GCSE Results

At St Marylebone we are immensely proud of the achievements of all of our students. We have a comprehensive intake of students who go on to achieve results that place the school in the top 10% of schools in England.

The St Marylebone CE School performance tables can be viewed on the DfE website.

Highlights of the GCSE results in 2023 include 47.2 % of all grades were grades 9-7. The average grade is 6+.

88% of students achieve 9-4 in both English and Maths. 72% of students achieve 9-5 in both English and Maths.

The tables below show the percentage of grades at grade 7 or above (old grade A) and at grade 4 or above (old grade C) by subject in 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2019.

Attainment 8	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
The St Marylebone  CE School	60.8	62.2	67.0	67.8	65.2	62.8
Westminster schools	52.9	53.4	n/a	n/a	57.3	54.1
State schools in England	46.5	46.7	n/a	n/a	48.8	46.2

GCSE results 2023

GCSE Course	Number of Entries	% of Grades 9 -4	% of Grades  9 -7
Art	67	99	81
Biology	29	100	90
Business Studies	41	93	42
Chemistry	29	100	86
Child Development	17	94	35
Computing	16	88	38
Dance	32	94	57
Drama	49	94	57
Design Technology	17	88	41
Design Technology Food	17	71	12
English Language	165	93	42
English Literature	165	95	46
French	43	88	51
Geography	94	96	50
History	78	94	58
iMedia	25	76	32
Latin	16	100	40
Maths	166	88	34
Music	17	94	59
Physical Education	18	44	6
Physics	29	100	86
Religious Studies	160	89	59
Religious Studies – Short	268	87	31
Science (Combined)	268	87	31
Spanish	44	80	48
Textiles	16	100	38
Summary	1618	91	47

GCSE results 2022

GCSE Course	Number of Entries	% of Grades 9 -4	% of Grades  9 -7
Art	76	100	77.6
Biology	29	93.1	75.9
Business Studies	41	95.1	58.5
Chemistry	28	96.4	67.9
Computing	17	88.2	47.1
Dance	36	100	69.4
Drama	30	100	76.7
Design Technology	25	100	44
Design Technology Food	15	93.3	33.3
English Language	166	97.6	46.4
English Literature	164	95.7	51.2
French	45	99	79
Geography	81	96.3	70.4
History	86	91.9	54.7
Latin	10	100	60
Maths	166	91.6	44
Music	25	88	60
Physical Education	12	91.7	25
Physics	28	100	75
Religious Studies	158	95.6	63.9
Religious Studies – Short	5	100	40
Science (Combined)	270	88.5	46.3
Spanish	73	98.6	61.6
Textiles	15	100	53.3
Summary	1630	93.7	55

GCSE results 2021

GCSE Course	Number of Entries	% of Grades 9 -4	% of Grades  9 -7
Art	59	100	66
Biology	21	100	91
Business Studies	34	100	59
Chemistry	21	100	91
Computing	10	100	70
Dance	36	100	81
Drama	48	98	71
Design Technology	16	100	60
Design Technology Food	15	93	56
English Language	150	97	51
English Literature	150	97	58
French	45	99	79
Geography	92	92	58
History	62	100	79
Latin	3	100	100
Maths	150	90	47
Music	32	100	63
Physical Education	14	100	64
Physics	21	100	76
Religious Studies	147	96	62
Science (Combined)	256	91	43
Spanish	43	95	74
Textiles	9	100	56
OCR national Child Development	28	89	43
OCR national Information Technology	15	93	53
Academic Project Qualification	6	50	16
Summary	1483	96	57

GCSE results 2020

Name	Number of Entries	% 9 – 7	% 9 – 4
Art	66	74	100
Biology	31	87	100
Business Studies	24	63	100
Chemistry	31	87	100
Computing	11	73	100
Dance	27	63	100
Drama	43	63	98
Design & Technology	23	52	100
Food Technology	13	31	100
English Language	148	56	99
English Literature	147	56	99
French	28	79	100
Geography	97	66	95
History	79	66	96
Maths	147	42	91
Music	19	53	100
Physical Education	11	46	100
Physics	31	84	100
Religious Studies	150	64	88
Spanish	46	70	100
Textiles	16	44	100
Science (Combined)	232	44	90
OCR national Child Development	15	20	87
OCR national InformationTechnology	16	31	81
Academic Project Qualification	8	25	63

GCSE Performance Measures

A school’s GCSE performance can be evaluated by a number of measurements.

Attainment 8 (A8) is based on the GCSE grades students achieve in a broad range of 8 qualifying subjects including English, Maths, Science, Humanities and Languages.

Attainment 8	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
The St Marylebone  CE School	61.3	60.8	62.2	67.0	67.8	65.2	62.8
Westminster schools	52.6	52.9	53.4	n/a	n/a	57.3	54.1
State schools in England	46.3	46.5	46.7	n/a	n/a	48.8	46.2

What do these numbers mean?

These numbers show how the average grade nationally is grade 4, for Westminster schools the average grade is 5 and for St Marylebone, it is grade 6. In 2020 and 2021, results were not published nationally as students were awarded Centre Assessed Grades.

The Progress 8 (P8) figure is a measure that shows the progress made by students in a given year from their Year 6 scores to their GCSE scores. Our Progress 8 scores put us in the top 5% of schools nationally.  The Progress 8 table below shows that for every GCSE our students take they achieve more than half a grade above other students with the same Key Stage 2 scores in England.

Progress 8	2017	2018	2019	2022	2023
The St Marylebone CE School	+0.6	+0.6	+0.84	+0.8	+0.73
Westminster schools	+0.47	+0.47	+0.48	+0.48	+0.48
State schools nationally	-0.03	-0.02	-0.03	-0.03	-0.03

The 2020 and 2021 Progress 8 figures have not been published nationally and so it is not possible to give a definitive number but using school data benchmarking tools which draw national comparisons, we are confident that our results continue to be in the top 5% nationally.

Progress for students classified as “disadvantaged” is also well above national progress levels:

Progress 8 (disadvantaged students)	2017	2018	2019	2022
The St Marylebone CE School disadvantaged students	+0.2	+0.47	+0.37	+0.43

Ebacc (English Baccalaureate)                   

The EBacc (English Baccalaureate) is another performance measure for schools.  A student is considered to have entered for the English Baccalaureate if they entered for qualifications in English, maths, sciences, a language and either history or geography. The English Baccalaureate (EBacc) is not a test or qualification; it is a measure used to provide information about a particular range of qualifications.

Students at St Marylebone have access to a wide, broad and enriching curriculum. At GCSE students are given four free choices of GCSE subjects. All students have access to humanities and modern foreign languages. Nationally, to be counted in the Ebacc performance measure, students must take both one humanity and one language. 

At St Marylebone, we do not compel all students to take a humanity and a language at GCSE. The free choice of four subjects at St Marylebone means that some students choose to take both History and Geography instead of a language, or they may decide to take two languages and forgo History or Geography, or not do a humanity or language at all.  These students’ results don’t qualify for the Ebacc.  This means that the St Marylebone Ebacc figures match national average figures and that our students succeed in high-quality courses that they really want to do. It is our ambition to increase the number of students being entered for the Ebacc. 

Ebacc	2017	2018	2019	2022	2023
The St Marylebone CE School	56%	57%	49%	51%	44.3%
Westminster schools	46%	51%	56%	67.7.%	69.5%
National	38%	38%	40%	38.7%	39.3%

Our students achieve exceptionally well in languages and humanities – as well as in all the non-Ebacc courses we offer, which include Art, Textiles, Dance, Drama, Music, PE, Design Technology, Computing.