Top GCSE Grades Soar at Eltham College: Record performance sees 7 in 10 results graded 9-8
Students at Eltham College are celebrating a record haul of the very top grades at GCSE, with over 70% of results reaching the all-important grade 9-8 band (A* under the previous system). Up four percentage points on last year’s performance and 12 points against 2023, this is the school’s highest-ever tally outside Covid times.
Within this, an exceptional 44% of all results reached the highest possible grade, grade 9 – making this by far the most common grade for the year group. Up over five percentage points against last year, this performance likewise marked a second year of impressive improvement, up almost 13 points versus the 2023 position. Almost nine in every ten results (88%) were grades 9, 8 or 7 (A*/A equivalent).
Standout individual performances include Tilly, Arnav and Roxolana, who each achieved an extraordinary clean sweep of eleven grade 9s, while across the school, 26 pupils brought home results which included at least nine at this highest grade.
This stellar pattern of success is replicated across the widest range of subject areas, with particular highs including: Physics, 55% at grade 9 and 95% at the 9/8/7, A*/A equivalent; Maths, where half (51%) of all grades were a 9 and 89% 9/8/7; and the creative subjects, Art, Drama, Design Technology and Music, where almost three-quarters of grades (74%) were 9-8 (A* equivalent) – with an exceptional 67% of grades in Art being a 9. Languages saw strong results, with standout performances in French (92% of grades at the 9-8 A* equivalent, 63% achieving a 9) and in Latin, with 54% graded 9 and 100% making 9,8 or 7. Also of special note were Geography (93% grades 9/8/7) and Biology (89% grades 9/8/7).
Headmaster Guy Sanderson said: “As our first fully co-educational Year 11 cohort, these boys and girls were always set to make school history, but with these record results they have made a truly extraordinary mark. They should be immensely proud of all they have achieved, and we look forward to welcoming them back shortly into the Sixth Form.
As Head, I am thrilled to see not only fantastic grades across every subject area, from STEM to the arts, humanities to languages, but importantly a consistent pattern of improvement, with double-digit change to the positive at the highest end of the scale. My congratulations to every student in this excellent cohort and my thanks to the dedicated staff who supported them at each step.”
