Examination Results 2011 - GCSE

We were very pleased indeed with our results. Here are some statistics:

• The highest-performing students gained nothing but As and A*s
• Two students gained 11As and A*s; one gained 10 As and A*s and a further four students gained 8 or more As or A*s
• 44% of the students gained 3 or more A*s or As.
• Over four fifths of the students experienced what it is like to gain an A or A*.
  
• % of pupils with 5 or more A* - C Grades: 84%
• A* - C Grades: 87%

In the photograph we have, in the background, 6 of the 9 pupils who attained at least 7 A* or A grades.  In the foreground is one of our 13-year-olds, who gained a grade A in Astronomy.

It was particularly pleasing to be able to make so many Academic Excellence Awards at the start of the new school year.  These Awards go to those students, now in our Lower Sixth, who achieved 7 or more As or A*s at GCSE.  In all, there were 9 students who achieved this in their GCSE exams – nearly one in six of all the pupils in the cohort. Six if these nine students have remained with us in the Lower Sixth. 

In terms of value added, if your child attended Rishworth School to sit GCSEs, he/she would, on average, have gained half a GCSE grade higher per subject, in total 4.5 grades higher, than he or she would have done in the average school, irrespective of whether the school was state, independent, selective, non-selective, single-sex or co-educational.

At Rishworth we have – and are committed to having - not only academically-gifted students but also a wide spectrum of aptitudes, including some pupils who are singularly disadvantaged – for example by not having English as their first, or even their second, language. This makes our results all the more pleasing and the pupils and the staff all the more deserving of praise. However good the statistics are, what we really care about – and what we believe parents and pupils really care about - is how each pupil fares relative to his or her own potential. And that is where Rishworth truly excels.