A-level results gap between state and private school lowest since 2022 ...Middle East

This year’s results show 76.5 per cent of state school entries were graded as at least a C, compared with 89.8 per cent of private school entries.

Outside of 2020 to 2022, when grades were affected by changes to assessments caused by Covid-19, this is the lowest the attainment gap has been since comparable records began in 2019.

The Independent Schools Council said fees were 22 per cent higher in January than they had been the year before due to the VAT rise.

The attainment gap also shrunk for the top grades, from 23.9 percentage points last year to 23.1.

Increased academic achievement among state school pupils drove the proportion of A-level entries awarded A or A* to its highest level on record outside of the pandemic-affected years.

A slightly lower proportion of private school pupils received the highest A* grades since last year, compared with an increase among state school pupils.

Sir Ian Bauckham, chief regulator of Ofqual, England’s exams regulator, said the standard of work required to achieve grades has “held constant” since 2023.

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Sir Ian said: “Students this year have got the grades they deserve, and their grade will hold its value over time because it represents a stable standard of achievement.”

A record number of students were accepted into their first-choice university, while boys outperformed girls in terms of top grades for the first time in seven years.

Last year, girls led boys by 0.4 percentage points (28.0 per cent for girls, 27.6 per cent for boys).

Across the regions of England, London saw the highest proportion of entries awarded grades of A or A* (32.1 per cent, up from 31.3 per cent in 2024) while north-east England had the lowest (22.9 per cent, down from 23.9 per cent in 2024).

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