Celebrating a bumper crop of top grades

24 Aug 2023

Published in: Member News

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GCSE students from Wolverhampton Grammar School are celebrating a bumper crop of top grades, defying national trends.

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It’s been just a week since Wolverhampton Grammar School was celebrating its best A* - B grades at A Level in formal exams for 10 years. Today it was the turn of GCSE students to rejoice as WGS once again defied national trends in achieving a bumper crop of top grades, with 83% of the cohort awarded grades 9 - 6 (A*- B).

The return to pre-pandemic grading was set to reduce the number of students achieving the very best 9 – 7 grades (A*/A equivalent) but for students at Wolverhampton Grammar this was up by 15% on 2019. Two students achieved a fantastic 11 straight 9s and nine students got 10 or 11 9s and 8s each.

WGS’s cohort of 82 students sat GCSEs in 19 different subjects including Drama, Computer Science, Design Technology and Business, alongside the usual combination of Sciences, English and Maths. The percentage of the cohort achieving 9s and 8s was also up 9% on pre-covid results, as well as over one third of students coming away with nine or more grade 7s and above.

Acting Head, Nic Anderson commented, “Our students undoubtedly still feel the effects of the lockdown years but at WGS we have ensured that there has been no lost learning and that students have been fully prepared for the return to formal examinations. Our GCSE results today are up significantly on pre-pandemic levels, and we are extremely proud of all our Year 11s. We offer a real breadth of GCSE subjects at WGS which continues into our Sixth Form with over 20 A Levels and 2 Cambridge Technicals. We look forward to welcoming our GCSE students into our thriving Sixth Form and continuing their onward journey to higher education or the workplace."

Students receiving their GCSE results in other schools are still welcome to apply to Wolverhampton Grammar School for Sixth Form study this September. Call the Admissions team on 01902 422939 to find out more.