Private schools have moved further ahead of state schools in bagging the highest proportion of top grades this year. In England, 48.4 per cent of private school entries scored at least a 7 compared to ...

London and north-east England continue to have the highest and lowest proportion of GCSE entries awarded grade 7/A or above in England, but the gap between the regions has narrowed for the first time ...

New GCSE performance data for the most recent 2024/25 school year is out now But how well pupils did once again varied considerably across the country There was also an almost 9 percentage point ...

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The “chronic” under-performance of boys at GCSE should be treated as a “major issue”, it has been suggested. Professor Alan Smithers, director of the Centre for Education and Employment Research at ...

Six of the nine regions of England saw a rise this year in the proportion of GCSE entries awarded grade 7/A or above. The proportion of GCSE entries awarded the top grades varies across the country ...