GCSE results - are they published on a particular day?

[Mintyy]

Or is it up to individual schools to decide when to release them?

And also where can I look at a league table which makes sense of the results with a school's intake factored in?

Thank you.

Yes, this year was 20th August. A levels the week before on 13th. Always a Thursday.

Thanks TeenAndTween, but I wasn't being very clear.

I meant when do the schools actually publish their gcse results (the stats if you like) so that everyone can see them and when do they appear on the various tables?

3rd Thursday of August is official date and often local press will publish on the day as and when schools release them and update their website, National League tables are usually published early September

Mintyy, some of the local schools have published their results on their websites already, but League tables don't come out for a while IIRC.

I've seen some league table stuff in the papers, but not all schools were on it. Are they legally obliged to publish?

And just for information, next year's GCSE results are out on 18th August.

Dept of Education publishes all schools' results in January each year - this is to allow for adjustments following remarks and appeals etc.

Entirely up to schools when and if to publish results. Official data released the following January though.

No no obligation to be in league tables. Indeed many schools, often independents, don't because iGcses aren't included so not a good reflection of attainment.

Is that true? that state schools are not obliged to publish their results?

GCE results are not a good indicator to compare schools as there are so many ways to game the system.
The best measure of comparison is progress made, and they separate that out into lower, middle and high attainers - so you can determine how your child would progress at that school.
There is an easy comparison tool on the DfE website.
However if a school fudges the results and delays publishing the A*-C including Maths and English, chances are they are waiting till the choices are made by parents before revealing the truth (which they have to do in January but after the applications deadline).
There is a dire school near where I live (in leafy Richmond) which employs a PR person to cherrypick the fact to announce - they daren't announce the %A*-C in M&E so will use all kinds of weasel words to try to bamboozle parents. When you do comparison of progress made on the DfE website it is shocking how they compare with other local schools but parents don't usually know it exists.

It was quite funny reading the selected snippets put out by each school to the local press on GCSE results day, MrsU: everything from '98% GCSE pass rate' (i.e. down to E) to '20% more students than last year had at least 3 results at A* to B'.

Totally impossible to compare how any school had done against the rest, apart from the local all-girls private selective, which smugly announced that they had 95% of all results at A* or A.

IIRC Mintyy lives near a school which caused outrage last year by not publishing its GCSE results until after the secondary school application deadline. I won't say its name because they seem to employ someone to scour the internet getting adverse comments pulled.

"GCE results are not a good indicator to compare schools as there are so many ways to game the system."

Yes, I'm aware of that Mrs Ultracrepidarian, which is why I wanted to see a league table with all the other information about the school intake.

You recall correctly. That's school's results have gone 60% (2011), 36% (2012), 60% (2013), 76% (2014). I mean its all a bit bananas isn't it?

It is the only school out of the eight local schools whose results I've looked at whose results went UP between 2013 and 2014 . All the others went down quite significantly.

You recall correctly Gaspode! Sorry.

Some wait until all the remarking is done, before they publish.

No need to apologise! I thought it was outrageous behaviour then, but I'm just a nosy Lewisham resident who occasionally has a look a the EDF.

That's because the intake has changed significantly over time. They also put on a huge host of support/booster/revision sessions

State league tables will be out in January. (State schools have to appear in them).

There will be links to the DFE pages for each school which will give the breakdown of low/middle/high achievers in that particular Y11 and how they got on. You might want to take a copy of the current page for comparison in January.

It really is a mystery.

My school never gives the press any headline/sound bite with regards to results (we don't even do the usual release of names and numbers of passes that most schools do). HT detests the 'OFSTED' banners as well! This is despite being the top performing comp in the LA for the last 10 years and having a good OFSTED rating unlike so many in the LA

The only time anything is published is when the official league table comes out and the OFSTED site

No School is ever required to publish its results
my local school has chosen not to do so

the DFE results ( which are always published in January ) show the overall numbers, but not the per subject ones

private schools often do not : read the press release carefully and it will never include the word " complete"
state schools tend to just stay nothing

My son's (independent) school published all its GCSE and A level results, subject by subject, on the days they came out in August.

It's been a while since we were doing open days (eleven years! goodness me) but even then most of the state schools we visited gave us a complete list of GCSE results.

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I'd be interested how they got that past data protection : unless every subject was taken by more than 5 pupils?

My local school is notoriously shit and empty ....

Most of them would have been, TinP. They may have got us to sign something when we accepted the place. The school in question is doing very well and choc a bloc.