Downe House · sixth form · summer 2023

Downe House: comparable sixth form figures, 2023

Qualification only

No figure

A* or equivalent, all sixth-form exams · Comparable figure · our calculation

Downe House reported 27% at A* for 2023 without an A-level entry count. Government records also show Pre-U that year, but we lack a whole-school Pre-U figure, so the results cannot be combined.

Grades as sat

A level: 27. Subjects and grades

Pre-U: no full grade table in this record

This year’s exams: A levels and Pre-U.

We know because the government’s tables confirm it.

Three figures for each grade band, never merged
Grade bandComparable figure (our calculation)The school’s figure (as the school published it)Original grades
A*–A or equivalent, all sixth-form exams No figureThe school’s own tables don’t give a comparable figure for this year. No combined figure from the school A level: A*–A 64%
A* or equivalent, all sixth-form exams No figureThe school’s own tables don’t give a comparable figure for this year. No combined figure from the school A level: A* 27%
A*–B or equivalent, all sixth-form exams No figureThe school’s own tables don’t give a comparable figure for this year. 85% · The school’s combined figure, as publishedThere is no comparable figure to compare it with. A level: A*–B 84%

How we built it

The number of entries at or above the band, across every exam system, divided by all the entries. We never average two percentages.

The records it is built from

Record details

Record ID harm:v1:downe-house:2023:sixth-form. Quote it if you report a problem.

As recorded

The record’s own wording, where this page puts it in plainer words.

A*–A or equiv.: reason
Pre-U: no whole-school Pre-U figure is held
A*–A or equiv.: reason codes
comparable figure not computable
A* or equiv.: reason
Pre-U: no whole-school Pre-U figure is held
A* or equiv.: reason codes
comparable figure not computable
A*–B or equiv.: reason
Pre-U: no whole-school Pre-U figure is held
A*–B or equiv.: reason codes
comparable figure not computable
A level: entries
unknown (no entry count printed)
Pre-U: why no figure
no whole-school Pre-U figure is held
Which exams were sat: evidence
A level: 2 school or ISC records (e.g. new:downe-house:2023:a-level:current-official-article); 51 DfE rows (e.g. new:downe-house:2023:dfe-ks5-institution-aggregated-results-12906)
Which exams were sat: evidence
Pre-U: 1 school or ISC record (e.g. new:downe-house:2023:annual-accounts:combined-a-star-b:2023); 3 DfE rows (e.g. new:downe-house:2023:dfe-ks5-institution-aggregated-results-12932)
The school’s figure
The school’s combined figure, as published (new:downe-house:2023:annual-accounts:combined-a-star-b:2023)

Source references

Method and version

Method
harm-v1 1.0.0
Inputs digest
sha256:1cf566b4f3d93e53d38eb00c90a3bdbda11120ad2c318b2fc63e6d49ba26cee2
Qualification mix
A level, Pre-U (government-table)

Downe House: exam results · How comparable figures work

Source evidenceOpen full record ↗