Research edition · Comparison · St Paul’s · Wellington
How do St Paul’s and Wellington compare on GCSE / IGCSE entries at grade 9?
Comparison · GCSE / IGCSE entries at grade 9 · 2022, 2024–2026. Edition of 12 Nov 2026.
The answer
St Paul’s comes out higher than Wellington on the share of GCSE and IGCSE entries awarded grade 9 when the available years are compared. The same school comes out higher in every period we checked.
The figures
- St Paul’s
- Wellington
Each school against the same scale and years.
Exam eras: 2022 (return to exams); 2023–25; 2026. The rule beneath the axis marks exam conditions, not schools.
A break in a line means a year has no comparable figure; nothing is estimated. The figures behind the chart are listed below.
| Year | St Paul’s (%) | Wellington (%) | Gap (points) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 76.2 | 49.05 | 27.15 |
| 2024 | 73 | 38.7 | 34.3 |
| 2025 | 68.6 | 41.8 | 26.8 |
| 2026 | 72 | 45.1 | 26.9 |
Figures to two decimal places at most. A figure known only within the school’s rounding is shown as a range, never as its lower end.
Read this with the answer
- This comparison uses results on the 9–1 scale only. It leaves out older A*–G grades, partial results from the transition between scales and the school’s own combinations of old and new grades. Teacher-assessed years are left out by default.
- Published results describe different groups of pupils, chosen in different ways. They can’t show the effect of attending a school, or what one pupil would achieve.
- Only the years both schools can be compared on are used: 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. A missing or excluded year is not a zero result.
- Fewer than five shared years, which is too few for the period check: it needs five.
- These figures carry the record’s existing source checks, which are kept apart from background links. This edition didn’t reopen every original publication.
- Historical results: the latest shared year is 2026. 2026 counts only where a figure passes this measure’s usual rules.
4 of the 8 recorded figures behind this comparison have an exact source check for that field and year; 4 are recorded or calculated figures with their support set out in Record details. This is not a fresh check of every source.
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Where the figures come from
Each record gives the full definition, the documents it came from and what we checked.
St Paul’s School · 2022 · GCSE and IGCSE results · 2022 · 9-1
This figure hasn’t been fully checked against the original yet.
Wellington College · 2022 · GCSE · published record · 2022 · GCSE · 9-1
Checked against the original: grade 9, grades 9–7 and grades 9–8.
St Paul’s School · 2024 · GCSE and IGCSE results · 2024 · 9-1
This figure hasn’t been fully checked against the original yet.
Wellington College · 2024 · GCSE · published record · 2024 · GCSE · 9-1
Checked against the original: grade 9, grades 9–7 and grades 9–8.
St Paul’s School · 2025 · GCSE and IGCSE results · 2025 · 9-1
This figure hasn’t been fully checked against the original yet.
Wellington College · 2025 · GCSE · published record · 2025 · GCSE · 9-1
Checked against the original: grade 9, grades 9–7 and grades 9–8.
St Paul’s School · 2026 · GCSE and IGCSE results · 2026 · 9-1
This figure hasn’t been fully checked against the original yet.
Wellington College · 2026 · GCSE · published record · 2026 · GCSE · 9-1
Checked against the original: grade 9, grades 9–7 and grades 9–8.