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THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 2023 | EXPRESS & STAR
WHAT NOW?
A 12- PAGE COMMERCIAL GCSE SPECIAL E XPLORING YOUR POST-16 OPTIONS
Celebrating a bumper crop of top grades 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 per cent 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 per cent 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. The percentage achieving 9s and 8s was also up nine per cent on pre-Covid results. Acting Head, Nic Anderson commented: “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 two Cambridge Technicals. We look forward to welcoming our GCSE students into our thriving Sixth Form and continuing their onward journey.” Students in other schools are still welcome to apply for Sixth Form study this September. Call the Admissions team on 01902 422939 to find out more.
Jasraaj Sandhar, Elliot Woodall and Eve Beards, all aged 16, celebrate their GCSE results at Wolverhampton Grammar School
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Securing places at the most prestigious universities including Oxford and Cambridge