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How do Westminster and Radley compare on A-level grades at A*?

Comparison · A-level grades at A* · 2019, 2025. Edition of 28 Sep 2026.

The answer · Too few shared years to call

We can compare Westminster and Radley on this measure in only two years: 2019 (Westminster 47%, Radley 20.8%) and 2025 (Westminster 57.8%, Radley 23%). Two years can’t show a pattern.

Measure: Share of published A-level entries awarded A* in the named examination year. Years: 2019, 2025.

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The figures

Not charted: fewer than 3 comparable years for any of these schools, too few to draw a line. The figures: Westminster (2019: 47%; 2025: 57.8%); Radley (2019: 20.8%; 2025: 23%).

A-level grades at A*: Westminster and Radley, each year both can be compared. The gap is Westminster minus Radley, in percentage points.
YearWestminster (%)Radley (%)Gap (points)
20194720.826.2
202557.82334.8

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.

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  • A-level-only series. IB, Pre-U, mixed qualifications and school-defined combined definitions are excluded. CAG/TAG years 2020–21 are excluded by default; unresolved competing values are retained in the evidence record but omitted here.
  • 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: 2019 and 2025. 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 2025. They can’t show 2026 results.

3 of the 4 recorded figures behind this comparison have an exact source check for that field and year; 1 is a recorded or calculated figure with its support set out in Record details. This is not a fresh check of every source.

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Each record gives the full definition, the documents it came from and what we checked.

  1. Westminster School · 2019 · A-level results · 2019

    This figure hasn’t been fully checked against the original yet.

  2. Radley College · 2019 · A-level results · 2019 · A level · A*–E

    Checked against the original: A*, A*–A, A*–B and entries. Not yet checked: pass.

  3. Westminster School · 2025 · A-level results · 2025

    Checked against the original: 12 figures, including A* count, A* and A*–A. Not yet checked: 5 figures, including candidates, pupils with 4 A*s and pupils with 5 A*s.

  4. Radley College · 2025 · A-level results · 2025 · A level · A*–E

    Publications differ on A*–A. Checked against the original: A*, A*–B and entries.

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