In a year like none other thanks to Covid-19, we are delighted to announce another year of stunning GCSE results for our Year 11 students, equalling or surpassing previous outstanding years. 

Half of all results are at Grade 7 (A) or better, and 19% of grades at Grade 9 (reserved for the top 3% of students nationally) and 33% of results were at Graded 8 or 9 (or the equivalent the old A*). Seven students scored at least 9 Grade 9s, of whom four scored 10.  A third of students achieved at least 8 GCSEs at Grade 7 (A) or better.

Over 25% of grades in Jewish Education, Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Media, French were at Grade 9 – and the figure was 88% in Additional Maths.   Our ‘value-added’ score, measuring progress during students’ time at JCoSS, is by some distance our strongest ever.  The percentage of results at Grade 5 and above (a ‘strong pass’) has increased to 83.7%, 94.6% of results were at Grades 9-4 (the equivalent of an A*-C on the old system).

It is interesting that the list of top achievers above is more balanced than usual between boys and girls.  Among many outstanding individual performances – including in some cases GCSEs taken in previous years are those of:

Hannah Smith                    9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9

Joel Klein                             9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 A*

Harry Leibling-Blitz           9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9

Adam Tyler                          9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9

Dinah Lewis                        9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9

Eitan Richards                    9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9

Emma Segal                        9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9

Jessica Jacobs                      9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 8 8

Ava Tish                                9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 8 8

Nathan Hekster                   9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 8

Miri Nogradi                        9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 8

These grades reflect teacher predictions generated by a rigorous professional process that reflected all that teachers knew of each student’s work, progress and potential.  A tiny minority were moderated upwards by moderation, in line with other schools.

Headteacher Patrick Moriarty commented: ‘We rejoice at the excellent results that our students have achieved – both in raw outcomes and in meeting and exceeding personal goals.  They have faced huge uncertainty and difficulty since schools closed in March, and especially during the past week’s confusion over the awarding of results.  We are glad that their hard work and resilience, married to that of their teachers, has been properly recognised. 

As a school we have advocated strongly for the use of teacher grades, based as they were on a rigorous, professional and painstaking process.  We are pleased that the change of policy came in time to reward these students with clarity and greater fairness.  I am exceptionally proud of them all, and of my colleagues who have risen to the challenges of recent months so magnificently.’