As a proudly mixed ability school, The Royal School is academically ambitious for all its pupils and 2023 is consistent with its usual excellent ‘Added value’. ‘Added value’ refers to the difference between the GCSE or A level grades a pupil would get at an ‘average’ school and the grades that they actually achieve.
A levels
Sixth Form pupils are taught in small classes by A level specialists. In 2023, there was success right across the curriculum. Pupils have emerged from school triumphant in securing impressive next steps.
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Cumulative % at each grade
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A*-A
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A*-B
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A*-C
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A*-D
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A*-E
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Cumulative Royal % 2023 Results
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20.8
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45.8
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75
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98
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100.0
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Cumulative Royal % 2022 Results
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31.8
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59.1
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84.8
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98.5
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100.0
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Cumulative Royal % 2021 Results (Covid - TAG)*
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57.0
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83.5
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93.7
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98.7
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100.0
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Cumulative Royal % 2020 Results (Covid - CAG)**
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50.4
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75.6
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92.4
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97.5
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100.0
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Cumulative Royal % 2019 Results
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22.9
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57.1
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82.9
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88.6
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97.1
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Cumulative Royal % 2018 Results
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50.7
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72.6
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86.3
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95.9
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98.6
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Cumulative Royal % 2017 Results
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42.5
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71.2
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83.6
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93.2
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97.3
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*Teacher Assessed Grade
**Centre Assessment Grade
GCSEs
Our GCSE pupils comprise a range of academic abilities and 2023 results have successfully enabled the next steps in their educational journey.
| Cumulative % at each grade |
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9-8 |
9-7 |
9-4 |
| Cumulative Royal % 2023 |
18.0 |
30.0 |
94.0 |
| Cumulative Royal % 2022 |
18.1 |
33.2 |
94.8 |
| Cumulative Royal % 2021 (Covid - TAG)* |
47.0 |
67.4 |
99.6 |
| Cumulative Royal % 2020 (Covid - CAG)** |
31.8 |
55.5 |
99.3 |
| Cumulative Royal % 2019 |
21.9 |
45.3 |
96.4 |
| Cumulative Royal % 2018 |
19.8 |
39.1 |
94.2 |
| Cumulative Royal % 2017 |
16.4 |
36.7 |
93.8 |
*Teacher Assessed Grade
**Centre Assessment Grade
Added Value
‘Added value’ refers to the difference between the GCSE or A level grades a pupil would get at an ‘average’ school and the grades that they actually achieve.
Added value is tracked as part of a long-term project run by Durham University that processes over 40,000 Year 7 pupils per year. In Year 7, pupils sit a MidYIS test and the results are submitted to the project. Over the last 25 years, thousands of pupils’ test scores have been compared with their GCSE results which allows Durham University to provide statistical predictions for each pupil, benchmarked against other pupils. After GCSE results are sent to Durham University, a ‘value added’ score is calculated which analyses the difference between the predicted and actual results. An ‘average’ score would gain an overall value added score of zero, while a good school might expect an average uplift of a significant proportion of a grade per pupil. The Royal School achieves consistently high value added scores for every pupil.