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School's exam results falling

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justlumpingalong · 25/08/2023 07:52

Just wondering how worried I should be about the drop in our school's exam results. We are not at GCSE stage yet, but I'm wondering if we should be looking around for alternatives.

It's a private school. We chose it because it had decent results but was lower pressure than most of the other local independents. But I'm worried... In 2018 40% of kids were getting 8s and 9s, and 60% 7/8/9. Very similar in 2019. Then amazing results in the covid years, which I'm pretty much ignoring, but this year just 27% got 8/9 and 47% got 7/8/9.

For context, the A level results were really weak this year too. Numbers of kids at the school is falling. It's still a healthy number, but down noticeably.

Could this just be a blip? Should I be looking elsewhere?

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OvaHere · 28/08/2023 20:47

elkiedee · 28/08/2023 18:50

No experience of private schools but if marking overall is really at 2019 levels I would expect actual results to be lower. DS1 has just taken his GCSEs so was in year 8 in March 2020, and year 9 was very disrupted too, with political mayhem between a number of London local authorities and the government well before the start of the second lockdown and so many interpretations of what lockdown meant. I can't see how school students of any age aren't going to have had a very different experience from those of the same age in 2019 (though obviously those students then went through some very difficult times during A level and university)..

I think this cohort probably went into Yr 10 with shaky foundational knowledge particularly in core subjects where that foundation work is really key to then build on for GCSE.

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