Record-breaking GCSE results

Reed’s School is celebrating record-breaking results at GCSE and IGCSE for 2017. With an outstanding 43% A* grades and 74% A*/A overall, Reed’s pupils have exceeded previous records by more than 9%. 60% of the whole year group received at least 7 A* or A grades and 25% achieved straight A*/A grades. 

Thrilled Headmaster, Mark Hoskins, commented, “These are our best ever GCSE results. I would like to offer my congratulations to both the pupils, who worked with great determination, and our excellent teaching staff who have motivated and inspired them. Our pupils consistently achieve grades far beyond those predicted by national data and this year is no exception.”

The results for Mathematics were exceptional with 93% of grades at A*/A. Other subjects that achieved results of higher than 80% A*/A grades were Biology, Geography, History, Music, Drama and Latin. English results were also outstanding, continuing the upward trend with A*/A grades of 77% and 75% in Language and Literature respectively.

Leading the way was 16 year old Sam Hunt who scored eleven A* grades (including a distinction in Further Maths) closely followed by Tommy Tenenbaum, Matthew Ferguson and Pierce Gaut and Adam McCormack who all achieved ten A* grades.

Overall results were:

A*        43%

A*-A    74%

A*-C    98%

A*-E   100%