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GCSE Results

In 2008, 41,748 candidates from 639 ISC schools took 327,696 GCSEs. Candidates took an average of 7.9 GCSE subjects each.

More than one entry in four (27.6%) received the A* grade, up from 27.1 in 2007 (compared to 6.9% nationally, up from 6.5% in 2007).
58.4% of all exam entries were graded A* or A, up from 56.2% in 2007 (compared to 21.0% nationally, up from 19.9% in 2007).

In addition, in 2008 pupils at ISC schools took more than 40,000 IGCSEs, up from around 15,000 in 2007; they took an average of 1.7 subjects each.

Considering the GCSE and IGCSE results from pupils at ISC schools together:

95.3% achieved grades A* to C, up from 94.9% in 2007 (nationally, 65.7% were graded A* to C, compared with 63.3% in 2007).
93.0% achieved 5 results grades A*-C including Maths and English, and 81.9% achieved 5 results at grades A*-C including Maths, English, a Science and a Modern Foreign Language.
In 231 schools (41.8% of schools supplying data), every pupil achieved five or more A*-C grades. In a further 168 schools (a further 30.4% of the total), 95% or more of pupils achieved this standard.

Access ISC GCSE Results Tables here.