Our Exam Results
2019 Examination Performance
New GCSEs are now taken by students in the vast majority of subjects. These qualifications are graded from 9 to 1, rather than from A* to G as previously. The way that students’ success at GCSE level is measured has also changed. There is now a greater emphasis on the progress students make rather than just on the actual grades they achieve.
Attainment
Average Attainment 8 – the points value of student’s best 8 GCSE grades (with English and Maths counted twice).
Attainment 8 grade– this is the average grade that students obtained in their GCSEs at a school.
Basics – a key performance measure for schools is the proportion of students who attain a ‘Good Pass’ in both English and mathematics (grade 4 or above). A ‘Strong Pass’ is considered to be grade 5 and above. For English, it is the student’s best grade of English Language and Literature which is included.
| ATTAINMENT | 2018 | 2019 |
| Average A8 | 31.56 | 32.78 |
| Average A8 grade | 3.14 | 3.28 |
| Basics 9-7 | 0.9 | 3.9 |
| Basics 9-5 | 14.6 | 21.1 |
| Basics 9-4 | 32.2 | 38.2 |
| EBacc 9-5 | 3 | 3.9 |
| Ebac 9-4 | 5.2 | 6.6 |
| Ebac APS | 2.73 | 2.89 |
We are really pleased to have seen an improvement in our Attainment 8 and Basics measures.
| English | Maths | |||||
| 4+ | 5+ | 7+ | 4+ | 5+ | 7+ | |
| 2018 | 45.5 | 29.2 | 3.4 | 39.1 | 20.6 | 3.9 |
| 2019 | 52.2 | 34.2 | 10.1 | 45.2 | 27.6 | 8.8 |
We are really pleased to have seen an improvement in both English and Maths.
Progress
Progress 8 – the progress made by students towards achieving their expected grades based on their achievements at KS2. It is a calculation based on the achievement across 8 subjects for each student and based on whether they met, exceeded or were below their expected performance in each subject. A figure is then calculated for the whole school. -0.5 is considered to be the ‘floor standard’, or the minimum expected standard set by the government.
Orchard Mead’s provisional Progress 8 figure for 2019 is -0.478 which is above the floor standard.
| Progress 8 | |
| 2018 | -0.649 |
| 2019 | -0.478 (provisional) |
We are really pleased to have seen an improvement in our Progress 8 measure. More students have achieved results this year that will support them into positive futures.
Destination measures
A measure of a school’s success is how well-prepared students are for the next stage in their life.
The latest figures available show that from a total 2018 cohort of 236, 228 students (96.6%) who completed their studies in July 2018 were participating in either:
- Full-time study in a school, college or with a training provider
- Full-time work or volunteering combined with part-time education or training
- An apprenticeship or traineeship
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