GCSE Results in General

GCSE Results are out today.

• Nationally there has been a 1.3% drop to  in the number of papers awarded A*-C since last year.
• In English, 63.6% of entries gained a C or higher, down from 64.1% last summer.
• In maths, 57.6% of entries scored an A*-C grade, compared to 58.4% in 2012.
• There has been a 7.6 percentage point fall in the proportion of entries awarded a C or higher in GCSE science following recent toughening up the qualifications which had been found to have got too easy.
• The results also show a “dramatic” rise in the number of entries for modern foreign languages. French entries are up 15.5%, German up 9.4% and Spanish up 25.8%.

Local 2013 GCSE Results

Local results will appear in the Table below as they become available.

• 5A*-C(M+E) means 5GCSEs at a minimum of grade C including maths and English.
• The English baccalaureate entails achieving 5 GCSEs at a minimum of grade C including Maths, English, Science, History or Geography, and a foreign language.

Where a school has good 5A*-C(M+E) but a low English Baccalaureate score it indicates that pupils are passing 5 or more GCSE subjects  at grade C or above but are either failing or simply not studying some of the subjects required for the English Bacc. .

You can sort columns of the table by clicking on the headers.

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