King’s College School, Wimbledon · sixth form · summer 2010

King’s College School, Wimbledon, sixth form 2010: 42.5% at A* or equivalent

Compared

42.5%

A* or equivalent, all sixth-form exams · Comparable figure · IB Higher Level only this year, so it is the school’s own figure

The school’s figure: 42.5% · The school’s combined figure, as published. One exam system this year, so the comparable figure is the school’s own figure.

Grades as sat

IB HL: 42.5

This year’s exams: IB Higher Level only.

We know because the school says so.

Three figures for each grade band, never merged
Grade band	Comparable figure (our calculation)	The school’s figure (as the school published it)	Original grades
A*–A or equivalent, all sixth-form examsCambridge aligns Pre-U D3 with A and UCAS scores IB 6 like an A.	84.3%	The same: it is the school’s own figure	IB Higher Level: 7–6 84.3%
A* or equivalent, all sixth-form exams	42.5%	The same: it is the school’s own figure	IB Higher Level: 7 42.5%
A*–B or equivalent, all sixth-form examsIB Higher Level 5 counts as B by the schools’ convention; UCAS scores it like a C.	96.6%	The same: it is the school’s own figure	IB Higher Level: 7–5 96.6%

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.

A*–A or equiv.: IB Higher Level 7–6 84.3%, as printed
A* or equiv.: IB Higher Level 7 42.5%, as printed
A*–B or equiv.: IB Higher Level 7–5 96.6%, as printed

The records it is built from

IB Higher Level: King’s College School, Wimbledon: A-level and IB published crosswalk, 2010

Cite this figure

King’s College School, Wimbledon, 2010, A* or equivalent, all sixth-form exams: 42.5% (comparable figure, our calculation; IB Higher Level 7 42.5%, as printed). Method harm-v1. Records: fig:kcs_combined_alevel_ib:6. The Schools Record, https://theschoolsrecord.co.uk/evidence/harm:v1:kcs:2010:sixth-form/

Record details

Record ID harm:v1:kcs:2010: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.: basis: IB Higher Level only this year, so this is the school’s own figure
A*–A or equiv.: precision: 1 decimal place, as printed
A* or equiv.: basis: IB Higher Level only this year, so this is the school’s own figure
A* or equiv.: precision: 1 decimal place, as printed
A*–B or equiv.: basis: IB Higher Level only this year, so this is the school’s own figure
A*–B or equiv.: precision: 1 decimal place, as printed
IB Higher Level: entries: unknown (no entry count printed)
IB Higher Level: note: KCS’s own grade counts for 2010 (186, 183 and 54 of 438 at 7, 6 and 5) give 84.2% at 7–6; KCS printed 84.3%, which no whole number of 438 entries gives (84.247% rounded twice). In a one-system year the comparable figure is the school’s printed figure, so KCS’s figures are shown; the difference is a source inconsistency, not corrected.
Which exams were sat: evidence: A level: 1 school or ISC record (e.g. fig:kcs_combined_alevel_ib:6)
Which exams were sat: evidence: IB HL: 3 school or ISC records (e.g. fig:kcs_combined_alevel_ib:6)
Which exams were sat: note: KCS’s own records give 0 A-level takers and call 2014 “the last all-IB year”.
The school’s figure: The school’s combined figure, as published (fig:kcs_combined_alevel_ib:6)

Source references

FB13 · Our research file (not public). A compilation we made of the schools’ and universities’ full tables, for our own research. (as recorded: “controlling full-table base”)
FB146 · Our research file (not public). A companion file we made for seven schools, with our list of archived copies of their web pages. (as recorded: “latest seven-school companion and Wayback/destination lock”)
public-source-d33709b36604f2d2 · KCS Wimbledon · A-level and IB results · 2017–2025 chronological pack. King’s College School’s own A-level and IB results tables for 2017–2025, gathered in date order for our research. · controlling school-result tables for modern A-level pathway counts, actual A-level takers, A-level entries, IB candidates, IB Higher-Level entries and the unique combined cohort
KCS_OKC_2003 · Old King's Club Newsletter 103 · Summer 2003 examination results · primary contemporary KCS report: A-level, IB, combined Upper Sixth and GCSE candidate counts plus A-level/GCSE subject-exam totals
KCS_OKC_2004 · Old King's Club Newsletter 105 · Summer 2004 examination results · primary contemporary KCS report: A-level, IB, combined Upper Sixth and GCSE candidate counts plus A-level/GCSE subject-exam totals
KCS_FT_2007 · Financial Times · Top 1,000 Schools · 8 March 2008. A printed newspaper table. We haven’t found a public copy online; libraries that keep the Financial Times’s back issues, such as the British Library, can help trace it. · secondary league table for 2007 results: 44 A-level-only pupils, 111 IB candidates and 155 combined candidates
KCS_FT_2009 · Financial Times · Independent schools · 12 September 2009. A printed newspaper table. We haven’t found a public copy online; libraries that keep the Financial Times’s back issues, such as the British Library, can help trace it. · secondary league table: 135 IB candidates and no A-level candidates
KCS_FT_2011 · Financial Times Schools Special · 10 September 2011. A printed newspaper table. We haven’t found a public copy online; libraries that keep the Financial Times’s back issues, such as the British Library, can help trace it. · secondary league table: 145 IB candidates and 436 printed IB Higher-Level entries; the printed entry total is retained despite exceeding three per candidate by one
public-source-ac809a47570cbcf0 · KCS Wimbledon · legacy sixth-form cohort report. A summary we compiled from earlier secondary reports, used only for the figures it is labelled against. · secondary synthesis used only for explicitly labelled 2008 lower-bound, 2014, 2016 and 2017 cohort facts where the underlying primary file is not held

Method and version

Method: harm-v1 1.0.0
Inputs digest: sha256:0c6460c865829b8525e3ef3d85a2fa10263a621abbb0db109b2fc00f3b488859
Qualification mix: IB HL (school-statement)

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