Thursday 20th September 2007
National surveys of exam results have again confirmed that Tonbridge School is one of the best schools in the country. The Financial Times survey of A Level results makes Tonbridge the number two boys' boarding school and twentieth overall based on quality and quantity of A Levels. More specifically, the Sutton trust puts Tonbridge School as sixteenth overall in the country for places won at Oxbridge over the last 5 years with 21.9% of our leavers over this period going on to Oxford or Cambridge
The recent government league tables, published on January 10th 2008, are misleading and cannot be used for assessing the true performance of a school's pupils. The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) refuses to acknowledge the International GCSE, despite it being well recognised by Universities, and so the government excludes these results from the league tables. Tonbridge School follows the International GCSE Maths syllabus, as the course is both stretching and stimulating.
If our results in IGCSE maths had been recognised, as they are by universities, then the relevant percentage for Tonbridge School would have been 100. Our GCSE results this year were the best ever; the average GCSE results were the equivalent of 1A* and 9As per pupil. 100% of the candidates achieved at least 8 GCSEs at grades A* to C.