Results Summary

Senior School (GCSE/IGCSE)

The Department for Education and Skills has now produced its Performance Tables for 2006 and our pupils have, once again, produced results far above the national average, enjoying yet another successful year of results at both GCSE and A level.

This year, King’s joined many other independent schools throughout the country in deciding that our pupils would study Maths at IGCSE (International GCSE), the world’s most popular international qualification for 14 to 16 year olds.  This decision was made to offer a more rigorous paper to pupils than the less demanding Maths GCSE.  The IGCSE examinations prepare pupils better for AS and A2 level study and are recognised by academic institutions and employers around the world and are preferred to GCSEs by all British universities.  We will be offering Science at IGCSE from September 2007 for similar reasons.

We were delighted with the results of this initiative with our pupils gaining a 95% pass rate (grades A*-C).  We also had a 95% pass rate in English Literature and an 89% pass rate in English Language.  Overall, pupils achieved an average of 8.2 passes per pupil; this figure was 31% higher than the national average. 

For those of you who have been studying the recently-published DfES Performance Tables, you might like to note that, had IGCSE Maths been included in their tables, the figure in the column headed “5 or more grades A*-C including English and Maths” would have contained 88% against King’s School, Rochester; this figure puts us in the same league as the Kent and Medway Grammar Schools (who are, of course highly selective in their entry requirements) and well above most other schools in the county.

Senior School (A level)

We have come to expect top grades at A level and this year was no exception with pupils achieving a 98% overall pass rate.  Out of 192 examinations, there were only three failures: 18 subjects achieved a 100% pass rate.

Preparatory School (KS2)

Following the publication of the Primary School (Key Stage 2) Achievement and Attainment Tables 2006, I am delighted to announce that, for the third successive year, King’s Preparatory School out-performed every Junior and Primary School in Medway.  With an average point score per child of 30.94, we exceeded the average for the Local Authority (27.2) and the National Average of 27.8.  Moreover, King’s once again finished in the Top Ten for all schools in Kent.

To have finished ahead of the 63 Junior and Primary Schools maintained by Medway Council is a considerable achievement given the wide ability range of our intake and the breadth of the Preparatory School curriculum.

The continued success of King’s School, Rochester is a tribute to the dedication and expertise of the staff and to the application and hard work of our pupils.