When only those on roll by year 11 were included, sponsored academies had a 46.3 per
cent pass rate for five GCSEs at A * to C.
The school has one teacher for every three students and has a 100 per
cent pass rate for the International Baccalaureate qualification.
On top of the 60 per
cent pass rate for GCSEs, Morgan explained the new «Progress 8» accountability measure for secondary school's, which is designed to show a child's progress from primary to secondary education.
There was a 76.7 per cent pass rate among the 92,555 candidates who sat the older Higher qualification this summer, compared to 79.2 per
cent pass rate for the 107,295 candidates who sat the newer qualification.
Not exact matches
His completion
rate for these long
passes is just 23.43 per
cent, though.
In 2007, the overall A * - C
pass rate for all UK entries increased from 62.4 per
cent to 63.3 per
cent, with one in five students achieving the highest A grade.
Mr Johnson admitted that the overall decline in entries «although not wholly unexpected, is disappointing», but noted that the A * to C
pass rate for languages has risen by 3.8 per
cent.
For example, in the final against Italy, Dunga
passed the ball about 120 times with a 70 per
cent success
rate.
Despite criticisms of the newly introduced maths exam, which the Scottish Qualifications Authority admitted was «unusually hard» and caused them to drop the C
pass rate to just 34 per
cent, overall the newly introduced qualifications have been questioned
for being easier than the older exams.
Schools that have opted out of the new assessment will have their performance judged on
pass rates for later exam results that only around 10 per
cent of schools would meet.
However, the
pass rate for maths, which has also been made harder, has risen from 61.5 per
cent to 68.9 per
cent, the BBC has reported.
The recalculated results reduced the
pass rate of Harris Academy Greenwich in London by 15 per
cent for the cohort taking exams in 2011.
The minor tweaks that occur at national level — setting the «C grade» boundary at one point higher to reduce a
pass rate by 0.3 per
cent rather than to see it rise by 2.5 per
cent,
for example — may be a minor tweak nationally, but in some of our academies and schools this causes a tsunami effect.
The 2016 GCSE results are out and show a sharp fall of 2.1 percentage points in the
pass rate, down to 66.9 per
cent for A * - C grades.
With low federal reimbursement
rates for school meals (42
cents for paid meals, $ 2.81
for reduced - price meals and $ 3.21
for free meals), the added cost of healthy food gets
passed on to families that can least afford it.
In August, the national average
pass rate was announced by the Joint Council
for Qualifications as being 67 per
cent, but the recently released data describes it as 83 per
cent.