Academic Results 2022

David Flower, Sub-Warden Academic, discusses the excellent exam results received by pupils this summer in A Levels, GCSEs and the IB and just how impressive their achievements are in the current climate.

The public exam results of 2022 gave much cause for celebration. Prior to the national release of results, the press had already dubbed this cohort the ‘most disrupted since the Second World War,’ so it was with a great sense of joy, and no little relief, that both the Upper Sixth and Fifth Form achieved record results.

At IB, more than 60% of Higher Level grades were awarded at the 7 or 6 level and almost 94% were at grades 7-5. The A Level cohort matched their IB peers, with 52% of grades at A*/A and 83% at A*-B. All of these figures are up on 2019 and, after re-marks, will come close to matching the Teacher Assessed Grades of 2021, a remarkable achievement given that outcomes went into reverse across the country as Ofqual and the Government sought to control pandemic-related grade inflation.

Even better news was to follow a week later with the release of GCSE and Pathways & Perspectives results. With almost two thirds of all grades awarded at 9-7, these were the highest results ever achieved by pupils at the School and confirm the upward trend in our results over the last decade.

Pupils deserve the highest praise. It is clear that all of them worked extremely hard in the spring and early summer of this year and they can be truly proud of what they have achieved. More than 80% of our leavers will go onto their first-choice university and others, who did not apply this year, will go into the 2023 admissions round in a very strong position. Given the turmoil that this generation of pupils has faced, their achievements are remarkable; we are equally proud of the tenacity and ingenuity displayed by the teachers and House teams as we all learnt to adapt to the restrictions of the pandemic.

Having been here a year, I have observed the sense of hard work and community endeavour for which our School is rightly known and it is therefore of no surprise to me that the School goes from strength to strength. The baton now passes to the 2023 cohorts and we are excited by what they will go on to achieve.

David Flower, Sub-Warden Academic

For more information and statistics on past results, visit our results page.