King’s College School, Wimbledon · sixth form · summer 2016

King’s College School, Wimbledon: comparable sixth form figures, 2016

Qualification only

No figure

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

KCS printed its A-level percentages without the number of grades, so they can’t be added to its IB grades.

Grades as sat

A level: 32.3. Subjects and grades

IB HL: 63.3. Subjects and grades

This year’s exams: A levels and IB Higher Level.

We know because the government’s tables confirm it.

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 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 72.9% IB Higher Level: 7–6 88.5% of 218
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* 32.3% IB Higher Level: 7 63.3% of 218
A*–B 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*–B 94.5% IB Higher Level: 7–5 98.2% of 218

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

A level: King’s College School, Wimbledon, A level 2016: 32.3% of entries graded A*
IB Higher Level, 218 entries: King’s College School, Wimbledon: IB, 2016 · King’s College School, Wimbledon: IB 2016, additional cumulative grade percentages, 2016, IB, IB grades 7–1; HL and SL separately identified

Record details

Record ID harm:v1:kcs:2016: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: A level: no entry count printed
A*–A or equiv.: reason codes: comparable figure not computable
A* or equiv.: reason: A level: no entry count printed
A* or equiv.: reason codes: comparable figure not computable
A*–B or equiv.: reason: A level: no entry count printed
A*–B or equiv.: reason codes: comparable figure not computable
A level: entries: unknown (no entry count printed)
IB Higher Level: entries: 218 (entries from research:kcs:2016:gap-audit:isc-annual-ib-higher-derived (its counts reproduce every printed percentage))
Which exams were sat: evidence: A level: 2 school or ISC records (e.g. fig:kcs_alevel_only:9); 17 DfE rows (e.g. research:kcs:2016:dfe-ks5-1-a-level-3740)
Which exams were sat: evidence: IB HL: 8 school or ISC records (e.g. fig:kcs_combined_alevel_ib:5); 27 DfE rows (e.g. research:kcs:2016:dfe-ks5-10-ibo-higher-components-100)

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_1990 · Old King's Club Newsletter 78 · Summer 1990 examination results · primary contemporary KCS report: A-level candidates and entry-grade counts; GCSE candidates split between Upper and Lower Fifth and entry-grade counts
KCS_OKC_1991 · Old King's Club Newsletter 80 · Summer 1991 examination results · primary contemporary KCS report: A-level candidates and printed grade counts/percentages; GCSE candidates split between Upper and Lower Fifth with A–C counts only
KCS_OKC_1995 · Old King's Club Newsletter 87 · Summer 1995 examination results · primary contemporary KCS report: exact A-level candidates/entries and exact GCSE A* count/share; GCSE total denominator not printed
KCS_OKC_1996 · Old King's Club Newsletter 89 · Summer 1996 examination results · primary contemporary KCS report: exact A-level candidates/entries and exact GCSE entry total
KCS_OKC_1997 · Old King's Club Newsletter 91 · Summer 1997 examination results · primary contemporary KCS report: exact A-level and GCSE candidate and subject-entry totals
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
REV_4FD9B3E465A7 · KCS2018 results summary
SIX_AUDIT_6700CE75475DD036 · ISC 2016 examination results — BOYS AND GIRLS · Exact publication checked for the named qualification, year and source population

Method and version

Method: harm-v1 1.0.0
Inputs digest: sha256:1a825941967a45ed3b54baeeb11be56c4dc15430246bad436d57651ac77743ac
Qualification mix: A level, IB HL (government-table)

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