Results

Academic Results

David Flower, Sub-Warden Academic, writes:

The School’s public examination results in 2023 were outstanding. Bucking the national trend and after waves of morose newspaper headlines, Teddies pupils secured tremendous sets of grades. The recipe for their success was simple: dedicated teaching, a desire amongst the pupils to prove themselves in the exam hall for the first time and sheer hard work!

Setting aside the years of Teacher Assessed Grades, these were the best A Level results ever achieved at the School. Whilst results fell nationally by between 5 and 10%, at St Edward’s more pupils achieved A*, A and B grades than ever before, equalling the 2022 results, which were subject to lower grade boundaries and pre-specified content. The School’s results from 2019, the most obviously comparable year, were beaten by a wide margin. Even among these outstanding results, some stand out:  every single pupil taking Art achieved an A or an A*, with several of them departing to the top Art Schools in the world; Maths and Further Maths results were record-breaking with more As and A*s than ever before.

IB results were also buoyant. In a tough year for Diploma results in the UK, average results at Teddies were remarkably resilient, at only one point lower than those achieved in 2020. Amazing results were recorded in Sports Science, where 83% of Higher Level candidates scored a 6 or 7, in Design, where the equivalent figure was 67% and in Philosophy, where 78% reached such heights. We are immensely proud of all the achievements of this IB cohort.

The summer ended with the publication of more record-breaking results. Almost every other school saw their results at GCSE decline steeply in 2023, as the inflation of the pandemic years was stripped out. At St Edward’s, results were on a par with 2022, even before reviews of marking. That means that these are the best set of results at Teddies since the introduction of 9-1 grades in the mid-2010s. 2019 results at grades 9-7, again the most comparable year, were bettered by more than 10 percentage points. 20% of all results were awarded at Grade 9, a record. 

The upward momentum at St Edward’s is writ large in these results. It is no coincidence that it was this cohort of pupils that arranged for the library to be open for longer hours on Sundays and who organised their own boarding house revision sessions on the eve of exams. Their hard work,  commitment and initiative truly paid off.

A Level Results 2019 – 2023

YearA*/AA*-BA*-C
202348%83%94%
202253%82%96%
202161%83%95%
202058%88%98%
201945%79%97%

IB Higher Level Results 2019 – 2023

YearIB 7/6IB 7-5IB 7-4Average points score
202343%83%90%33
202261%93%99%35
202166%94%100%36
202052%86%99%33
201955%87%99%34

Combined A Level and IB Higher Level Results 2019 – 2023

YearA*/A + IB 7/6A*-B + IB 7-5A*-C + IB 7-4
202345%83%96%
202257%87%97%
202163%89%97%
202055%87%98%
201951%84%98%

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