GCSEs: Oundle School

Thirty-five per cent of GCSE grades at Oundle School were a grade 9, the highest possible.

Pupils at the school, the third largest independent co-educational day and boarding school in England, are celebrating after receiving their results today.

Students were unable to take their exams this year because of the Covid-19 pandemic with teachers instead predicting how they would have performed.

At Oundle 35 per cent of grades were a 9, 64 per cent were a 9 or 8 and 84 per cent were between a 9 and a 7.

An Oundle School spokesman said: "Results nationwide this year have clearly been subject to more scrutiny and contention than ever. Our thoughts are with all pupils and their families, many of whom are still having to come to terms with the changes to external moderation.

"We sincerely regret that these bright young people were not able to have the satisfaction of proving themselves in formal examinations.

"As a school, our focus from the outset was on deriving meaningful and realistic results for both our GCSE and A-Level cohorts. These have now been validated by the examination boards and the pupils deserve to be congratulated not only for their results but for their resilience and forbearance under the most unusual of circumstances."

Headteacher Sarah Kerr-Dineen added: “These pupils more than any deserved to have their hard work and abilities recognised fairly after a term of disruption and disappointment that was not of their making. I congratulate them all.”