Queen Ethelburga’s Exam Results

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Hi, I’m new to the forum so please bear with me. Our eldest child is in year 4 and we have been looking round secondary schools. We are looking at both state and private. We live in north Leeds and have looked at GSAL, Ashville, Gateway’s and Queen Ethelburga’s we are still to look round Woodhouse Grove & Bradford grammar and the two local state schools.
QE was a wild card as it is the furthest away however we were very impressed with it, we loved the facilities and both the staff and pupils gave the impression that it was very nurturing (this is high on our priority list). I have noted the exams result % for all the schools for both GSCE & A-Level and QE’s results are way higher than all of the other school, I’m looking for help in understanding the results ie are they a true reflection - selective intake, small class sizes, great teaching or are the less ‘academic’ children not taking the exams? I would really love someone to provide an insight into the statistics, thanks

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I thought so too when I had only heard of it on here, then I heard stories from people offline and they seem to tally with some of what was said on here around the time of the great cull of posts and legal action threats.
I hope it's just coincidence, but you can't be sure and reputation is a funny thing.

Coincidences are funny things.

OP, I would consider all of the schools you mentioned, bar QE (will tread carefully due to its history of gunning for anyone who says anything negative). All the other schools have their various strengths and weaknesses, but I'd have sent my DC to any one of them if we'd still lived in N Leeds (can only speak for the independents, as we didn't look at state options). Not QE, though.