Pupils from Hydesville Tower School in Walsall are celebrating excellent GCSE results today (Thursday 25th August 2022), with half of all grades at a grade 7 to 9 (the equivalent of A/A*/A**).
90% of pupils scored Grade 8 or 9 in Religious Studies, and there were high levels of success in Chemistry, French, Maths, and Physics, where the significant majority of pupils secured grade 7 or above. As well as the outstanding quality of scores, the value added measures representing the improvements made since joining the school show that every pupil has gained significantly by being at Hydesville.
Success this year has been even more poignant for pupils due to the significant time of disruption to their studies due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As the first group for three years to sit examinations, they went into the summer knowing that grade boundaries would be more stringent than 2020 and 2021.
Read more about our 2022 GCSE results here.
Our 2022 GCSE Highlights
91%
Grades awarded at 7+ in Maths (the previous A grade equivalent)
(vs. 21% National Average)
96%
Pupils achieving G4+ (inc Eng & Maths)
50%
Grades awarded at G7+
(vs. 27% National Average)
93%
Grades awarded at G5+
(vs. 60% National Average)
Exam results are one important measure of a school’s performance and we are proud to report consistently top notch grades.
Hydesville Tower Senior School is consistently ranked as the third highest achieving Secondary School in the borough in the GCSE league tables published by the Department for Education. The league tables show that the school’s Attainment 8 score – which gauges achievement across eight qualifications including English and Mathematics – far exceeds the national average.
Although extremely proud of our position in the GCSE performance tables, there is another measure which is of greater importance to us; the amount of progress each child makes. ‘Value added’ is a measure of the progress pupils make between different stages of their education; if pupils perform beyond expectations this is reflected in a high ‘value added’ score. The Senior School is within the top three per cent nationally when it comes to adding value to a child’s level of attainment.