For every school across the country comparison of results with previous years has become almost an impossibility, writes Headmaster Simon Williams. Not only do we have a mix of letter and number grades across the subjects, in some individual subjects you may even also have a mix of letters and numbers where some pupils have taken an exam a year early as our top Mathematicians have, and all those were graded A*.

​Leighton Park’s 80-strong cohort of Year 11 students were up bright and early this morning eager to collect their GCSE results. Whilst all were keen to discover the outcome of two years’ dedicated study, many were equally keen join the Sixth Form next autumn, ranked the Best in Berkshire and in the Top 40 nationally for academic progress.

​Felsted pupils have recorded outstanding results in their GCSE exams this summer, following on from excellent results in A Levels and record results in the International Baccalaureate.

Llandovery College is today celebrating the success of pupils securing some of the highest grades in the UK.

Haileybury pupils are today celebrating an outstanding set of GCSE results, the best in the School’s history by some margin.

Cranleigh School has maintained last year’s record GCSE results, with 26% of all grades a 9, and 55% of all grades being 9/8. In addition, 68% of all grades were 9-7 (equivalent to A*–A) and 99% of students gained 5 GCSEs at 9 to 4 grade.