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More info × Group 28 Thank you for subscribing! We have more newsletters Show Me No thanks, close See our Privacy Notice Students across England are expected to get their results on Thursday (August 22) - and figures show the highest-achieving Cambridgeshire schools from last year. The statistics, sourced by the Reach Data Unit, list GCSE results from schools across the UK in the 2022/23 academic year. They rank schools on the percentage of Grades 5 and above gained by their students.
Grade 5 is considered to be a 'strong pass'. It is equivalent to a C or low B grade in the previous grading system. Read More: The Cambridgeshire schools where pupils get the best A-level results Read More: 18-mile diversion route in place as Cambs village road to close this week In Cambridgeshire, The Perse School in Cambridge came out on top.
More than 99 per cent of its students' GCSE grades were 5 and above – 19 per cent more than the next highest school in the county. The school with the second highest percentage was St Bede’s Inter-Church School. The Cambridge school saw 80 per cent of results at Grade 5 and above.
Five other Cambridgeshire schools gained more than 70 per cent Grade 5 and above. These were The Kings (The Cathedral) School and The Peterborough School in Peterborough, and Chesterton Community College, St Mary’s School and Parkside Community College in Cambridge. Trumpington Community College in Cambridge, Cottenham Village College in Cottenham and Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology in Cambridge recorded 60 per cent Grade 5 and above.
Elsewhere in the county, Hinchingbrooke School in Huntingdon , St John Fisher Catholic High School in Peterborough and Marshland High School in Wisbech each achieved 40 per cent Grade 5 and above. You can see how your school ranked in our interactive table here: While traditional A*-G grades are used in Northern Ireland and Wales, these have been replaced in England with a 9-1 system, where 9 is the highest. A 4 is broadly equivalent to a C grade, and a 7 is broadly equivalent to an A.
In England, many students who do not secure at least a grade 4 – which is considered a “standard pass” – in English and/or maths GCSE are required to retake the subjects during post-16 education. In England, exams regulator Ofqual said it expected this year’s results to be “broadly similar” to last year, when grades were restored to pre-pandemic levels. In Wales and Northern Ireland, exam regulators said they aimed to return to pre-pandemic grading this summer – a year later than in England.
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