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Summer 2026: A-level results found for 19 of 19 schools, GCSE for 18 · last checked 11 Nov 2026

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2026

  1. · Latest changes to the record

    Changes in this edition: 56 new results tables, comparable figures for 1 school and 387 records changed

    This summary covers changes included in the current edition that do not yet have a separate release note. The date shown is when this edition was prepared.

    School by school:

    Technical note: data version 7be200b8cae2

  2. · New essay

    Oxford said no. Cambridge said yes.

    An English applicant’s correspondence brings teachers’ confidence, Oxford interview feedback and a later Cambridge offer into the same account. The essay follows the different readings of the applicant and the limits of what the surviving letters can explain.

  3. · Figures checked

    Winchester: 1 figure checked against its own documents

    Winchester College: corrected against the original publication (1). Each record keeps its history in its revision log.

    • Pre-U 2010, 2010 · Corrected against the original publication (correction WIN2010-NATIVE-MODEL-RESTORATION): Restore the previously published 2010 Pre-U reconstruction and its original numerical fields as explicitly modelled estimates. Retain the original school narrative and scoped FT/DfE evidence.

  4. · Figures checked

    Eton: 5 figures checked against its own documents

    Eton College: revised by the school (5). Each record keeps its history in its revision log.

    • A-level, 2011 · Revised by the school (correction C37): Eton’s definitive 2011 A-level table, printed in its Admissions Booklet (December 2012), gives 41.1% A* and 83.7% A*–A of 812 entries; its earlier statistics sheet’s subject rows add up to 41.41% and 83.68% of 809.
    • A-level, 2012 · Revised by the school (correction C39): Eton’s definitive 2012 A-level table, printed in its Admissions Brochure 2013–14, gives 35.7% A* and 82.2% A*–A of 803 entries; its earlier statistics sheet gave 35.7% and 82.0% of 801.
    • A-level, 2014 · Revised by the school (correction C41): Eton’s definitive 2014 A-level table, printed in its Admissions Booklet 2015–2016, gives 42.7% A* and 82.9% A*–A of 766 entries; its earlier statistics sheet gave 42.6% and 82.8% of 766.
    • GCSE/IGCSE, 2011 · Revised by the school (correction C38): Eton’s definitive 2011 GCSE/IGCSE table, printed in its Admissions Booklet (December 2012), gives 71.0% A* and 94.2% A*–A of 2,737 entries; its earlier statistics sheet’s subject rows add up to 70.86% and 94.21% of 2,745.
    • GCSE/IGCSE, 2012 · Revised by the school (correction C40): Eton’s definitive 2012 GCSE/IGCSE table, printed in its Admissions Brochure 2013–14, gives 76.2% A* and 96.0% A*–A of 2,778 entries; its earlier statistics sheet gave 76.2% and 95.9% of 2,778.

  5. · Figures checked

    Eton: 4 figures checked against its own documents

    Eton College: consistent at the published precision (2) and different groups counted (2). Each record keeps its history in its revision log.

    • A-level results, 2017 · Consistent at the published precision: Eton’s 2016/17 annual report prints 42% A* and 80% A*–A for A level; its 2017 A2 table gives 42.1% and 79.5%, the same figures before rounding.
    • A-level results, 2017 · Different groups counted: Eton’s 2017 A-level A*–B share is 93.0%, from its A2 table. The 98% its 2016/17 annual report prints beside A*–B is the table’s A*–C share (98.2%), rounded.
    • A-level results, 2020 · Different groups counted: Eton’s 2020 figures of 49.2 / 83.3 / 97.4% count A-level and Pre-U entries together (868 entries), not A level alone.
    • A-level results, 2025 · Consistent at the published precision: Eton’s 2025 A-level table gives 95.09% A*–B; its 2024/25 annual report prints 95.0%, the same figure cut to one decimal place.

  6. · Design and navigation

    School results over time, clearer comparisons and destinations

    The home archive and school profiles now make results easier to follow across years and qualifications. Comparisons, university destinations, questions and the school directory share a clearer reading layout. Every figure keeps its year, definition and source.

    Results over time. The home archive now charts one chosen school’s results. Switch school, qualification stage or grade band, then choose a year directly or move through the available years. The selected year stays in place when you change the measure. The archive’s coverage remains available in a disclosure.

    Following a school. School profiles offer the same seven grade bands and direct year controls. Scrolling no longer changes the selected year. The year’s detail explains whether a figure was copied from the school’s table, harmonised across qualifications or reconstructed from rounded percentages, with its original grades, arithmetic and sources.

    Comparing qualifications. The methodology and qualification explainers now lead with the harmonised comparison and show the full Pre-U and IB Higher Level mappings. GCSE guidance explains the 7/A and 4/C comparison points, the approximate top-grade band, and what Ofqual’s transition modelling can tell us. The school’s own headline, TSR’s calculation and the native grades keep their separate labels. This changes the explanation and controls, not the recorded or calculated results.

    Comparisons. School figures sit in rows. Charts distinguish schools by marker shape and line pattern, while a coloured rule beneath an exam chart identifies the exam eras. University charts do not carry exam-era colours. The calculations and verdicts are unchanged.

    University destinations. School pages show Oxford and Cambridge separately. Where dated destination records name other universities, the page also shows up to three examples in alphabetical order. Offers and places taken up remain separate, and overlapping publications are never added together.

    Finding and reading. The directory puts school names and record coverage together, with the same filters and shortlist controls. Questions lead with their answer, followed by the publication details and supporting figures. Search, practical discovery and the supporting pages use the same paper and serif typography.

    Technical note: Wave 4, Stage 3 · published records, comparable calculations and verdict rules unchanged.

  7. · Figures checked

    Winchester: 4 figures checked against its own documents

    Winchester College: corrected against the original publication (4). Each record keeps its history in its revision log.

    • A-level results, 2022 · Corrected against the original publication (correction C33): Winchester's original 2022 A-level table restores the 477-entry denominator, lower cumulative bands and explicit A-level qualification.
    • A-level results, 2023 · Corrected against the original publication (correction C34): Winchester's original 2023 A-level table restores the 481-entry denominator and the complete final cumulative ladder.
    • GCSE results, 2022 · Corrected against the original publication (correction C35): Winchester's original 2022 GCSE table restores the 9–6, 9–5 and 9–4 cumulative bands; 9–4 is 99.5%, not “99.5%+”.
    • GCSE results, 2023 · Corrected against the original publication (correction C36): Winchester's original 2023 IGCSE/GCSE table replaces the incomplete secondary headline row with its 1,337-entry primary-source denominator and complete cumulative ladder.

  8. · Answers first, one verdict scale, easier to find your way

    Every page now opens on its answer

    School, record and university pages now start with the figure you came for, what it counts and a link to the school’s own document. Compare and Test a claim grade every answer on one published scale, and search finds schools by the names parents use. No figure has changed; one Eton figure has a clearer label, explained below.

    School pages. Each profile opens with the latest A-level and GCSE figures: the year, what each one counts and a link to the school’s own document. A line under the name says what’s latest, when the next tables are expected and when we last checked. Every profile shows how pupils join, with a dated link to the school’s admissions page, lists questions to take to the school, and links to the school’s own results, destinations and admissions pages with the date we checked each one.

    Record pages. A record’s heading names the school and the figure, for example “Eton College, A level 2024: 38.7% of 935 entries graded A*”, and the original opens in one tap. A university round names its offers and applications. What each of our checks noted, such as when a printed “<3” means fewer than three, is kept in plain words; codes and file names are under Record details.

    Comparable figures. Where a school mixes exam systems, our comparable figure has its own page for each year, beside the school’s own figure and the original grades, and is always labelled as our calculation. Where A*–B includes the IB, the page says that a Higher Level 5 counts as B by the schools’ convention; UCAS scores it like a C.

    One verdict scale. Compare and Test a claim now word every verdict on one scale, printed with its thresholds on the method page. Too close to call: a typical gap under 1 point. Depends on the years: at least a quarter of the tested year ranges point the other way. Holds up, narrowly: 1 to under 3 points, with three-quarters of the ranges agreeing. Holds up: 3 points or more, with nine in ten agreeing. With fewer than three shared years you see the figures and no verdict. Where a comparable figure is known only to within a school’s rounding, it stays a range, including in the wording you can copy.

    Compare and results tables. Compare opens on two schools with plenty of shared years; when two schools share no year, it says which years each has and which measures they can be compared on. Exam results open with charts of the school’s results over time, with comparable figures marked as our calculation. Tables line up on a phone, state the unit once in each heading, link each year to its source and number their notes, and a figure the school re-issued is still marked “Revised by the school”. Subject-by-subject tables have their own page for each qualification and year.

    Finding your way. The header groups the site into Explore and Tools, with Search, your shortlist and For advisers beside them. On a phone, Menu opens a full sheet, and on a school’s pages it opens on that school. Search (press / or ⌘K) finds schools by the names parents use, such as “KCS”, as well as universities, questions, glossary terms and the comparable measures. Your shortlist changes only when you change it: a shared link offers “Use as my shortlist” or “Keep mine”. Check a figure lists results newest first, each headed as its record page is, and a new glossary explains the words the figures use.

    Universities and questions. The Oxford and Cambridge page now includes lists that give Oxford and Cambridge as one combined count, so Eton, St Mary’s Ascot and Downe House show their newest list of where leavers went. University pages give the latest year first. The Questions keep every limit they had, in plainer words.

    About, advisers and corrections. About says who is responsible for the record, how it is funded, how corrections work and how a school can reply. The paid service for advisers is now called Shortlist Review; it isn’t open yet, and the proposed fee is £600. The corrections page opens on what the corrections add up to, and this page now leads with what changed for you.

    One figure with a clearer label. Eton’s 2025 GCSE figure now reads 61.9% at grade 9. It used to show as “61.9 · top band”, with no unit. The figure itself is unchanged, and correction C32 records the new wording. No other figure was changed, relabelled or removed.

    Technical note: data version 7be200b8cae2 · original record unchanged · comparable figures harm-v1 (method 1.0.0, register b0f1a9ac2bce) · verdict scale adopted 23 September 2026 · one owner-approved relabel (E9, correction C32) · no change to any figure.

  9. · Data release

    Comparable figures for 19 schools and 1 record changed

    Comparable figures published for all 19 schools, beside each school’s own figures, and Eton’s 2025 GCSE figure labelled as the share of entries at grade 9 (correction C32).

    School by school:

    Technical note: data version 7be200b8cae2 · record state 2f97d76ef261

  10. · Corrections, comparisons and a new home

    Two Eton corrections, more years to compare and a much faster site

    Two of Eton’s A-level figures now follow the school’s own signed tables, a fix to the comparison rules brings back years that should never have been left out, and the site is ready to move to its own, much faster address. No other figure has changed.

    Eton, A levels 2024. The A* share now reads 38.7% (362 of 935 grades), up from 38.6%. Eton re-signed its results table on 22 November 2024 after one Music Technology grade was raised from A to A*. The earlier table, signed on 16 October 2024, stays on the record, marked as replaced, and correction C30 replaces C11, which had followed that earlier table.

    Eton, A levels 2023. The 44.8% A*, 80.2% A*–A and 95.4% A*–B we showed as A-level results count Eton’s A-level and Pre-U grades together (930 grades): they reproduce exactly when the school’s two signed tables are added up. They are now labelled as combined, and comparisons use Eton’s A-level table on its own: 43.7%, 80.1% and 95.3% of 870 grades (correction C31).

    More years you can compare. A publication that prints nothing for a grade band no longer knocks that year out of comparisons for the band. Nothing is estimated and no figure changed; years that were wrongly left out are simply back. Eton’s A-level A* now has 6 comparable years (it had 2), A*–A 4 (2) and A*–B 6 (3); St Paul’s A*–A has 14 (12) and A*–B 15 (12); King’s College School’s A*–A and A*–B have 9 each (8); Wycombe Abbey’s GCSE grade 9 has 2 (1); and Eton’s letter-grade GCSE A*–A and A*–B have 6 each (5). No school lost a year, and school profiles no longer count a year as both comparable and ‘sources differ’.

    Verdicts no stronger than the evidence. The claim checker and the compare page now grade every verdict by one published rule: at least three matched years, a typical gap of at least 1 percentage point, and at least 60% of the tested periods pointing the same way. Anything weaker is called marginal, and with fewer than three years you see the values without a verdict. St Paul’s against Westminster on the A* share, 2010–2025, now reads ‘Marginally higher (0.7 pp); the direction depends on the years chosen’. Gaps are written one way throughout, to one decimal place, and each school keeps its own chart colour rather than green for ‘ahead’.

    Tell us when a figure looks wrong. Every figure’s own page has ‘Report a problem with this figure’, which opens an email to our corrections address with the record already filled in. The corrections page now dates every entry and says which correction replaced which. About says who publishes the record and how quickly we reply, the privacy notice is rewritten for the new address, and a new accessibility statement lists every problem we know about and what we are doing about it.

    A faster home of its own. The record is moving from its earlier address to theschoolsrecord.co.uk, served from Cloudflare’s network. On a slow phone connection a page now appears in about a second, where it could take more than 20 seconds before. Every page has one permanent address, a shared link shows a preview card, and links to the earlier address will lead straight to the same page.

    Easier to use. Buttons and chart focus rings stay clearly visible in the dark theme; form fields are at least 16 px, so phones no longer zoom in; no text is smaller than 12 px; after ‘Check the claim’ or ‘Update comparison’ the page takes you to the answer; charts are announced as described groups with their source links intact; the phone menu sits above the compare editor and closes with Escape or a tap outside it; and numbers are set in lining figures, so columns line up.

    The opening emblem. It now appears only when a visit starts on the home page, never when a link takes you straight to a school, a record or a tool, and never if your device is set to reduce motion. Any tap, click, scroll or key press dismisses it at once, and the tap that dismisses it no longer follows a link hidden beneath it.

    Technical note: data version 7be200b8cae2 · original record unchanged · research-resolutions-2026-09 (resolution-policy-v1, resolutions c51e747cb78e) · comparison model 0f1cca6c8660 · two changes to figures, corrections C30 and C31.

  11. · Figures checked

    Eton: 7 figures checked against its own documents

    Eton College: sources differ (1), consistent at the published precision (2), different groups counted (1), revised by the school (2) and relabelled on the owner’s decision (1). Each record keeps its history in its revision log.

    • A-level results, 2022 · Sources differ: Eton’s 2022 A-level table gives 83.6% A*–A; its 2021/22 annual report prints 83.5%. No rounding or population difference explains the gap.
    • A-level results, 2022 · Consistent at the published precision: Eton’s 2021/22 annual report and its 2022 A-level table both print 95.4% A*–B.
    • A-level results, 2023 · Different groups counted (correction C31): Eton’s 2023 figures of 44.8 / 80.2 / 95.4% count A-level and Pre-U entries together (930 entries), not A level alone.
    • A-level results, 2024 · Revised by the school (correction C30): Eton re-signed its 2024 A-level table on 22 Nov 2024 after one Music Technology grade was raised from A to A*, so the A* share is 38.7%, not 38.6%.
    • A-level results, 2025 · Consistent at the published precision: Eton’s 2024/25 annual report and its 2025 A-level table both print 78.2% A*–A.
    • GCSE and IGCSE results, 2024 · Revised by the school: Eton re-signed its 2024 GCSE table on 22 Nov 2024 after one Classical Civilisation grade moved from 5 to 6; no cumulative band shown here changed.
    • GCSE and IGCSE results, 2025 · Relabelled on the owner’s decision (correction C32): Eton’s 2025 GCSE figure of 61.9 is the share of its 2,756 GCSE and IGCSE entries graded 9, so it now reads 61.9% at grade 9. The value is unchanged.

  12. · Research questions

    Seventeen Research questions

    Research questions is a new section of short answers. Each starts with its answer and links every figure it uses to the record behind it. The seventeen so far ask who is counted in a school percentage, what a top-grade share leaves out, why published Oxford totals differ and what should happen when publications disagree, with answers about Eton, King’s College School, St Paul’s, Westminster and Winchester.

    Answers that draw on school histories, inspections or alumni publications say so, and keep those sources separate from the published results.

    Technical note: live publication 5d41308362bf, checked on 22 September 2026 · data baseline 818c7c296fed · original record unchanged.

  13. · Your shortlist

    Your shortlist follows you from page to page

    A bar now carries up to five schools, the measure, the years and an optional question across the site, so a comparison you start on one school’s profile carries on to the next page. It is kept in this browser only. A link you share carries the schools, measure, years and question, but never the notes in a saved comparison.

    Technical note: publication ed46c1f1e975 · data baseline 818c7c296fed · no change to any figure.

  14. · Theme

    Choose a light or dark theme

    A dark theme, added on 17 September and following your device setting, now has a switch in the header. Your choice is remembered in this browser and applied before the page appears. The chart colours were rebuilt for both themes and checked for colour-blind readers.

    The list of universities is now a compact index of all 130, still searchable and still saying how many records name each one.

    Technical note: publications 83de15a7143c (17 September) and 6eccc2d5a13f (18 September) · data baseline 818c7c296fed · no change to any figure.

  15. · Universities

    A page for every university in the record

    All 130 universities named in the schools’ publications now have their own page; before, only twelve did. A page without a written profile says so, and shows no location or link we don’t have.

    Each school’s university records are now one set, with Oxford and Cambridge, and US and overseas, as views of it, so no record sits at an address you would have to know. Schools and Universities now lead the navigation.

    Technical note: publications 86ef6e8ac3af and f8410023cf7e · data baseline 818c7c296fed · no change to any figure.

  16. · Schools and universities

    Nineteen school profiles and twelve university evidence profiles

    We added eight schools, making nineteen, along with pages for individual universities, credited pictures of each school, searchable lists and clearer Home and back links. A new St Paul’s and KCS Wimbledon example compares checked versions of each school’s publications and explains how far a claim about a shortlist can go.

    The proposed adviser review has a limited scope. Orders stay closed while the seller, tax, payment-receiver and reviewer details are confirmed. We are still recovering older sources, so a profile doesn’t mean every year is covered.

    Technical note: no original figure or identifier changed. New figures, source assessments and differences between publications are recorded separately.

  17. · Four more schools

    Four schools added

    We added Radley College, Harrow School, Latymer Upper School and Godolphin and Latymer School: A level, GCSE and IGCSE, Pre-U and IB Diploma results; Cambridge admissions figures counted by school for 2009–2025; and leavers’ destinations, offers and named destination lists. Each row keeps its source reference, though not every reference leads to a public document we have checked. These records are marked as additions and kept apart from our original compiled record. We haven’t yet found Oxford admissions figures counted by school for these four.

    Technical note: data baseline 818c7c296fed · original record unchanged · extension-2026-09-four-schools added.

  18. · Site rebuild

    Everything the earlier site could do, rebuilt

    The rebuild had left out parts of the earlier site. This release restored searching across the 2,277 records then collected, following figures to public sources, and reading Oxford, Cambridge and US university records for one school or across the collection.

    Admissions information, corrections, differences between publications and tables of published totals also returned, with approved public source links, page titles and share previews. Form acknowledgements were restored in the code but had not yet been confirmed on the live site.

    Technical note: data baseline 818c7c296fed · no change to any figure.

  19. · Charts

    Results by year

    Every row of the school list gained a small chart of one shared measure, like for like; each school page gained a results-by-year section with one panel per grading scale; and the sample report gained the comparison chart. Lines join consecutive published years only, and 2020–21 and the arrival of A* in 2010 stay marked.

    Technical note: data baseline 818c7c296fed · no change to any figure.

  20. · Site foundations

    Permanent addresses and the checks behind them

    Every page gained a permanent address, and comparisons gained links that could be shared. Images were sized for different screens. Behind the pages, we added checks that the published site matched the underlying record and kept private information separate. The adviser offer and wider quality checks were also included in this release.

    Technical note: data baseline 818c7c296fed · no change to any figure.

  21. · Wording and layout

    Clearer wording and layout

    We improved the home page, the navigation, the wording of comparisons and sources, and the layout on phones, in the earlier version of the site.

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