Who is counted in a school percentage?

Two GCSE percentages can cover different subjects

During a grading transition, a school can publish an all-course headline alongside results for only the subjects using numbered grades. In the held KCS example, the numbered table explicitly covers a subset of the wider examination entry total. Its percentage describes that subset.

The larger headline uses a combined band across the transition. The two percentages therefore should not be treated as rival estimates of one identical school-wide grade share. The inspector retains the coverage description and the separate lettered, numbered and excluded Additional Mathematics entries.

A count of entries is not a count of children

Examination entries count subject results. Candidate counts count people under the source’s definition. A sixth-form pathway count can differ again where qualifications overlap. A useful school comparison needs the population relevant to its question, rather than whichever nearby total is easiest to find.

The comparison rules keep this transition subset out of a strict whole-school numbered-grade comparison. That exclusion preserves the historical example while preventing a narrow subject population from silently representing the whole school.

Destination rates need a matching leaver population

The second example uses the held destination-list denominator and its stored Oxford-plus-Cambridge destination share. It is separate from an offer headline and separate from an examination candidate count. An admissions application total would answer another question again.

Earlier interpretations can go wrong both in the denominator they select and in the story they tell about that denominator. The current evidence record supplies the values here. If the relevant leaver denominator is not held for another year or school, the honest answer is a count with an unknown rate.

Supporting evidence and limits

Open a record to inspect its full definition, publication references and the scope of any checks. A source reference alone does not verify a figure.

1. King’s College School, Wimbledon · 2018 · GCSE results · 2018 · transition

   Transition-scale headline across the wider course population.

   Original-publication checks are recorded for 2 fields. This does not verify every field or every interpretation of the record; inspect the field-specific checks below.

2. King’s College School, Wimbledon · 2018 · GCSE results · 9–1 detail · 2018

   Only the numbered-grade subject subset; not a school-wide replacement. The denominator of the subset percentage.

   Source references or checks are recorded, but verification of this particular figure against the original is incomplete.

3. King’s College School, Wimbledon · 2025 · Leaver destinations · 2025

   Leaver-list places taken up, not offers. The publication’s held share uses its destination-list denominator.

   No adequate source description or original-publication check is presently held in this public record. Any reference keys are retained for further research.

• A transition-scale headline is not a strict numbered-grade series.
• A denominator found in a different publication is not presumed to match the numerator.