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Magdalen College School

1,327 evidence entries from 1992 to 2026: results for A level, GCSE / IGCSE and AS-level, among 11 qualifications; 170 university entries. No results measure yet has two years comparable on one definition.

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Latest recorded results

The newest figures we hold for each qualification. A school may have published further results or revisions.

GCSE / IGCSE

2026 results

57.95%grade 9

83.26%grades 9–8

This record has a different scope from the school-wide comparison series.

Definitions and publication notes

What is counted: Numbered grade entries

Publication note: Primary

Research note: ISC published school return. Candidate populations are separate from subject entries; overlapping group totals are not added. A missing school return or an optional zero-filled qualification block does not establish non-provision. The other GCSE grading scale is a separate group. Candidate count spans both scales and is kept in a separate school-return population record. Fractional totals are retained as weighted full/short-course totals; pure full-course comparisons are excluded.

Definition in the record: Combined full and short GCSE courses, 9-1 scale only

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A level

2026 results

45%A*

83%A*–A

97%A*–B

Published sources differ. Read the source notes before using these figures.

The record does not establish which group this figure counts.

This record has a different scope from the school-wide comparison series.

Definitions and publication notes

Publication note: Source disagreement · versions retained

Research note: Hub and dated results article disagree; detailed PDF retained as a third version. No assumption that URL recency proves revised status.

Definition in the record: School-published A-level grade percentages.

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Newest results in our record: GCSE / IGCSE 2026 · A level 2026.

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Before comparing this school

Detailed qualification tables cover 2022–2026, with earlier 2016–2020 summaries. Earlier A-level headline tables include Pre-U equivalents. The 2026 A-level hub and dated news version disagree.

Use the same qualification, grade band and years for each school. Exam grades describe a cohort’s results; they do not tell you which school will suit an individual child.

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How have results changed?

What this school’s own published figures show, measure by measure, comparing only the years published on a single definition and naming those years.

A-level grades at A* · 2025

One year of A-level grades at A* is held (2025, at 43%), so the record shows no change over time.

What this is comparing, and what it cannot say

One figure cannot establish a direction. A second year on the same definition is what would make this a trend.

GCSE / IGCSE entries at grade 9 · 2025

One year of GCSE / IGCSE entries at grade 9 is held (2025, at 61%), so the record shows no change over time.

What this is comparing, and what it cannot say

One figure cannot establish a direction. A second year on the same definition is what would make this a trend.

The charts keep A-level, numbered GCSE grades and older GCSE grades apart, because a grade on one qualification is not a grade on another.

A-level grades at A*
A-level grades at A* · 2025
MCS Oxford: 1 year. Each point links to its source record; the exact values are listed below the chart.MCS Oxford · 2025 · 43%

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MCS Oxford
MCS Oxford: 1 year. Each point links to its source record; the exact values are listed below the chart.MCS Oxford · 2025 · 43%

Select a point to check its source. A break in a line means a year has no comparable figure; nothing is interpolated and no result has been estimated. The figures behind the chart are listed below.

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Exact supporting values · source precision retained
School / yearPublished valuePopulation and denominatorStatus and precisionEvidence
Magdalen College School
2025		43%A-level post-2010 A*–E · Grade awardsA-level subject entriesDenominator: Unknown / not recordedAs of 23 September 2025; subject to remarking0 decimal placesInspect evidence: Magdalen College School, 2025, a_starnew:mcs-oxford:2025:a-level:dated-pdf-headline
GCSE / IGCSE entries at grade 9
GCSE / IGCSE entries at grade 9 · 2025
MCS Oxford: 1 year. Each point links to its source record; the exact values are listed below the chart.MCS Oxford · 2025 · 61%

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MCS Oxford
MCS Oxford: 1 year. Each point links to its source record; the exact values are listed below the chart.MCS Oxford · 2025 · 61%

Select a point to check its source. A break in a line means a year has no comparable figure; nothing is interpolated and no result has been estimated. The figures behind the chart are listed below.

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Exact supporting values · source precision retained
School / yearPublished valuePopulation and denominatorStatus and precisionEvidence
Magdalen College School
2025		61%GCSE / IGCSE 9–1 · Grade awardsNumbered grade entriesDenominator: Unknown / not recordedAs of 23 September 2025; subject to remarking0 decimal placesInspect evidence: Magdalen College School, 2025, grade_9new:mcs-oxford:2025:gcse-igcse:dated-pdf-headline
Legacy GCSE / IGCSE entries at A*

There are no comparable figures to plot for this period. The coverage and source records explain which figures are missing or cannot be compared.

For Pre-U, IB, mixed qualifications and figures that cannot be charted directly, browse the full exam results.

All qualifications held in our record

GCSE / IGCSE

306 records, with dated results from 1992 to 2026. There may be gaps within that period.

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A level

620 records, with dated results from 1992 to 2026. There may be gaps within that period.

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Cambridge Pre-U

26 records, with dated results from 2022 to 2024. There may be gaps within that period.

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Mixed A-level / Pre-U

28 records, with dated results from 2014 to 2023. There may be gaps within that period.

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AS-level

145 records, with dated results from 2003 to 2024. There may be gaps within that period.

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AS-level including Applied

4 records, with dated results from 2010 to 2013. There may be gaps within that period.

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Sixth-form examination populations

9 records, with dated results from 2010 to 2026. There may be gaps within that period.

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AS-level including Applied and International

5 records, with dated results from 2014 to 2026. There may be gaps within that period.

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Internal/AS-level combined

1 records, with dated results from 2016 to 2016. There may be gaps within that period.

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Free-standing Mathematics Qualification (Level 3)

8 records, with dated results from 2017 to 2025. There may be gaps within that period.

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Other academic (qualification unresolved)

5 records, with dated results from 2021 to 2021. There may be gaps within that period.

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Where do pupils go next?

Explore published university figures. An offer is not the same as a place taken up, and one pupil may receive several offers.

Latest dated destination entry held: 2025 · 6 newer records (outcome definition not established) are held in the full university records below. Coverage varies by year; a blank is not a zero.

2025 · Actual destinations

University destinations · published record · 2025 · University destinations

destinations

13 · Medicine or dentistry pupils

111 · Other russell group pupils

26 · Oxbridge or ivy league pupils

What these figures count

Published destinations highlights, version dated 23 September 2025

Publication note: Primary

Research note: Oxford/Cambridge and Ivy League are one combined group and cannot be split. Medicine/Dentistry overlaps institutional groups; no total cohort supplied.

Definition in the record: Published destinations highlights, version dated 23 September 2025

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2025 · Actual destinations

Higher education

destinations

35 · Places deferred to the next year

121 · Places starting in the same year

156 · Pupils in the stated year group

What these figures count

Upper Sixth cohort, same-autumn starts and following-year deferrals

Publication note: Primary

Research note: The report separately states starts and next-year deferred places. Do not infer missing categories or force these figures to exhaust the year group.

Definition in the record: Upper Sixth cohort, same-autumn starts and following-year deferrals

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Which years can I compare?

A long date range can still contain gaps. This table shows how many years are available for each chart measure and where a comparison needs care.

Years within each measure’s recorded span; categories can overlap
Measure and yearsYears with figuresYears in chartsSources differ2020–2021Qualified figuresYears with no record at all
A-level grades at A* 2025110000
GCSE / IGCSE entries at grade 9 2025110000
Legacy GCSE / IGCSE entries at A* No chartable series yet — see the year-by-year record below

A dash means this measure has no chartable series yet, so none of these counts applies to it; the year-by-year record below still says what was searched for it. “Qualified figures” includes ranges and descriptions such as “over 90%”. The last column counts years inside the measure’s span for which we hold no record of any kind; they are not zero results. A year can hold records and still not be comparable — those are counted in the columns to its left, which is why this column is smaller than the number of years missing from a chart. The year-by-year record below names every year either way. Categories can overlap, so do not add the columns together.

Which years have been researched, and what was found

This is our record of our own work, not a statement about the school. 154 of the 296 school-year cells researched here hold a figure; 117 were searched without one being recovered; 4 have not been searched yet; 21 did not apply. No search for this school is yet recorded as closed: every year without a figure here remains open. A year without a figure is never a zero, and never evidence that the school published nothing.

Open the year-by-year record for all 8 categories
  • Figure held — We hold a recorded figure for this year, with the source it came from.
  • Found, not comparable — We found something for this year, but its definition, cohort or coverage is unresolved, so it cannot be compared with other years or schools.
  • No figure yet — We do not hold a figure for this year. The routes tried are listed; the year is still open, and this is not evidence that the school published nothing.
  • Not researched yet — Nobody has searched for this year yet, so its absence here tells you nothing about what the school published.
  • Did not apply — This qualification or outcome did not exist or was not offered here in this year, and we hold a source that says so.

A-level

Covers A-level grades, including the A* measures charted above. 35 of the 37 years from 1990 to 2026 hold a figure here and 2 were searched without one being recovered.

  1. 1990
  2. 1991
  3. 1992
  4. 1993
  5. 1994
  6. 1995
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  25. 2014
  26. 2015
  27. 2016
  28. 2017
  29. 2018
  30. 2019
  31. 2020
  32. 2021
  33. 2022
  34. 2023
  35. 2024
  36. 2025
  37. 2026
What was tried for the 2 years with no figure
1990
  • Year-specific search-engine discovery attempted; exact queries in search-log-last-four.json
  • Public annual accounts route checked; full-PDF OCR category search where retrieval succeeded. Details and unresolved candidate pages: annual-accounts-category-route-log.json
1991
  • Year-specific search-engine discovery attempted; exact queries in search-log-last-four.json

GCSE/IGCSE

Covers GCSE and IGCSE grades, numbered and lettered. 25 of the 37 years from 1990 to 2026 hold a figure here and 12 were searched without one being recovered.

  1. 1990
  2. 1991
  3. 1992
  4. 1993
  5. 1994
  6. 1995
  7. 1996
  8. 1997
  9. 1998
  10. 1999
  11. 2000
  12. 2001
  13. 2002
  14. 2003
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  21. 2010
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  24. 2013
  25. 2014
  26. 2015
  27. 2016
  28. 2017
  29. 2018
  30. 2019
  31. 2020
  32. 2021
  33. 2022
  34. 2023
  35. 2024
  36. 2025
  37. 2026
What was tried for the 12 years with no figure
1990
  • Year-specific search-engine discovery attempted; exact queries in search-log-last-four.json
  • Public annual accounts route checked; full-PDF OCR category search where retrieval succeeded. Details and unresolved candidate pages: annual-accounts-category-route-log.json
1991
  • Year-specific search-engine discovery attempted; exact queries in search-log-last-four.json
1993–2002
  • Year-specific search-engine discovery attempted; exact queries in search-log-last-four.json
  • Public annual accounts route checked; full-PDF OCR category search where retrieval succeeded. Details and unresolved candidate pages: annual-accounts-category-route-log.json

Pre-U

Covers Cambridge Pre-U grades, which are not charted as a separate series. 11 of the 37 years from 1990 to 2026 hold a figure here, 5 were searched without one being recovered and 21 did not apply.

  1. 1990
  2. 1991
  3. 1992
  4. 1993
  5. 1994
  6. 1995
  7. 1996
  8. 1997
  9. 1998
  10. 1999
  11. 2000
  12. 2001
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  25. 2014
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  27. 2016
  28. 2017
  29. 2018
  30. 2019
  31. 2020
  32. 2021
  33. 2022
  34. 2023
  35. 2024
  36. 2025
  37. 2026
What was tried for the 5 years with no figure
2009
  • Public annual accounts route checked; full-PDF OCR category search where retrieval succeeded. Details and unresolved candidate pages: annual-accounts-category-route-log.json
2010–2012
  • Inspected named-school return availability in original ISC annual workbook
  • Public annual accounts route checked; full-PDF OCR category search where retrieval succeeded. Details and unresolved candidate pages: annual-accounts-category-route-log.json
2013
  • Inspected named-school return availability in original ISC annual workbook
  • Public annual accounts route checked; full-PDF OCR category search where retrieval succeeded. Details and unresolved candidate pages: annual-accounts-category-route-log.json
  • Original government qualification workbooks inspected with exact school identity, contemporary metadata, actual header/row support, complete numeric grade-sum and direct source-cell checks; no suppressed grade reconstructed

IB

Covers International Baccalaureate results, which are not charted as a separate series. None of the 37 years from 1990 to 2026 holds a figure here yet, 36 were searched without one being recovered and 1 have not been searched yet.

  1. 1990
  2. 1991
  3. 1992
  4. 1993
  5. 1994
  6. 1995
  7. 1996
  8. 1997
  9. 1998
  10. 1999
  11. 2000
  12. 2001
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  26. 2015
  27. 2016
  28. 2017
  29. 2018
  30. 2019
  31. 2020
  32. 2021
  33. 2022
  34. 2023
  35. 2024
  36. 2025
  37. 2026
What was tried for the 36 years with no figure
1990
  • Public annual accounts route checked; full-PDF OCR category search where retrieval succeeded. Details and unresolved candidate pages: annual-accounts-category-route-log.json
1992–2006
  • Public annual accounts route checked; full-PDF OCR category search where retrieval succeeded. Details and unresolved candidate pages: annual-accounts-category-route-log.json
2007–2012
  • Inspected named-school return availability in original ISC annual workbook
  • Public annual accounts route checked; full-PDF OCR category search where retrieval succeeded. Details and unresolved candidate pages: annual-accounts-category-route-log.json
2013–2017
  • Inspected named-school return availability in original ISC annual workbook
  • Public annual accounts route checked; full-PDF OCR category search where retrieval succeeded. Details and unresolved candidate pages: annual-accounts-category-route-log.json
  • Original government qualification workbooks inspected with exact school identity, contemporary metadata, actual header/row support, complete numeric grade-sum and direct source-cell checks; no suppressed grade reconstructed
2018–2019
  • Public annual accounts route checked; full-PDF OCR category search where retrieval succeeded. Details and unresolved candidate pages: annual-accounts-category-route-log.json
  • Original government qualification workbooks inspected with exact school identity, contemporary metadata, actual header/row support, complete numeric grade-sum and direct source-cell checks; no suppressed grade reconstructed
2020
  • Public annual accounts route checked; full-PDF OCR category search where retrieval succeeded. Details and unresolved candidate pages: annual-accounts-category-route-log.json
2021–2025
  • Public annual accounts route checked; full-PDF OCR category search where retrieval succeeded. Details and unresolved candidate pages: annual-accounts-category-route-log.json
  • Original government qualification workbooks inspected with exact school identity, contemporary metadata, actual header/row support, complete numeric grade-sum and direct source-cell checks; no suppressed grade reconstructed
2026
  • Inspected named-school return availability in original ISC annual workbook

Not searched yet: 1991. Their absence here tells you nothing about what the school published.

university applications

Covers applications made, which are not offers or places, and are not charted as a series. 21 of the 37 years from 1990 to 2026 hold a figure here, 15 were searched without one being recovered and 1 have not been searched yet.

  1. 1990
  2. 1991
  3. 1992
  4. 1993
  5. 1994
  6. 1995
  7. 1996
  8. 1997
  9. 1998
  10. 1999
  11. 2000
  12. 2001
  13. 2002
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  26. 2015
  27. 2016
  28. 2017
  29. 2018
  30. 2019
  31. 2020
  32. 2021
  33. 2022
  34. 2023
  35. 2024
  36. 2025
  37. 2026
What was tried for the 15 years with no figure
1990
  • Public annual accounts route checked; full-PDF OCR category search where retrieval succeeded. Details and unresolved candidate pages: annual-accounts-category-route-log.json
1992–2002
  • Public annual accounts route checked; full-PDF OCR category search where retrieval succeeded. Details and unresolved candidate pages: annual-accounts-category-route-log.json
2007–2008
  • Public annual accounts route checked; full-PDF OCR category search where retrieval succeeded. Details and unresolved candidate pages: annual-accounts-category-route-log.json
  • Oxford FOI 202405/468 original workbook: school/cycle row identified by UCAS school ID, name, postcode and group; applications, offers and acceptances tokens transcribed with the literal <3 suppression band retained. This is a university admissions-cycle count, not a leaver destination.
2026
  • Original 2026 results article/university hub fully read for separately defined applications, offers, acceptances and intended destinations; 2026-destination-followup-checks.json.

Not searched yet: 1991. Their absence here tells you nothing about what the school published.

university offers

Covers offers received, which are not places taken up, and are not charted as a series. 21 of the 37 years from 1990 to 2026 hold a figure here, 15 were searched without one being recovered and 1 have not been searched yet.

  1. 1990
  2. 1991
  3. 1992
  4. 1993
  5. 1994
  6. 1995
  7. 1996
  8. 1997
  9. 1998
  10. 1999
  11. 2000
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  15. 2004
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  28. 2017
  29. 2018
  30. 2019
  31. 2020
  32. 2021
  33. 2022
  34. 2023
  35. 2024
  36. 2025
  37. 2026
What was tried for the 15 years with no figure
1990
  • Public annual accounts route checked; full-PDF OCR category search where retrieval succeeded. Details and unresolved candidate pages: annual-accounts-category-route-log.json
1992–2002
  • Public annual accounts route checked; full-PDF OCR category search where retrieval succeeded. Details and unresolved candidate pages: annual-accounts-category-route-log.json
2007–2008
  • Public annual accounts route checked; full-PDF OCR category search where retrieval succeeded. Details and unresolved candidate pages: annual-accounts-category-route-log.json
  • Oxford FOI 202405/468 original workbook: school/cycle row identified by UCAS school ID, name, postcode and group; applications, offers and acceptances tokens transcribed with the literal <3 suppression band retained. This is a university admissions-cycle count, not a leaver destination.
2026
  • Original 2026 results article/university hub fully read for separately defined applications, offers, acceptances and intended destinations; 2026-destination-followup-checks.json.

Not searched yet: 1991. Their absence here tells you nothing about what the school published.

university acceptances

Covers places accepted, which are not confirmed destinations; no chart plots them. 21 of the 37 years from 1990 to 2026 hold a figure here, 15 were searched without one being recovered and 1 have not been searched yet.

  1. 1990
  2. 1991
  3. 1992
  4. 1993
  5. 1994
  6. 1995
  7. 1996
  8. 1997
  9. 1998
  10. 1999
  11. 2000
  12. 2001
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  29. 2018
  30. 2019
  31. 2020
  32. 2021
  33. 2022
  34. 2023
  35. 2024
  36. 2025
  37. 2026
What was tried for the 15 years with no figure
1990
  • Public annual accounts route checked; full-PDF OCR category search where retrieval succeeded. Details and unresolved candidate pages: annual-accounts-category-route-log.json
1992–2002
  • Public annual accounts route checked; full-PDF OCR category search where retrieval succeeded. Details and unresolved candidate pages: annual-accounts-category-route-log.json
2007–2008
  • Public annual accounts route checked; full-PDF OCR category search where retrieval succeeded. Details and unresolved candidate pages: annual-accounts-category-route-log.json
  • Oxford FOI 202405/468 original workbook: school/cycle row identified by UCAS school ID, name, postcode and group; applications, offers and acceptances tokens transcribed with the literal <3 suppression band retained. This is a university admissions-cycle count, not a leaver destination.
2026
  • Original 2026 results article/university hub fully read for separately defined applications, offers, acceptances and intended destinations; 2026-destination-followup-checks.json.

Not searched yet: 1991. Their absence here tells you nothing about what the school published.

university destinations

Covers where leavers actually went, read on the destinations page rather than as a chart. 20 of the 37 years from 1990 to 2026 hold a figure here and 17 were searched without one being recovered.

  1. 1990
  2. 1991
  3. 1992
  4. 1993
  5. 1994
  6. 1995
  7. 1996
  8. 1997
  9. 1998
  10. 1999
  11. 2000
  12. 2001
  13. 2002
  14. 2003
  15. 2004
  16. 2005
  17. 2006
  18. 2007
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  20. 2009
  21. 2010
  22. 2011
  23. 2012
  24. 2013
  25. 2014
  26. 2015
  27. 2016
  28. 2017
  29. 2018
  30. 2019
  31. 2020
  32. 2021
  33. 2022
  34. 2023
  35. 2024
  36. 2025
  37. 2026
What was tried for the 17 years with no figure
1990
  • Year-specific search-engine discovery attempted; exact queries in search-log-last-four.json
  • Public annual accounts route checked; full-PDF OCR category search where retrieval succeeded. Details and unresolved candidate pages: annual-accounts-category-route-log.json
1991
  • Year-specific search-engine discovery attempted; exact queries in search-log-last-four.json
1992–2002
  • Year-specific search-engine discovery attempted; exact queries in search-log-last-four.json
  • Public annual accounts route checked; full-PDF OCR category search where retrieval succeeded. Details and unresolved candidate pages: annual-accounts-category-route-log.json
2007–2010
  • Year-specific search-engine discovery attempted; exact queries in search-log-last-four.json
  • Public annual accounts route checked; full-PDF OCR category search where retrieval succeeded. Details and unresolved candidate pages: annual-accounts-category-route-log.json
More about this coverage table

Figures with different definitions, blank values or an unknown group counted remain available in the source records. Other qualifications appear in the full exam results.

Most recent recorded source check: 2026-09-06. This date applies to an individual publication, not every result on this page.

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