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Summer 2026: A-level results found for 19 of 19 schools, GCSE for 18 · last checked 11 Nov 2026

Questions

Questions worth asking about schools

Why might two results for the same school differ? What makes intellectual freedom possible in an ordinary school week? These explanations and essays follow questions through results, school publications and remembered lives.

A tall guide pauses mid-explanation as a pupil calmly raises one finger to make a point.

  1. Winchester: good company, and who gets a word in

    A leaver’s reflection, three farewells, two annual reports and an inspection, in which intellectual company keeps turning out to be somebody’s job, and the room for it sometimes runs short.

    Winchester

    History · By Andre Kaljevic · Published and reviewed

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  2. Oxford said no. Cambridge said yes

    Two rejections from Oxford, an offer from Cambridge, and a file of letters that can’t quite agree who the applicant was.

    All schools

    History · By The Schools Record · Published and reviewed

  3. St Paul’s School and the social life of an idea

    Schools like to say they prize curiosity. At St Paul’s, a schoolboy’s history magazine and a small pile of drier papers suggest what the claim can amount to.

    St Paul’s

    History · By Andre Kaljevic · Published · Last reviewed

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  4. St Paul’s in reflective nonfiction

    A school can be at its most interesting when it turns up, half by accident, in a book about something else – a friendship, say, or a vocation, or nothing grander than the awkward business of growing up.

    St Paul’s

    History · By Andre Kaljevic · Published · Last reviewed

  5. When a school revises its results: Eton 2024

    One Music Technology grade, two signed tables five weeks apart, and an A* share that is only as good as the date that came with it.

    Eton

    Finding · By Andre Kaljevic · Published and reviewed

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  6. Why do published Oxford totals differ?

    Four Oxford totals for one school and one year read like chapters of a single story. They answer different questions.

    Eton · KCS Wimbledon · SPGS · St Paul’s · Westminster · Winchester · Wycombe Abbey

    Explainer · By Andre Kaljevic · Published · Last reviewed

  7. What can an inspection show that results cannot?

    A results table can’t show how a pupil uses a lesson, starts a society or finds help; an inspection report sometimes can. Its recommendations deserve as close a reading as its praise.

    Eton · KCS Wimbledon · St Paul’s · Westminster · Winchester

    Explainer · By Andre Kaljevic · Published · Last reviewed

  9. What should happen when publications disagree?

    Four years of Eton’s A-level figures, 2022 to 2025, turn up every kind of difference we record, and only one of them is still a mystery.

    Eton · KCS Wimbledon · SPGS · St Paul’s · Westminster · Winchester · Wycombe Abbey

    Explainer · By Andre Kaljevic · Published · Last reviewed

  10. A combined A-level and IB headline, taken apart

    King’s runs two sixth-form routes and publishes one headline that folds their grades together; unfolded, it tells a livelier story about the routes pupils chose and how each fared.

    KCS Wimbledon

    Finding · By Andre Kaljevic · Published · Last reviewed

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  11. Why can Eton have more than one sixth-form result?

    Eton’s A-level table describes only part of a sixth form that also sat Pre-U, and a figure for that sixth form means little until you know which part was counted.

    Eton

    Explainer · By Andre Kaljevic · Published · Last reviewed

  12. Who is counted in a school percentage?

    KCS’s own tables, read closely, show why every percentage invites the same blunt question about who, or what, it is counting.

    KCS Wimbledon

    Explainer · By Andre Kaljevic · Published · Last reviewed · Updated

  14. King’s Wimbledon: scholarship before the league tables

    Half a century of newsletters in which King’s kept its own generous score of scholarship, counting a Science Building, a society for ship study and a history master’s judgement.

    KCS Wimbledon

    History · By Andre Kaljevic · Published and reviewed

  15. Intellectual freedom and the prep schedule

    A Victorian memory of Winchester that wonders whom its freedom served, and two Westminster farewells in which the ideas come with deadlines attached.

    Westminster · Winchester

    History · By Andre Kaljevic · Published and reviewed

  16. What do Eton and Westminster’s admissions counts show?

    Same number of Oxbridge applications, 28 more offers for Westminster, and 2025 counts that are admirably clear about what happened and silent about why.

    Eton · Westminster

    Finding · By Andre Kaljevic · Published · Last reviewed

  19. What does a top-grade percentage leave out?

    Behind a top-grade percentage stand a spread of grades and a count of entries, and each of the three sees something the other two miss.

    Eton · KCS Wimbledon · SPGS · St Paul’s · Westminster · Winchester · Wycombe Abbey

    Explainer · By Andre Kaljevic · Published · Last reviewed

  20. How long is a long comparison?

    Move a comparison’s end dates and the story can change. The span on the label matters less than how many of the years inside it belong together.

    Eton · KCS Wimbledon · SPGS · St Paul’s · Westminster · Winchester · Wycombe Abbey

    Explainer · By Andre Kaljevic · Published · Last reviewed

  21. Whose results are these?

    A school’s sixth-form results belong to particular pupils, and they need not be the pupils who sat its GCSEs. It pays to know which.

    Westminster · Winchester

    Explainer · By Andre Kaljevic · Published · Last reviewed

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