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Exam Results and School Performance

Key Stage 4 assessment results

This includes:   

  • Progress 8 score (where available)  

  • Attainment 8 score  

  • Percentage of pupils who got a good pass (5+) in English and Maths 

  • Percentage of pupils who got a good pass (4+) in English and Maths 

  • You will also find details of the percentage of pupils achieving the English Baccalaureate combination of subjects (a GCSE grade C or above in English, Maths, two Sciences, a language, and History or Geography) and the percentage of students entered in these subjects. 

GCSE Results

  2024  2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018
% 5+ in English and Maths 36.54 40.27 36.95 54.85 54.68 52.00 52.00
% 4+ in English and Maths 58.08 62.00 68.00 72.57 74.88 71.00 75.00
Progress 8 Score -0.04* -0.13 -0.45 - - 0.22 0.17
Attainment 8 44.75 43.27 46.18 51.55 52.03 52.50 53.07
English Baccalaureate % Entered 25.77 20.26 15.76 28.69 36.45 33.33 53.51
English Baccalaureate Average Points Score 4.76 3.91 3.84 4.42 4.62 4.6 4.8

*The 2024 Progress 8 Score is ‘unvalidated’ and will likely be adjusted when official Department of Education figures are issued around November 2024.

Key stage 5 assessment results
A Level Performance
  2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019
% A* - A 14 16 30 41 31 27
% A* - B 33 40 59 64 61 51
% A* - E 94 99 100 99 99 100

2020-2021 Teacher assessed grades

2022 National standards fixed at a midpoint between 2021 and pre-pandemic grading

2023 National grading returned to 2019 levels

 

Performance Measures

Please see this link to the Department for Education performance measures website:

Performance Tables

Faringdon Community College Performance

Given the uneven impact of the COVID pandemic on school and college performance data, the government has advised to avoid making direct comparisons between the performance data for one school or college and another or to data from previous years when looking at exam results in 2020 and 2021.

 

Destinations

Year 11 destinations 2024

Destination %
Abingdon and Witney College  6
Apprenticeship 5
Cirencester College  14
City of Oxford College 9
EET referral 2
FCC Sixth Form 35
Hartpury College 0.4
New College, Swindon 16
Swindon UTC 0.4
Moved overseas 1.2
Velocity Academy 0.4
Precision Football Academy 0.8
Other school 5
Other 2
Unknown 0.4

 

Year 13 destinations 2024

Destination %
Higher Education 59
Apprenticeship/employment 22
Travelling (gap year) 2.7
Further Education 1.4
Repeating Y13 9.7
Art Foundation 1.4
Studying overseas 1.4
Other 1.4