Schools that post NOTHING about their GCSE results on their web pages ....

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DCs school has put up fairly detailed data and stated that they will be asking about the Eng Lang marks and accepting that staying in the same place is just fine.

My catchment school on the other hand - Zilch. Nothing. Diddly Squat.

Which of course speaks volumes I'd have thought.

Last year they got 44% on GCSE or equiv. 32% five GCSEs and 0% EBACC

and next month they move into a £13.6 million pound brand new building ....

Okay, the 0% EBACC is probably because they don't offer one of the subjects included in it (e.g. they just didn't do a humanity or a language GCSE) One year isn't enough to change that as this year's Year 11 would already have chosen/started their GCSEs when the EBACC was introduced. I suspect next year they will improve their EBACC.

The 44%/32% are 'headline' figures. What you should really be interested in (as you appear to be fascinated with this school) is the percentage of pupils making progress. That way you are comparing the pupils with what they are capable of, rather than comparing them with what last year's cohort was capable of, iyswim.

Well perhaps the 13 million pound building you're do hung up on will improve results. Or increase local house prices.

If they're moving into a brand new building next month, I expect the people at school who are capable of updating the website are rather busy with more pressing things than reassuring you about the value of your house.

OP you are worried about a school's GCSE results (that your children do not attend) in case they affect the value of your house? Have I got that right?

We don't put congrats on our website - the pupils are congratulated in person when they collect their results. Why would we put it on our website so that a random person, unconnected from the school could read it?!?!

So some fucker is giving them a new building even though their results might turn out not to be very good? The bastards.

and it cost 13 million pounds!!
some tiny bit of jealousy there, peut etre?

I think parents rather than 'random people' would be interested wouldn't they? My kids' school had a notice up on their website the same day A level and GCSE results came out - they always do. And I always look because, as a parent, I'm interested to see how the school has performed. It's a relatively short summary because, as others have said, results need to be confirmed, remarks need to be deal with etc. But I can't think it takes long to post a few paragraphs on a school's website.

But we have a parent portal for that kind of thing - we wouldn't put it on out public website as congratulations (which is what I was referring too and not results info) is nothing to do with anyone else outside the school. Results info in general goes on the information boards on our private parent portal.

DD2's school are moving into their new building that cost £80million (most expensive state school ever built in UK) next half term and don't put results on their website

Our results aren't on the website yet...the schools have increased on last year.
I wouldn't expect it to be on till Sept 5th.

In many schools the ICT staff, i.e. the people who update the website, don't work in the holidays, so the person able to update the website may not be around to update it.

not all schools do 'boast' about their results. In my area it is common for schools to have banners outside with their latest results/Ofsted ratings however my head thinks this is crass and will not consider any form of boasting (although we have plenty to boast about!)

Our school haven't put up the results yet, despite them being the best ever. And that is ever, ever, ever in the history of GCSEs. But then they are supposed to be on holiday and they have given a press release (as have all other local schools), so everyone who buys the local rag knows.

what a pointless argumant you are all having

good god did I spell argument like that

Just spent the evening with a good friend who teaches at one of our local schools. He said that all the consortium (half a dozen or so) schools have an agreement that they will not publish exam results statistics in local newspapers/school websites until an agreed point. All they're allowed to do is champion certain students who've done particularly well.

The Telegraph has a system where schools can enter headline figures if they want to and they produce a sort of early league table. They have had far less entries this year as schools hold back unhappy with the aenglish marking. Maybe this has affected some schools that normally update their website quickly.

I don't think schools should name individual pupils.

But a table, showing number of entrants per subject and the results per subject, plus number achieving a benchmark overall level (5 A-C including maths/English; and 5 A - C or equivalent) will give information that would help prospective new entrants and let local community know how their school is doing. Much cheaper and more effective than using an insert slip in prospectus as suggested above (thus minimising printing and postage costs).

Dd's school never updates the website with GCSE results till they have got back to school then they normally have a whole section of photo's plus the head line results of how many 5 A-C's they got plus the precentage who passed Maths, English and 2 s or 3 Sciences. They along with a high number of other schools don't go in for the names in the paper thing either.

My school did fantastically well this year, greater than 90% 5 A-Cs inc English and Maths, there is nothing currently about that on the school website.
Probably because they are doing a heap of internal work to the school building.
Same argument may well apply to a school about to move into a new building, those staff at work may be a tad busy.