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A-level results, 1990 to 2026. Figure found: 34 years; found, not compared: 1 year; no figure yet: 2 years. 
A-level results, 1990 to 2026. Figure found: 36 years; no figure yet: 1 year. 
A-level results, 1990 to 2026. Figure found: 34 years; found, not compared: 1 year; no figure yet: 2 years. 
A-level results, 1990 to 2026. Figure found: 35 years; not researched yet: 2 years. 
A-level results, 1990 to 2026. Figure found: 18 years; no figure yet: 16 years; not researched yet: 3 years. 
A-level results, 1990 to 2026. Figure found: 20 years; no figure yet: 13 years; not researched yet: 1 year; 3 years before our research starts. 
A-level results, 1990 to 2026. Figure found: 20 years; found, not compared: 1 year; no figure yet: 13 years; 3 years before our research starts. 
A-level results, 1990 to 2026. Figure found: 27 years; found, not compared: 6 years; no figure yet: 4 years. 
A-level results, 1990 to 2026. Figure found: 21 years; found, not compared: 13 years; 3 years before our research starts. 
A-level results, 1990 to 2026. Figure found: 35 years; no figure yet: 2 years. 
A-level results, 1990 to 2026. Figure found: 34 years; found, not compared: 1 year; not researched yet: 2 years. 
A-level results, 1990 to 2026. Figure found: 32 years; found, not compared: 3 years; 2 years before our research starts. 
A-level results, 1990 to 2026. Figure found: 35 years; no figure yet: 2 years. 
A-level results, 1990 to 2026. Figure found: 22 years; no figure yet: 12 years; not researched yet: 3 years. 
A-level results, 1990 to 2026. Figure found: 32 years; no figure yet: 3 years; 2 years before our research starts. 
A-level results, 1990 to 2026. Figure found: 34 years; found, not compared: 1 year; not researched yet: 2 years. 
A-level results, 1990 to 2026. Figure found: 36 years; no figure yet: 1 year. 
A-level results, 1990 to 2026. Figure found: 22 years; no figure yet: 13 years; not researched yet: 2 years. 
A-level results, 1990 to 2026. Figure found: 31 years; no figure yet: 6 years. The school directory helps you narrow the list and see which years and subjects each profile covers.
A school comes into focus through particulars: the subjects a pupil can pursue, a teacher’s expectations, the help available when work gets difficult. We read the published accounts of sixth-form life alongside the results, so that you can look more closely at the schools you are considering and arrive at a visit with something worth asking.
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The education behind the results
KCS Wimbledon and St Paul’s describe different ways of studying, living and taking on independent work. Those differences deserve as much attention as a headline result. Read what each school asks of its pupils, then consider the subjects and ordinary week your child would take on.
King’s describes an A-level programme that begins with four subjects in Year 12 and continues with at least three in Year 13. The King’s Essay gives pupils a project of their own in Year 12. IB pupils keep six subjects: three at Higher Level and three at Standard Level, alongside Theory of Knowledge, an Extended Essay and CAS. The curriculum table sets out the restrictions on choices within each group and level.
St Paul’s describes pupils taking four or five subjects in Year 12, with some dropping a subject at the end of the year. The pages we checked do not set out which choices fit together in the timetable, so a pupil’s particular combination still needs to be confirmed. For the EPQ, a pupil works with an academic supervisor on a dissertation, investigation, performance or artefact. The school describes Engineering separately as a course based on the Edexcel Level 3 Extended Project.
King’s describes games and a two-year Personal Development Programme alongside academic study. To understand what pupils gain from them, a family needs to look beyond that description.
St Paul’s describes daily meetings in mixed-age tutor groups, with community service and academic enrichment on Fridays. That account gives a family a pattern to ask pupils about: how do they join in, and what do they make of those parts of the week?
Girls and boys can join the sixth form. King’s has no boarding and does not sponsor Child Student visas, so families need a suitable arrangement for living and travelling to school.
The school describes day places, full boarding and weekly boarding from Sunday evening to Friday afternoon. Flexi boarding for one to four nights depends on space being available.
Start with the subjects your child wants to pursue. Choose an entry year and academic route, then read what the schools have published about the subjects that matter to your child. Ask each school to confirm the programme for the intended intake.
Work through this choiceWhat should a family make of the A* gap?Read the complete account and sourcesFrom the complete public example · reviewed 1 Oct 2026. The sources describe the school’s arrangements for the stated years. A visit can help you explore how those work in practice; ask the school to confirm the programme for your child’s intake.
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One summer’s results rarely tell the whole story. Choose a school and look back through the years. Where pupils took different qualifications, the chart explains how their grades are compared; you can open the original results beside it.
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2026Eton, Windsor, Berkshire
Summer results
2026
38.3%
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349 of 911 A-level entries at A*.
Eton printed 38.3%, the same figure.
A level: A* 349 · A 335 · B 173 · C 40 · D 6 · E 6 · U 2
2026 results, as each school publishes them.
A* or equivalent: A-level A* and Pre-U D1 and D2, as a share of all entries.
These percentages count examination entries, so one pupil contributes several grades. They show how results have changed, but cannot tell you how much of that change came from teaching or from the pupils admitted.
Compare two schools →| Year | Figure | What we know |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 41.9% | Compared |
| 2011 | 42.7% | Compared |
| 2012 | 38.0% | Compared |
| 2013 | 40.1% | Compared |
| 2014 | 45.6% | Compared |
| 2015 | 36.5% | Compared |
| 2016 | 43.5% | Compared |
| 2017 | 46.0% | Compared |
| 2018 | 41.7% | Compared |
| 2019 | 41.6% | Compared |
| 2020 | 49.2% | Set by teachers. Grades were set by teachers in 2020, not by exams. We show the figure but don’t compare it. |
| 2021 | No figure | No figure. Grades were set by teachers. We don’t yet have a whole-school A-level figure for 2021 that we can rely on, and Eton printed no Pre-U grade shares. |
| 2022 | 57.0% | Compared |
| 2023 | 44.8% | Compared |
| 2024 | 38.7% | Compared |
| 2025 | 40.2% | Compared |
| 2026 | 38.3% | Compared |
Worked example
On A-level grades at A*, St Paul’s was ahead in 2010–12 and Westminster in 2014–16. A headline drawn from either period would tell only part of the story. Put them together, and the question becomes whether either school stays ahead.
St Paul’s
6.5 percentage points
St Paul’s ahead on A-level grades at A*
Our calculation
Years compared: 2010, 2011 and 2012.
Typical gap: the middle of the yearly gaps between St Paul’s and Westminster. From 6 recorded figures. How we calculated this
St Paul’s. St Paul’s ahead on A-level grades at A*: 6.5 pp (3 shared years), 2010–12. Status: Our calculation. Source: St Paul’s and Westminster, as each school published. The Schools Record, https://theschoolsrecord.co.uk/check/?schools=st-pauls%2Cwestminster&metric=a_level_astar&from=2010&to=2025&minimum=3&claim=typical&method=period-check-v1
Westminster
3.9 percentage points
Westminster ahead on A-level grades at A*
Our calculation
Years compared: 2014, 2015 and 2016.
Typical gap: the middle of the yearly gaps between St Paul’s and Westminster. From 6 recorded figures. How we calculated this
Westminster. Westminster ahead on A-level grades at A*: 3.9 pp (3 shared years), 2014–16. Status: Our calculation. Source: St Paul’s and Westminster, as each school published. The Schools Record, https://theschoolsrecord.co.uk/check/?schools=st-pauls%2Cwestminster&metric=a_level_astar&from=2010&to=2025&minimum=3&claim=typical&method=period-check-v1
The gaps are calculated from the grades each school published. See the example
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Then ask about the work your child would actually do: the subjects that excite them, the demands they would meet and the support they would have. Published results can sharpen those questions. They cannot predict your child’s grades or chances of admission.
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