St Paul’s School · GCSE · summer 2025
St Paul’s School, GCSE 2025: 90.4% at top grades (A* or 9–8)
Compared
90.4%
GCSE top grades (A* or 9–8) · Published annual figure
Published result details
9–1: 90.4%. Subjects and grades
Results used: 9–1 GCSEs.
This year uses the published figure for the qualifications named here.
| Grade band | Published figure (annual series) | The school’s figure (as the school published it) | Figures in the original sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| GCSE high grades (A*–A or 9–7)Ofqual aligned the bottom of grade 7 with the bottom of the old A. | 97.7% (Published numbered GCSE grades; grade 9 covers numbered entries only.) | — | GCSE 9–1: 9–7 97.7% |
| GCSE top grades (A* or 9–8)A* or 9–8 is a convention: grade 9 is rarer than A* was. | 90.4% (Published numbered GCSE grades; grade 9 covers numbered entries only.) | — | GCSE 9–1: 9–8 90.4% |
| 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. | — | — |
| GCSE grade 9 (9–1 entries only) | 68.6% (Published numbered GCSE grades; grade 9 covers numbered entries only.) | — | GCSE 9–1: 9 68.6% |
How this figure is used
We use the percentage as published for this year. The sources below say which qualifications it covers.
- High grades: 9–7 97.7%, as published
- Top grades: 9–8 90.4%, as published
- Grade 9: 9 68.6%, as published
The published records
Cite this figure
St Paul’s School, 2025, GCSE top grades (A* or 9–8): 90.4% (published figure, annual series; 9–8 90.4%, as published). Method harm-v1. Records: fig:st_pauls_gcse:26. The Schools Record, https://theschoolsrecord.co.uk/evidence/harm:v1:st-pauls:2025:gcse/
Record details
Record ID harm:v1:st-pauls:2025:gcse. Quote it if you report a problem.
As recorded
The record’s own wording, where this page puts it in plainer words.
- Publication selection
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- High grades: basis
- Published annual result selected for comparison by the owner on 2026-10-15
- High grades: precision
- Published percentage; no grade count inferred
- Top grades: basis
- Published annual result selected for comparison by the owner on 2026-10-15
- Top grades: precision
- Published percentage; no grade count inferred
- C/4+: reason
- No C/4-or-better percentage is recorded in the selected annual publications.
- C/4+: reason codes
- comparable figure not computable
- Grade 9: basis
- Published annual result selected for comparison by the owner on 2026-10-15
- Grade 9: precision
- Published percentage; no grade count inferred
- 9–1: entries
- unknown (No common entry total supplied)
- Which exams were sat: evidence
- The owner approves the existing recorded annual results for comparison on 15 October 2026, excluding the teacher-assessed years 2020 and 2021. The selected percentages and native grade labels are unchanged; no grade counts or missing bands are inferred. Original publications, alternative versions and the prior qualification mix and calculation remain in the audit trail. This selects the held numbered GCSE percentages. The prior qualification-mix hold remains in the audit trail; selection does not assert that an unheld table of all qualifications has been recovered.
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 headlinespublic-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
sha256:951b75721ca101ae6c681af70bbbb96227259de55bf5a674e947000aa6a493aa- Qualification mix
9-1 (owner-selection)
St Paul’s School: exam results · How comparable figures work