Cheney School - GCSE results 2025

Once again, we are delighted with the results from our lovely Year 11 students, with some very pleasing rewards for a lot of hard work. This year, almost 30% of our grades were 7 or higher, and almost a fifth were grade 8 or 9. It’s not all about the grades; the most important thing is that our students have a good destination to go to, and these results allow that. We are as pleased with some of our children who arrived not speaking a word of English a year ago, and who have left us with an English as a Foreign Language qualification, as with our students who got straight Grade 9s. 

This is the cohort at Cheney, who were most affected by Covid; they missed the end of Year 6 and the transition to secondary school, and started their Cheney life in bubbles, before being locked down again. ‘Normal’ secondary school only really started for them when they got to Year 8. Almost all our students rose above these challenges, and the strangeness of that period is now a memory, but there were a number (higher in this cohort at Cheney than in any other year group) who struggled to settle and to get into routine. That is why these results are so special for us, and mean more to us as a school than normal. 

Some statistics

• 3 students (Emma, Siri and Cas) got grade 9 in all of their exams. 

• A further 6 students got nothing below a grade 8.

• 18% of all grades were 8 or 9.

• 29.3% of all grades were 7 or above (last year it was 21.7% nationally).

• 62% of students scored 4 or above in both English and Maths.