GCSE students at Hartismere School and Harleston Sancroft Academy delighted with 'impressive' results

Students performed better than some had predicted upon collecting their GCSE results yesterday.

Just over three-of GCSE grades for 16-year-olds in across the country were at grade 4 or above, up from 69 per cent in 2019, when formal exams last took place, and down from 79.1 per cent in 2021, in line with the policy intent set out last year.

It was the first time since the pandemic that students had sat summer GCSE examinations, and many experts had predicted that two years of disrupted schooling would result in lower grades.

Hartismere School, in Eye, reported an “impressive set of results”.

Headteacher Geoff Luxton said: “These results are a testimony to the hard work of all our staff, governors and students and to the support given to them by their families.”

Rob Connelly, executive headteacher of Harleston Sancroft Academy, paid tribute to the teachers and students following a turbulent two years.

He said: “As a school community, we are immensely proud of what our students have achieved in the first set of external exams since 2019.

“As a group, they’ve demonstrated great resilience, perseverance and maturity throughout an incredibly turbulent time.

“I would like to thank our fantastic teachers, support staff, students, parents and carers for all that they have done to support this very special community.

“I am extremely confident that they are very well equipped for whatever lies ahead of them.”