Secondary school results, Christs and Grey Court results swap?

[Kora]

My DD is still far from secondary school stage but I've been keeping an eye on the local secondaries and (trying) to keep an open mind. Fellow mnetters might be interested to hear that although Christs put in its usual better "performance" than Grey Court based on 5 A*-C GCSEs including English and Maths (64% compared to 54%), Grey Court did far better on the new "English baccalaureate". This is awarded to those who achieve GCSEs at grade C or above in English, maths, science, a foreign language, and history or geography (ie a more traditionally academic spread). On that measure, Grey Court got 27% compared to Christs 10%. Perhaps even more surprisingly, Shene (now Richmond Park Academy) did better than Christs too - only by 1% but still contrary to impressions. Ah, lies and statistics eh? Makes me wonder slightly what were the more popular subjects at Christs. I think it's good that comprehensives offer more than just trad subjects, and you can't just measure schools on stats, but 10% does seem a little on the low side...

p.s. Statistics from Guardian online, please don't blame me if wrong (although I suppose I might have read wrongly!)

It would seem RE is a popular humanities choice at Christ's being a Church of England school. That would skew the Eng Bacc results somewhat, as the Eng Bacc doesn't include RE/RS. I have the GCSE result breakdown from the last open day:

GCSE Geography 26 pupils entered 61.54% A-C
GCSE History 22 pupils entered 59.09% A-C
GCSE RE 61 pupils entered 86.89% A-C

= 109 pupils (out of 114 in the year group, I suspect some pupils may not take certain subjects to concentrate on others).

So at a guess the timetable is structured in such a way that pupils are only able to pick one humanities subject at GCSE?

Ha - statistics, don't you just love the chance to manipulate 'em? Just so you know, at open day at RPA, one of the classes (think it was maths) had info up on the board banging on about how many a to c's they had. DH then asked the question as to the percentage of a and a grades were achieved. The answer was none.