Winchester College, GCSE 2025: 81.7% at top grades (A* or 9–8)

Compared

81.7%

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: 81% · Winchester’s whole-number GCSE headline. Winchester’s headline gives 81%; The Times reports 81.7% to one decimal place.

The original grades

9–1: 81.7. 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.	93.5%	93% · Winchester’s whole-number GCSE headlineWinchester’s headline gives 93%; The Times reports 93.5% to one decimal place.	GCSE 9–1: 9–7 93.5%
GCSE top grades (A* or 9–8)A* or 9–8 is a convention: grade 9 is rarer than A* was.	81.7%	81% · Winchester’s whole-number GCSE headlineWinchester’s headline gives 81%; The Times reports 81.7% to one decimal place.	GCSE 9–1: 9–8 81.7%
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)	50%	The same: it is the school’s own figure	GCSE 9–1: 9 50%

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 93.5%, as printed
Top grades: GCSE/IGCSE 9–1 9–8 81.7%, as printed
Grade 9: GCSE/IGCSE 9–1 9 50%, as printed

The results used in the calculation

9–1: Winchester College, GCSE/IGCSE 2025: 81.7% of entries at grades 9–8 · Winchester College, GCSE/IGCSE 2025: 50% of entries at grade 9

Cite this figure

Winchester College, 2025, GCSE top grades (A* or 9–8): 81.7% (comparable figure, our calculation; GCSE/IGCSE 9–1 9–8 81.7%, as printed). Method harm-v1. Records: research:winchester:2025:times-gcse-version, fig:winchester_gcse:31. The Schools Record, https://theschoolsrecord.co.uk/evidence/harm:v1:winchester:2025:gcse/

Record details

Record ID harm:v1:winchester:2025: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 figure a newspaper table printed for the school
High grades: precision: 1 decimal place, as printed
Top grades: basis: GCSE/IGCSE 9–1 only this year, so this is the figure a newspaper table printed for the school
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 figure a newspaper table printed for the school
Grade 9: precision: 0 decimal places, as printed
9–1: entries: unknown (no entry count printed)
Which exams were sat: evidence: 9-1: Winchester College · 2025 GCSE/IGCSE result record (fig:winchester_gcse:31) · the recorded school figures are 50% at grade 9, 81% at 9–8 and 93% at 9–7.
Which exams were sat: evidence: School statement: Academic Curriculum 2024–25, “9-1 grading at GCSE & IGCSE”; Winchester says Cambridge International IGCSEs account for a significant number of subjects and that it adopted their 9–1 graded exams as soon as they became available (https://www.winchestercollege.org/assets/files/uploads/academic-curriculum-2024-25.pdf).
Which exams were sat: evidence: School record: Winchester’s 2025 results page records 50% grade 9, 81% grades 9–8 and 93% grades 9–7 (https://web.archive.org/web/20250913102708/https://www.winchestercollege.org/learning/exam-results-destinations/).
Which exams were sat: note: Winchester’s Academic Curriculum 2024–25 explicitly describes GCSE and Cambridge International IGCSE grading as 9–1 for the academic year ending with the summer 2025 examinations. Together with the school’s 2025 results-page headline, this confirms the recorded 2025 GCSE/IGCSE bands as a 9–1-only result. No entry total is printed, so no denominator is invented.
The school’s figure: Winchester’s whole-number GCSE headline (fig:winchester_gcse:31)

Source references

WIN_TIMES_2025_TABLE · The Times and The Sunday Times · Winchester College 2025 results table · Secondary 2025 results version at one decimal place; retained separately from the school-published controlling headlines
FB139 · Our research file (not public). Our transcriptions of Winchester’s own results tables. (as recorded: “Winchester primary image-table and analytical lock layer”)
FB139A · Our research file (not public). Our corrections to those transcriptions of Winchester’s results tables. (as recorded: “v13.9 correction addendum”)
FB141 · Our research file (not public). Our corrections to the GCSE figures we transcribed from Winchester’s own tables. (as recorded: “Winchester GCSE primary corrections”)
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”)
WIN_GCSE_HMC_1997 · Winchester College · HMC inspection report · October 1997 · first-party inspection evidence for the 1996 and 1997 whole-school A*/A and A*–B entry shares
WIN_GCSE_2006_ISC · ISC · Year 11 examination results 2006 · official final post-remarks counts: 1,069 entries, including 502 A*, 429 A and 109 B grades
public-source-4535436e09eed115 · DfE · 2011 full GCSE subject file · official subject-level GCSE cumulative bands with lawful small-cell suppression
public-source-65193aecb12514f2 · DfE · 2011 IGCSE subject file · official exact IGCSE cumulative bands; combined with the suppressed GCSE component only as a bounded reconstruction
WIN_GCSE_2012_DFE · DfE · 2012 KS4 underlying school-level data · official 1,191-entry file; 1,185 grades disclosed and six lawfully suppressed, producing exact percentage intervals
WIN_ACCOUNTS_2018 · Winchester College · signed accounts 2018 · official Pre-U headline and university-offer evidence
WIN_GCSE_2020_PDF · Winchester College · GCSE Results Summer 2020 · final · official complete subject table; 1,189 GCSE/IGCSE entries, with 58 Additional Mathematics entries reported separately
WIN_GCSE_2021_PDF · Winchester College · IGCSE and GCSE results 2021 · official · official complete subject table; 1,258 GCSE/IGCSE entries, with 59 Additional Mathematics entries reported separately

Method and version

Method: harm-v1 1.0.0
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Qualification mix: 9-1 (school-statement)

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