King’s College School, Wimbledon, sixth form 2012: 50.9% at A* or equivalent

Compared

50.9%

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

The school’s figure: 50.9% · The school’s combined figure, as published. One exam system this year, so the comparable figure is the school’s own figure.

The original grades

IB HL: 50.9. Subjects and grades

This year’s exams: IB Higher Level only.

We know because the school says so.

The comparison, the school’s headline and the original grades
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.	89.5%	The same: it is the school’s own figure	IB Higher Level: 7–6 89.5%
A* or equivalent, all sixth-form exams	50.9%	The same: it is the school’s own figure	IB Higher Level: 7 50.9%
A*–B or equivalent, all sixth-form examsIB Higher Level 5 counts as B by the schools’ convention; UCAS scores it like a C.	98.6%	The same: it is the school’s own figure	IB Higher Level: 7–5 98.6%

How the figure is calculated

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 89.5%, as printed
A* or equiv.: IB Higher Level 7 50.9%, as printed
A*–B or equiv.: IB Higher Level 7–5 98.6%, as printed

The results used in the calculation

IB Higher Level: King’s College School, Wimbledon: A-level and IB published crosswalk, 2012

Cite this figure

King’s College School, Wimbledon, 2012, A* or equivalent, all sixth-form exams: 50.9% (comparable figure, our calculation; IB Higher Level 7 50.9%, as printed). Method harm-v1. Records: fig:kcs_combined_alevel_ib:8. The Schools Record, https://theschoolsrecord.co.uk/evidence/harm:v1:kcs:2012:sixth-form/

Record details

Record ID harm:v1:kcs:2012: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 table for 2012 is used, as in 2010 and 2011. The ISC return’s IB Higher Level counts give slightly different shares; they stay on record.
Which exams were sat: evidence: A level: 3 school or ISC records (e.g. fig:kcs_combined_alevel_ib:8); 3 DfE rows (e.g. research:kcs:2012:dfe-ks5-a-level-4820)
Which exams were sat: evidence: IB HL: 7 school or ISC records (e.g. fig:kcs_combined_alevel_ib:8); 35 DfE rows (e.g. research:kcs:2012:dfe-ks5-ib-components-219)
Which exams were sat: note: KCS’s own records give an all-IB year and call 2014 “the last all-IB year” (190 IB candidates that year). DfE’s KS5 tables list 4 GCE A-level entries at KCS in 2012; they are not part of the cohort’s published results, so the year is IB only.
The school’s figure: The school’s combined figure, as published (fig:kcs_combined_alevel_ib:8)

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: sha256:4ae381d05e54c33fe45edb477233389ae09f5c6fc961535430004d00c9a65a3b
Qualification mix: IB HL (school-statement)

King’s College School, Wimbledon: exam results · How comparable figures work