There was plenty to celebrate at St George’s College today as our Upper Sixth students returned to campus to receive their A Level results and mark the occasion together at our traditional sparkling brunch.

Grade	% of Grades
A*	23%
A*-A	54%
A*-B	82%
A*-C	94%
Pass rate	100%

Value Added	Score
3 Year Average	Top 1% of schools nationally

The Class of 2026 achieved an outstanding set of results, with 23% of all grades awarded at A*, 54% at A*–A, 82% at A*–B, 94% at A*–C and a 100% pass rate.

The College is also celebrating another year of exceptionally strong Value Added performance, with its three-year average placing St George’s in the top 1% of schools nationally.

Most importantly for our leavers and their next steps, 95% of students have secured their university of choice.

But Results Day at St George’s is about much more than statistics. Today was also an opportunity to celebrate the determination, ambition and contribution of a year group who have given so much to College life – and to discover where their next steps will take them.

Three Georgians are heading to Oxbridge this autumn: Saskia Cake will study Engineering and George Balmer Land Economy at Cambridge, while Charlotte Jory will study Modern Foreign Languages at Oxford.

There was further cause for celebration for our future doctors, with Amy van Rensburg and Freddie Rees securing places to study Medicine at UCL, and Aditi Deshpande at Kent & Medway Medical School. We were also delighted to hear that 2025 leaver Arthur Walmsley has secured a place to study Medicine at Newcastle.

Elsewhere, Mel Semiv is heading to Bath to study Economics, Freddie Elliott to Edinburgh for History and Politics, Eve Sugrue to Edinburgh for Spanish and Politics, and talented musician Fraser Crowson will pursue his passion for Music at Royal Holloway.

Together, their choices reflect the extraordinary breadth of interests across the Class of 2026. Business Management, Engineering, Politics and International Relations and Economics are among this year’s most popular courses, alongside subjects as varied as Drama, Japanese, Motorsport Technology, Optometry and Pharmacology.

Their destinations are equally varied. Bath is currently the most popular destination for St George’s leavers, followed by Durham, Manchester and Exeter, with Loughborough, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Nottingham, Warwick and Leeds also welcoming Georgians this autumn.

Headmistress Mrs Rachel Owens said:

“I am incredibly proud of the Class of 2026. To achieve such excellent raw results, alongside such consistently high Value Added, means that everyone – staff and students – demonstrated the very best version of themselves to the examiners. I am so privileged to witness these outcomes on my final A Level Results Day as Headmistress.”

Academic Deputy and Headmaster Elect Mr Henry Warner added:

“I couldn’t think of a better way to show how St George’s seeks to find a ‘perfectly balanced’ approach to all that we do than with this year’s results. Another excellent ALPS score for our Value Added demonstrates that we consistently seek to get the best academically out of every student, regardless of their GCSE profile, while another great set of raw results – with more than half of all grades awarded at A* or A – confirms that our students also know how to reach for excellence.

“Three years ago, St George’s rolled out 1:1 iPads to our students and staff. I’m incredibly proud of our teachers and students for the way they have embraced this new technology whilst maintaining the academic rigour required for examinations that remain predominantly handwritten. This is our first cohort to have been taught their entire A Level course with the new iPads, and they have done brilliantly.”

Head of Sixth Form Mr Jon Carr said:

“What is particularly pleasing this year is the breadth of destinations and courses our students are pursuing. From Engineering and Medicine to Music, Japanese and Motorsport Technology, as well as highly competitive degree apprenticeships, these choices reflect their individual talents and ambitions. We’re incredibly proud of everything this cohort has achieved and excited to see them take these next steps.”

As glasses were raised and croissants shared at the traditional Upper Sixth sparkling brunch, there was a great deal of excitement about what comes next – alongside plenty of memories, photographs and celebrations of everything the Class of 2026 has achieved.

Congratulations to every member of the Class of 2026. We cannot wait to see where your next chapter takes you.