Exam Results 2025

2025 A Level results lead to Oxbridge and Russell Group offers

The John Roan School 2025 A Level results saw a significant improvements on all key headline measures, with half of all A Level entries achieving A*-B grades.

Destinations for our Sixth Form include the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford respectively plus a host of Russsell Group and top universities.

Overall, these results reflect an increase on all key measures for The John Roan School since 2024 and a 100% pass rate. Most notably, the A* to B rate improved significantly by eight percentage points – unlocking opportunities for top higher education destinations.

This trend was matched by achievements in vocational equivalent courses, with almost 100% pass rate in all BTEC subjects, 83% D*-D in Diploma Health and Social Care and over a quarter of all BTEC entries achieved at least Distinction.

Among The John Roan School’s successful Year 13 group are:

Alicia, who is now headed to the University of Cambridge to read Geography after achieving an A* in Geography and As in Maths and History;
Tom, who achieved four A*s in Maths, Further Maths, Physics and Chemistry and will be taking up a place at Warwick to read Mathematics;
Jian, who has secured a place at UCL to study Mathematics, having achieved A*s in Maths and Further Maths and As in Physics and Chemistry;
Aaron, who achieved an A* in Maths, an A in Further Maths and a B in Physics and has secured a place at study a degree apprenticeship in Civil Engineering;
Rex, who achieved A*s in Maths and Politics and an A in History and is excited to take up a place at the University of Oxford to study Japanese;
Reem, who achieved an A* in Biology, A in Chemistry and Distinction* in BTEC Health and Social Care and is looking forward to beginning studies in Diagnositic Radiography at the University of Leeds;
Lois, who will be heading to Bristol to study Psychology after achieving an A* in Psychology and As in Maths and Biology;
Tetiana, who will now go on to study Psychology at Warwick after achieving an A* in Biology and As in Maths and Psychology;
Ellen, who achieved an A* in Art and As in History and Geography and will be taking up a place to study Art History and Fine Art at Leeds University;
Jonas, who achieved As in Maths and Physics and a B in Chemistry, thus securing a place at Warwick to study Mechanical Engineering;
Nada, who achieved As in Maths, Biology and Chemistry and will be taking up a place at Imperial College London to study Biochemistry;

GCSE Results 2025

59% of students achieved a grade 4 or above in both English and maths while 39% achieved at least a grade 5 in the two subjects.

This represented a strong improvement on both measures for the school since 2024. Some of our top performing studentsa include:

Raiya, who achieved ten grade 9s;
Ivan, who achieved nine grade 9s and two grade 8s;
Isaac, who achieved seven grade 9s and two grade 8s;
Jude, who achieved seven grade 9s and three grade 8s.

Key information for 2024 and 2025 exam results

	2023 - 2024	2024 - 2025
Progress 8 score	-0.29	n/a
Attainment 8 score	41.6	44.4
% pupils who were entered for the English Baccalaureate (EBacc)	53.1%	54.6%
EBacc average points score (APS)	3.96	4.15 (+ 18% vs LY)
% of students achieving grade 5 or above in GCSE English and GCSE maths	34%	39%
KS5 average grade	C	C+
KS5 average points	31.58	31.58
Y11 into Y12 retention		74/180 (41%)
Y13 Destinations (RST)		89% to university; 11% to apprenticeships/ GAP year