King's Chester is the one of the top independent, private day schools for boys and girls. It has Junior (preparatory), Senior and Sixth Form sections and takes pupils from Cheshire, Shropshire, the Wirral and North Wales. It consistently achieves somes of the best academic results in the area; offers academic bursaries; and is well known for its sports, rowing and music.
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A Level Results Day

At King's, we believe in giving parents a true reflection of our success and have gone further than most other schools in opening up all the measures of successes we have at our disposal.

A Level Results

Over a fifth of students gained A* grades and almost 40% of the 111 King's Sixth Formers gained A/A* grade in 3 A levels or more.

5 A levels were achieved by Miriam Bowen (4 A* and 1A) who is going read Mathematics at Warwick and Luke Howarth (3 A* and 2A) who is going to study English at Oxford. A further 7 girls and 8 boys gained 4 A/A* grades and 14 girls and 17 boys gained 3A*/A grades with 2 of these: James Barnard and Ryan Thompson achieving all 3 at A* grade.

Hattie Webb gained 4 A levels including 1A* and 2A and is going to study Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge, James Goulbourne achieved 3 A* grades and is going to read Economics at Cambridge and Bradley Davies achieved 4 A levels including 2A* and 1A and is going to Oxford to read Chemistry. This year's crop of offers brings the total of number of Oxford and Cambridge places gained by King's to 80 in the last 9 years.

Kate Coppack achieved 4 A levels including 1A* and 2As and Lottie Frazer Cox achieved 4 A levels including 2A* and 1A. Selim Ungut also gained 4 A levels including 1A* and 2A grades.

Table of 2012 Results | Table of 2011 Results

A Level Results

GCSE Results Day

GCSE/ International GCSE Results

Pupils celebrated another set of excellent results with 8 pupils gaining 10 A* grades: Jessica Guest, Peter Boothroyd, Hayley Milner, Tommy Metcalf, Tom Jameson, Jack Jameson Henry Makings and Cameron Winter.

A further 7 pupils achieved 9A* and 1A: Eleanor Barnard, Elisabeth Cousins, Guy Dunbavand, Jack Peake, Isabel Reid, Henry Thompson and Ananth Ranjit (9A* and 2As).

55% of pupils gained 8, 9 or 10 A*/A grades. King's girls performed extremely well with 44% of grades at A* and 76% A*/A. King's results included IGCSE in Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Music, French, Spanish and German. From September 2013 English Literature and English Language will move from an GCSE syllabus to an IGCSE qualification.

The government announced in February 2013 that they are going to add a new measure of  GCSE success which will  a new eight-subject measure of GCSEs, including English and maths, three subjects out of sciences, languages, history and geography and three other subjects, such as art, music or RE. This will in effect be a wider version of the current English Baccalaureate measure, which some have criticised as being too narrow, although that measure will remain. If this new measure had been introduced this year King’s result would be: 97.1%.

Table of 2012 Results | Table of 2011 Results

GCSE/iGCSE Results

The Government's School Performance Tables 2012

The government league tables are released in January every year. The purpose is to be able to compare schools' performances. However, as with all league tables, it is important to understand what is and what is not included in the table.

In both tables – A level and GCSE, King's results do not always reflect the true success of our pupils and we would urge parents to compare our raw results on the tables on this website to get a real view of King's performance. As an independent school, King's welcomes the freedom to choose the best curriculum for our talented pupils and this does not always fit the government's view of a successful school!

Government GCSE league tables for 2012

University destinations

We also measure the success of The King's School by looking at where our pupils go on to study for university. Almost all of them go forward to higher education, some after a gap year. We use "The Times Top University" tables for comparisons, although there are a myriad of other tables. The Times looks at: results, facilities, research funding and other measures.

Percentage of King's pupils to The Times Top University Destinations

Notes:

Oxbridge is Oxford and Cambridge

Russell Group Universities are 20 of the top "Red Brick" Universities who are recognised for gaining high levels of inward research money.

The Times Top Universities for 2012

University offers per pupil

King's pupils apply for the UK's top universities and most competitive courses including a high number to medicine, dentistry and veterinary courses. They are valued by the universities for their independent thinking, confidence, academic rigour and well rounded personalities. Every year our Sixth Formers receive many offers:

 UK SchoolsKing's in 2012
University Offers 3.4 (Independent schools) 4
Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Offers 23% 87%
Oxbridge offers 5 applicants for every place 4 in 2012, 12 in 2011 80 offers in the last 9 years

A level results in 2012

SubjectEntryA*ABC% A-E
Art 10 3 1 4 1 100.0
Biology 29 5 12 7 3 100.0
Business Studies 8 2 2 3   100.0
Chemistry 40 5 17 12 2 97.5
Computing 1   1     100.0
Class Civ 6 1   2 3 100.0
Design Tech 5 1   2 1 100.0
Economics 30 8 13 5 3 100.0
English Lang 15 3 6 4 2 100.0
English Lit 15 3 8 3 1 100.0
French 8   3 4 1 100.0
Geography 19 3 7 6 1 100.0
German 2     1 1 100.0
Govt & Pol 9 4 2 3   100.0
History 20 2 13 3 2 100.0
History of Art 3 1     1 100.0
Latin 2     1 1 100.0
Maths 50 9 29 9 2 100.0
Further Maths 8 4 2 1 1 100.0
Music 4 1 2 1   100.0
Music Tech 2     1   100.0
Philosophy 11 2 6 3   100.0
PE 4   4 0   100.0
Physics 38 13 12 6 4 100.0
Religious Studies 8   3 2 3 100.0
Spanish 7 1 3 3   100.0


Totals in %
% A* 20.1
% A* - A 61.3
% A* - B 85.6
% A* - C 94.9
% A* - E 99.7

A level results in 2011

SubjectEntryA*ABC% A-E
Art 3 1 1 1   100
Biology 33 8 10 11 2 100
Business Studies 10   3 6 1 100
Chemistry 48 15 18 7 5 100
Classical Civilisation 2   1   1 100
Computing 3 1 1 1   100
Design Technology 5 2   2 1 100
Economics 22 7 8 6 1 100
English Language 6 1 3 2   100
English Literature 11 3 4 3 1 100
French 10 1 6 2 1 100
Further Mathematics 14 7 7     100
Geography 17 1 8 5 2 100
German 2 1       100
Government & Politics 5 3 2     100
History 10 3 7     100
History of Art 1   1     100
Latin 4   3 1   100
Mathematics 47 22 16 7 1 100
Music 5 1 1 1 2 100
Philosophy 16 1 6 5 2 100
Physical Education 4   1 1 1 100
Physics 37 14 12 4 4 100
Religious Studies 2   2     100
Spanish 8 2 4 2   100
Turkish 1   1     100


Totals in %
A* 28.8
A* - A 67.5
A* - B 88
A* - C 95.7
A* - E 100

GCSE results in 2012

SubjectEntryA*ABC% A-E
Art 21 8 6 6 1 100
Biology 104 48 29 24 3 100
Business Studies & Economics 57 14 15 20 7 100
Chemistry 103 50 32 16 4 100
Classical Civilisation 13 2 4 7   100
Design Technology 21 5 6 7 2 100
English Language 104 33 35 30 6 100
English Literature 104 17 46 37 4 100
French 33 14 9 5 5 100
Geography 56 13 16 18 6 100
German 22 5 8 5 3 100
History 43 21 12 9 1 100
IT 8 1 3 4   100
Latin 16 6 3 3 2 93.75
Mathematics 104 48 32 22 2 100
Music 10 6 1 3   100
Physical Education 14 10 1 3   100
Physics 104 47 26 26 4 100
Religious Studies 47 15 26 5 1 100
Spanish 47 10 12 13 10 100


Totals in %
A* 35.6
A* - A 67.5
A* - B 93.9
A* - C 98.9
A* - E 99.9

GCSE results in 2011

SubjectEntryA*ABC% A-E
Art 36 9 15 12   100
Biology 116 47 46 19 4 100
Business Studies & Economics 50 16 19 11 3 100
Chemistry 116 60 36 17 2 100
Classical Civilisation 17 1 8 5 3 100
Design Technology 18 7 6 3 2 100
English Language 117 44 56 16 1 100
English Literature 117 30 54 32 1 100
iGCSE French 52 29 12 7 3 100
Geography 48 14 22 10 2 100
iGCSE German 17 5 3 7 2 100
History 53 19 20 9 3 100
IT 10 1 4 3 2 100
Latin 13.5 4.5 5 4   100
Mathematics 56 8 28 13 6 100
iGCSE Maths 61 52 9     100
Music 22 17 4 1   100
Physical Education 13 1 9 3   100
Physics 116 46 47 17 6 100
Religious Studies 58 13 34 10 1 100
Science 2       2 100
iGCSE Spanish 49 17 13 10 6 100


Totals in %
A* 38.1
A* - A 76.7
A* - B 95
A* - C 99.2
A* - E 100

Government GCSE league tables for 2012

Percentage of pupils with 5 A*- C GCSEs including Maths and English

Percentage of Pupils with the English Baccalaureate ( Maths, English, History or Geog, a science and a foreign language)

The King's School results for 2012 show 100% of pupils obtaining 5 GCSEs including Maths and English.

The King's School English Baccalaureate score is 72%. To be eligible for the English Baccalaureate a pupil needs to have studied: Maths, English, Geography or History, a science and a language. All King's pupils in 2012 studied IGCSE Maths, 2 English, 3 sciences, at least I IGCSE foreign language. However, we give pupils the option to choose their other subjects and not all choose either History or Geography, therefore only 76% of King's pupils were eligible for this. All the GSCE and IGCSE options at King's are equally academically rigorous subjects.

Government A level performance tables 2011

King's score for 2012 is shown as 939.2. The most useful statistic is UCAS points per entry rather than per candidate. UCAS points are irrelevant for pupils getting places at the top universities: they simply want top A level grades. There is no point in certificating (or 'cashing in') AS levels other than to score UCAS points which less selective universities use for admissions, or which might compensate for poor A level performance. Our candidates very rarely need this compensation! Likewise, most King's pupils concentrate on the 3 good A levels which are needed for university entrance and do not always take four. A fourth low-scoring A level, even though useless for university entrance, will be counted in this table.

The Times Top Universities for 2012 were:

PositionUniversityPositionUniversity
1 Oxford 11 York
2 Cambridge 12 Bath
3 LSE 13 Bristol
4 Imperial 14 Sussex
5 UCL 15 Edinburgh
6 St Andrew's 16 Nottingham
6 Durham 17 Leicester
8 Warwick 18 Sheffield
9 Lancaster 19 Southampton
10 Exeter 20 Loughborough

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