New figures released today reveal how well students at schools up and down the country did in their GCSE exams.
In recent years the classic alphabet grading system has been swapped for Attainment 8 – an average score across eight subjects.
They include English, Maths and a range of other subjects – and the higher the score, the better.
Across England the average score was 46.7 for pupils at state-funded schools.
Henrietta Barnett School scored 85.1 points per pupil across this measure in their 2019 GCSEs – the highest score of any state school.
In second place was The Tiffin Girls' School in Kingston upon Thames, where students had an Attainment 8 score of 85.0 points, closely followed by Kendrick School in Reading (84.5).
The Department for Education figures also looked at students’ Progress 8 score – a measure which monitors pupils’ progress between Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 4.
A school that does well here might not get the very top exam results, but they are achieving the most when it comes to students’ academic development.
A Progress 8 score of 1.0 means pupils made, on average, a grade more progress than the national average.
A score of -0.5 means they make on average half a grade less progress than average.
Tauheedul Islam Girls' High School in Blackburn with Darwen was the school where students made the most academic progress across England, with a score of 2.1.
The data also reveals the proportion of students at each school who got strong passes of 5 or above in the 1-9 grading system for English and Maths.
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