St Paul’s School, GCSE 2022: 93.9% at top grades (A* or 9–8)

Compared

93.9%

GCSE top grades (A* or 9–8) · Comparable figure · 9–1 GCSEs only this year; the school’s own figure is used

The school’s figure: 93.9%. The same figure: it is the school’s own.

The original grades

9–1: 93.9. Subjects and grades

This year’s exams: 9–1 GCSEs 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
GCSE high grades (A*–A or 9–7)Ofqual aligned the bottom of grade 7 with the bottom of the old A.	99.1%	The same: it is the school’s own figure	GCSE 9–1: 9–7 99.1%
GCSE top grades (A* or 9–8)A* or 9–8 is a convention: grade 9 is rarer than A* was.	93.9%	The same: it is the school’s own figure	GCSE 9–1: 9–8 93.9%
GCSE C/4 or better (A*–C or 9–4)	No figureThe school’s own tables don’t give a comparable figure for this year.	No combined figure from the school	GCSE 9–1: 9–4
GCSE grade 9 (9–1 entries only)	76.2%	The same: it is the school’s own figure	GCSE 9–1: 9 76.2%

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.

High grades: GCSE/IGCSE 9–1 9–7 99.1%, as printed
Top grades: GCSE/IGCSE 9–1 9–8 93.9%, as printed
Grade 9: GCSE/IGCSE 9–1 9 76.2%, as printed

The results used in the calculation

9–1: St Paul’s School: GCSE and IGCSE results, 2022, 9-1

More about 2022: grading that year

Grades in 2022 were set at a midpoint between summer 2019 and 2021, on Ofqual’s account. Ofqual’s account

Cite this figure

St Paul’s School, 2022, GCSE top grades (A* or 9–8): 93.9% (comparable figure, our calculation; GCSE/IGCSE 9–1 9–8 93.9%, as printed). Method harm-v1. Records: fig:st_pauls_gcse:23. The Schools Record, https://theschoolsrecord.co.uk/evidence/harm:v1:st-pauls:2022:gcse/

Record details

Record ID harm:v1:st-pauls:2022:gcse. Quote it if you report a problem.

As recorded

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

High grades: basis: GCSE/IGCSE 9–1 only this year, so this is the school’s own figure
High grades: precision: 1 decimal place, as printed
Top grades: basis: GCSE/IGCSE 9–1 only this year, so this is the school’s own figure
Top grades: precision: 1 decimal place, as printed
C/4+: reason: GCSE/IGCSE 9–1: GCSE/IGCSE 9–1 9–4 not printed
C/4+: reason codes: comparable figure not computable
Grade 9: basis: GCSE/IGCSE 9–1 only this year, so this is the school’s own figure
Grade 9: precision: 1 decimal place, as printed
9–1: entries: unknown (no entry count printed)
Which exams were sat: evidence: 9-1: 2 school or ISC records (e.g. fig:st_pauls_gcse:23); 12 DfE rows (e.g. research:st-pauls:2022:dfe-ks4-institution-results-30894)
Which exams were sat: evidence: School statement: GCSE results page, 2022 table of 24 subjects on 9–1 (https://web.archive.org/web/20230329164707/https://www.stpaulsschool.org.uk/academic/academic-13-16/exam-results-information/gcse-results/)
Which exams were sat: note: The school’s 2022 GCSE results page carries one table: 24 subjects, the IGCSEs included, graded 9 to 1 with no letter-graded line. Its 1,975 grades reproduce the school’s own headline figures; the page prints no total, so its coverage rests on it being the school’s full GCSE statement for the year.

Source references

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”)
SPS_2002_EXAM_CC · St Paul’s School · 2002 examination results · Common Crawl recovery · first-party page recovered at ARC offset 69,280,402; supplies 92.5% GCSE A*/A and 92.5% A-level A/B school headlines
public-source-f96086ea14f0d1c7 · St Paul’s School · GCSE summary 2005–09 · Wayback · direct school five-year final grid; A*, A*–A and A*–B grade-entry shares

Method and version

Method: harm-v1 1.0.0
Inputs digest: sha256:b7cefa815459dc2e3ea52c1532b56ac7a8a1376d382d7cf1a91cb71611e2c584
Qualification mix: 9-1 (school-statement)

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