*	A*-A	A*-B	A*-C
2014	28.6	66.7	89.6	97.7
2015	27.4	60.8	87.3	97.5
2016	30.7	64.5	87.9	98.2
2017 Equivalent	31.6	62.6	90.7	98.7