Exams and performance
The Year 11 students of 2025 enjoyed a truly remarkable set of results. Their willingness to embrace the learning opportunities they were offered and to work with the staff of the school helped them to produce some of the highest exam performances ever seen at Kingsmeadow Community School.
At Key Stage 5, students averaged a grade C. All of them achieved the grades they needed to move on to the next stage in education or employment, with 88% of the university applicants securing their first choice university. A wonderful achievement coming from their hard work.
At Key Stage 4 we saw some excellent performances, such as: over 30% of the students achieving a pass or better in the European Baccalaureate; forty-four of the top grades of 8 or 9; half of the students achieving well in both English and Mathematics. As with the Year 13 students, we are pleased to say that a majority of our Year 11 students achieved what they needed to move on to their chosen next steps in education or employment. We are looking forward to welcoming many of them back to our Sixth Form next year, in what will be a very strong Year 12 cohort.
Some headlines
- According to FFT comparisons, Year 11 students’ overall academic progress was in the top 25% of all schools in the country.
- Over 84% of our students were entered for the highest academic award – the EBacc. This is more than double the national average for secondary schools.
- Music, and Hospitality and Catering results were in the top 5% of schools’ results in the country.
- PE GCSE results were in the top 15% of schools’ results in the country.
- Computer Studies and Engineering GCSE results were in the top 30% of schools’ results in the country.
It was a pleasure to welcome back our Year 11 and Year 13 students in summer 2024 as they came in to school to collect their exam results. We shared in their joy at their successes and supported them with advice and contacts for their next steps. We are so proud of everything that they have achieved in their time here at Kingsmeadow Community School. Our students have displayed our core values of Integrity, Resilience and Respect, which has led to their successes in this year’s results.
At Key Stage 5, we were so pleased that every student achieved enough to move on to their next step in life. All students achieved high enough grades to get into university, with almost every student getting into either their first or second choice. A wonderful achievement coming from their hard work.
At Key Stage 4 we saw some excellent performances, such as: over 30% of the students achieving a pass or better in the European Baccalaureate; forty-four of the top grades of 8 or 9; half of the students achieving well in both English and Mathematics. As with the Year 13 students, we are pleased to say that most of our Year 11 students achieved what they needed to move on to their chosen next steps in education or employment. We are looking forward to welcoming many of them back to our Sixth Form next year, in what will be a very strong Year 12 cohort.
At Key Stage 5 students successfully achieved their first choice UCAS places. Almost one third of all grades achieved were at least an A and two thirds achieved a B or higher, with notable successes in Business, Psychology and Sociology.
Other successes in Year 13 included Skye Forster who achieved a superb set of A Level outcomes achieving AAA and plans to go on to study Dentistry. Joe Wright and Shea McGuinness, who were supported by the Special Educational Needs team, both performed brilliantly in their BTEC and A Levels achieving Level 3 Distinction* and Distinctions and moved on to Northumbria University to study Psychology.
At GCSE level, English, Maths and Science performed well with science continuing its upward trajectory in outcomes. Spanish once again out-performed comparative data from previous years. Ninety-one percent of the cohort entered the European Baccalaureate (EBACC), with 27% achieving the qualification. The result was above previous year’s outcomes and was above the national average.
Notable successes in Year 11 include Gracie Lauder, who achieved ten strong passes, which included four Grade 9s, which was superb.
