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High grades for Business Academy
The Business Academy Bexley’s GCSE results in the top 25% of schools nationally
· 32% of Year 11 students achieved 5 A* - C passes at GCSE. Fischer Family Trust *1 predicted this figure would be 28% if the progress of The Academy’s students was similar to the progress made by pupils in the ‘top 25%’ of schools nationally.
· 27% of Year 11 students achieved 5 A* - C passes at GCSE including English and Maths. This is an 11% improvement on 2005’s result of 16%. Fischer Family Trust predicted this figure to be 16% if the progress of The Academy’s students was similar to the progress made by pupils in the ‘top 25%’ of schools nationally.
· The average point score per pupil is 308 – Up 1 point on 2005
The average capped*2 point score per pupil is 222 – up 2 points on 2005
Key Stage 3
57% of students achieved level 5 and above in Science Key Stage 3 tests. This is an increase of 5% on 2005’s results.
65% of students achieved level 5 and above in English Key Stage 3 tests. This is an increase of 10% on 2005’s results.
Based on Fisher Family Trust data students made better progress in English and Science than those in similar schools nationally.
69% of students achieved level 5 and above in Maths Key Stage 3 tests. This is an increase of 10% on 2005’s results and puts The Academy in the top 25% of schools nationally in terms of progress made from KS2 to KS3 and exceeding Fischer Family Trust predictions by 5%.
Principal Duncan Spalding says, “We are delighted with our results. Both the Key Stage 3 and GSCE results show undisputedly that our students are making good or excellent progress based on their prior attainment. For 32% of our students to achieve 5 A* - C passes when 61% of them are on the Special Needs Register is an outstanding achievement and one that we are extremely proud of. They are a credit to themselves, their families, to The Academy and to their teachers.
The increase in the number of students achieving 5 A* - C passes in English and Maths is the most encouraging of all. This clearly demonstrates that we are working hard to ensure that our students have the literacy and numeracy skills needed to be successful in the world of work and in their daily lives.
Our students are achieving comparable standards to other similar non-selective schools both in our own Borough of Bexley and nationally. Indeed in terms of progress made we outperform many other schools locally and nationally. Our aim is for our students to achieve well above the national average, but in a catchment area that is in the top 20% of deprived areas in England and a selective Borough where 30% of all 11 year olds opt to go Grammar School, this will take time. The Academy has made an enormous amount of progress in a very short space of time. We have made improvements and are continuing to sustain these improvements year on year.”
A-LEVEL SUCCESS IN BEXLEY
The announcement of the A-level results yesterday brought good news for hundreds of students across Bexley.
Although the returns for all the borough’s schools have still not been made and the final picture is as yet incomplete, it is already likely that they have at least matched the excellent results achieved last year.
Although a substantial number of post-16 students in Bexley follow other, largely vocational, courses in one of the local colleges of further education, an increasing proportion stay on after Year 11 to study for A-levels - and well over 1,000 of these sat for A and AS level exams at the end of two years’ study this summer, the greatest number yet.
The percentage of these Year 13 students gaining at least one ‘higher level’ pass at grades A-C was 71.1%, compared to 67.6% last year.
The percentage of pupils gaining at least one pass at grades A-E, was 98.2%, compared to the national average of 96.6%.
“I am pleased to congratulate everyone who got the results they wanted and who has contributed to these excellent results for the borough as a whole,” says Cllr Ian Clement, the Leader of Bexley Council. “I know how hard young people work to pass these exams and I wish them every success for the future.”
The figures quoted do not include the results for St Luke’s College and Trinity School, or some of the advanced vocational qualifications (AVCs) that some schools now offer.
Post A-level advice for students is available from the Department for Education and Skills website at www.dfes.gov.uk and will be on offer at most of the schools and colleges in the borough.
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