Sentences with phrase «higher average gcse»

It also discovered that: students who undertake Silver CREST have higher average GCSE grades compared to those who did not do a CREST Silver Award; the sample for this analysis included 2.4 million Key Stage 4 students (of whom 3,800 took CREST Silver) and 1.0 million Key Stage 5 students (of whom 2,300 took a Silver CREST Award); and that half (50 per cent) of students taking Silver CREST Awards were young women.

According to provisional figures results, local authority schools have achieved higher average GCSE results than free schools.

Not exact matches

Last year, the school celebrated A-Level and GCSE results far higher than Wales's average, with 88 % of its sixth form achieving A * - B grades.

«There are always caveats with this type of analysis, but the results suggest that students participating in the Silver CREST Awards achieve about half a grade higher on their best science GCSE result on average compared with a statistically - similar control group.

Existing research suggests that these aims are being met, with pupils at schools that substantially increased their EBacc rates showing higher average attainment in GCSE English and maths and lower probabilities of leaving education after the age of 16.

Families that make more choices, on average, receive a place at schools with higher GCSE results, it says.

Most notably, schools with higher levels of per - pupil GCSE arts entries got above average results in the EBacc, Progress 8 and Attainment 8, suggesting that the best state secondary schools in England are those that combine high expectations in a core of academic subjects with a strong focus on the arts.

In fact, the number of arts GCSEs being taken in 2015/16 was higher than in 2011/12 when the EBacc had only just been announced, and the proportion of students taking at least one arts GCSE in this period has increased by 7.4 per cent, while the average number of arts GCSEs studied by each pupil has increased by 5.4 per cent.

The trust is seeking to establish a primary school built upon the same high expectations and educational excellence of Yavneh College which achieves GCSE results significantly above both local and national averages and is the highest performing non-selective secondary state school in the UK for A levels.

Deeper examination also shows that based on the average grade per entry, the GCSE achievement gap widened or remained static from 2013 to 2014 for all pupil premium children — except those with high prior attainment.

Using baseline data gathered as the pupils join the Senior School in Year 7, GCSE performance of each pupil is, on average, more than one and a half grades higher per subject than would be expected from pupils of similar ability.