Top class! QE’s GCSE results impress at the highest grades while also showing strength in depth

Year 11 pupils maintained the superb record of Queen Elizabeth’s School with another very strong set of GCSE results.

More than three-fifths of the examinations taken (61.4%) at the School were awarded the highest possible grade, level 9, while 95.4% received grades 7–9.

The 192-strong year group’s performance was strong across the board. Underpinned by truly exceptional results for Mathematics and the sciences, QE also has the top scorer nationally in GCSE English Language this year.

Headmaster Neil Enright said: “This is a very good set of outcomes indeed, reflecting the talent and hard work of our pupils, the expertise and commitment of QE staff, and the support of their families.

“My sincere congratulations go to Year 11, and we look forward to the boys beginning their A-levels in September, joining our largest-ever Sixth Form.

“Today’s results build on the excellent A-level outcomes last week, which saw QE placed as the top secondary school (state or independent) in The Times.”

The GCSE results show that:

• 85.5% of GCSEs taken were awarded grades 9–8 (both equivalent to the old A* grade);
• All 171 boys taking GCSE Chemistry achieved either a 9 (159 candidates) or 8 (12) grade;
• 50 boys sat Latin GCSE this year, well over twice as many as in 2024; 33 of them achieved grade 9.

Mr Enright added: “What is truly remarkable about these results is that they were achieved by boys who make time alongside their academic studies to take part in a huge range of co-curricular activities through our QE Flourish programme.

“It is the breadth of the whole QE experience which enables us to fulfil our mission ‘to produce young men who are confident, able and responsible’.”