A Level Results 2025
This year, Eltham College celebrates another superb set of A Level results – surpassing last year’s already excellent outcomes.
More than one-third (34%) of grades were at the very highest level – A*- over 4 percentage points higher than last year’s results. The three highest available grades (A*, A and B) remained firmly the norm for Eltham students: 92% of all results fall within this band, also up on last year.
Excellent performances across a wide range of subjects saw one in every three Eltham College students achieve a clean sweep of all A* and A grades, with 17 students gaining at least A*A*A*.
Superb STEM results include an impressive 45% of candidates attaining A* and 82% A*/A in Chemistry, with 40% and 57% gaining A* grades in Maths and Further Maths respectively. As a result, no fewer than five students have secured places to continue their scientific studies at world-leading Imperial College.
Other outstanding results include in Art, where an exceptional 88% of grades were A*, and 100% A*/A, Design Technology (60% A*) and Politics (42% A*), with languages also putting in an excellent showing, achieving 100% A* grades in German and 67% in French.
On the back of such strong performances, it is no surprise that the huge majority of students secured places at their first-choice universities, studying the widest range of subjects, from science and maths to humanities and the arts. University destinations include Durham, Exeter, UCL, King’s College, London, Bristol, Warwick and Edinburgh, as well as Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial. This year also sees Eltham students accepted into top UK drama schools and conservatoires.
Athena
Hugo
Alex
Sienna and Ava
Rex, Ollie, and Bleddyn
GCSE Results 2025
2025 brought a record haul of the very top grades at GCSE, with 71% 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 45% 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, no fewer than 26 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).
Nathan
Roxy
Andrea
Ben
