What % A - A* GCSE pass rate

[sadie3]

Would you consider to be good for a private school?

Selective and non selective

TIA

Surely 70-80% would be a pretty outstanding result given that children are not robots and there will be children experiencing problems like divorce, bereavement, ill health of a family memeber, or ill health themselves, including things like depression?

When I was 16 my grandma who I was incredibly attached to died and I fell into depression, I recovered after a year or so but still had trouble sleeping and concentrating as I kept seeing her and feeling her all the time. I wonder how some of these schools deal with things like that? If I was choosing a school I would want to make sure my child got the right support.

I know a family whose child was diagnosed with cancer aged 15 and the school turfed her out as they couldn't risk her spoiling their exam results....just food for thought.

binnsandbottwell that was one of the 8! there were 440+ that didn't manage more than 90% A/A*. Tsk!

For me it doesn't matter too much what percentage the school achieves - what's more relevant is what percentage of A*/A my child will achieve at that school. This is much harder to determine in advance, but if they achieve 90%+ and the school only achieves 50% then I'm quite happy.

I imagine the teachers at Westminster keep kicking them up the arse until they work, whereas hard work seems to be optional at the grammar school my DD goes to