GCSE and A Level Success

Yesterday the Department for Education published the provisional performance tables which allow parents to compare how schools performed in last summer’s GCSEs.  I am delighted to let you know that these performance tables have confirmed that the GCSE results achieved by the students of King Edward VI Handsworth Grammar School for Boys were the best ever results that the school has achieved since the reform of GCSEs in 2017.  

The GCSE results achieved by last year’s Year 11 give the school a Progress 8 score of +0.78.  This is a very impressive score, and it means that students at King Edward VI Handsworth Grammar School for Boys made progress that was ‘well above’ the national average for students of the same ability in other schools across the country.  

The GCSE performance places our school as the second-best performing school in Birmingham and Walsall when compared to other boys and mixed grammar schools.  

The performance of our students at GCSE also comes in a year where we achieved record-breaking A-Level results, with last year’s Year 13s achieving our highest ever proportion of A*-A and A*-B grades in a normal exam year.  

The confirmation of these results in the performance tables is a real testament to the hard work and commitment of our students and staff and the strong level of support we receive from our parents.