Exam & Key Stage Results
The Forest School A-Level & GCSE Results 2024
Another set of record results, as Forest students' attainment climbs in Summer 2024
The results the students have achieved deserve the highest accolade. Some of the highlights this year based on provisional data show our students beat last year's success at the highest grade point by an impressive 10%. This stands out against the national picture this year, with the pass rate across England falling to 67.6% grades at 4/C and above.
Forest students celebration outstanding results include: Nathan with nine grade 9s, and an 8, Aditya with seven grade 9s, Mohamed with six grade 8s and four grade 9s. Special mention goes to Sam , who exceeded the grade boundary for a grade 9 in French among a set of exceptional results, and Arthur and Charlie who both exceeded the grade boundary for a grade 9 in maths by a margin.
It is another year where our computer science students have excelled, with results that indicate performance in the top 25% of schools nationally. Our science results see targets exceeded, as students excel at grades 9-7, with over 80% securing the highest grades in biology. Our Spanish and French students have succeeded at new levels, and we are particularly proud of those students securing the grade 8s and 9s in French and Spanish. This has impacted our success with the EBacc Average Point Score, one of the government's performance indicators. Our continued success in the arts subjects show student progress to be well above the national average, and our improved progress in geography show students exceeding national average with more students again securing more than a strong pass in this subject. The cohort saw exceptional individual performances in Cantonese, Arabic, Russian and Urdu to name a few.
Shirley Austin said "We are delighted with the A Level and BTEC results and the Year 11 boys have triumphed too. They were not untouched by the impact of Covid, with significant time out of their Key Stage 3 education, as schools went into lockdown. Our students worked to make up the difference and make that progress happen. They have lived up our 'Aspire to Become Elite' ethos, as new records in subjects have been set by this cohort. These results stand them in good stead for their next steps here with us in September. It will be an historic start to the academic year at The Forest. Congratulations to all our Forest family; staff, students and their families."
Forest Sixth Form secure future success with record number of our students securing their chose University places
The Forest School students and staff are celebrating a fantastic set of results this year.
Over a third of Forest A level students achieved the highest grades, in a series of exams that saw challenging grade boundaries. Some of our most outstanding attainment and progress comes in the traditionally academic subjects, with notable performance in Economics, Chemistry, Computer Science, Modern Languages and Geography. We are delighted with our continued record of success in the Arts subjects. Our students' achievement with the Extended Project Qualification saw a record of success with 100% of the students securing the top grades. Forest BTEC results place the students’ progress in the top 25% of schools nationally. This morning the Sixth Form centre has been full of celebration, as staff and students share in the results of their consistent hard work and aspiring to become elite.
Our students have secured places in the top universities; Sophie is going to University of Warwick to read Languages and Linguistics, Uzair will go to Royal Holloway for Computing and Mathematics, Teah to the University of Bristol to read Biochemistry, Bille to the University of Bristol for Economics, Sam to the University of Loughborough for Medicine and Pharmaceutical Chemistry. Over 75% of our students have taken up places at their chosen Universities. Other successes include students who are taking up apprenticeships with national businesses, and those with planned gap years before pursuing Higher Education places.
Shirley Austin, Headteacher, congratulated all the students, families and staff whose commitment has led to another year we are all immensely proud of. We all ASPIRE to support students in achieving what they want in life, and we are dedicated to this ethos across the school. Our co-educational sixth form is clearly a fundamental and successful part of the school. The new Year 7 co-educational cohort, making Forest school history this September, will follow this year groups’ success when they complete their Forest journey in 2031. More records will be broken.