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GCSE Results
The College takes great pride in recruiting only the very best teachers and consistently achieves the best A-level and GCSE results of any co-educational school in the country.
This year, our Year 11 pupils celebrated record GCSE results, achieving over 1,400 Grade 9s – more than ever before in the College’s history. Grade 9 was the most common grade awarded, accounting for an exceptional 63% of all results. An impressive 66 pupils achieved at least nine Grade 9s, including 50 who secured 10, 11 or 12. Remarkably, one pupil achieved 13 Grade 9s, while another secured an extraordinary 14.
The breadth of pupils’ academic interests was equally impressive, with boys and girls taking GCSEs in 11 different languages. Brighton College pupils also received four awards for achieving the highest marks in the country, including in English Literature. There was particular success in Maths and Science, where 94% of grades were awarded at 9–8.
We are enormously proud of our pupils and all the hard work that went into these exceptional results.
Our outstanding results put us in the top 1% of schools in the UK.
This year, 98% of grades were A*–B, with a huge majority of all grades at either A* or A. Our pupils achieved an extraordinary 380 A*s, shared equally between girls and boys. More than two-thirds of these were awarded in STEM subjects, reflecting the remarkable strength of our pupils across science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Across a stellar year group, individual performances were equally impressive, with 68 pupils achieving three or more A*s, 28 securing four or more, and seven achieving five A*s. Mathematics was a particular strength, with an exceptional 132 A*s awarded in Mathematics and Further Mathematics.
Pupils are now preparing to take up places at many of the world’s leading universities, including Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial College London, Harvard, Stanford and Yale. We are immensely proud of everything they have achieved and look forward to seeing where their talents, curiosity and ambition take them next.
Brighton College supports every pupil to reach the university of their choice. We have dedicated applications experts in all subject areas, led by our two Directors of Global Futures, and including a Head of Medical Applications and a Head of Engineering Applications.
Around one third of our applicants are offered places at Oxford or Cambridge every year, with over 650 offers received annually from Russell Group universities. Whilst Oxford is the top destination for Sixth Formers, the school are delighted that pupils are winning places at almost every one of the global top 30 universities, including Stanford, Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth and Princeton. In addition, many pupils head off to do medical courses.
2012-2026
While Oxbridge remains the top destination overall for our Sixth Formers, we are delighted that our pupils are winning places at almost every one of the global Top 30 universities*. Explore their destinations below:
*Global top 30 universities according to the QS World University Rankings 2027 and Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2026
University of Oxford
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harvard University
Stanford University
University of Cambridge
Princeton University
Imperial College London
University of California, Berkeley
Yale University
The University of Chicago
University of Pennsylvania
Columbia University in the City of New York
Johns Hopkins University
University College London
Duke University
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Carnegie Mellon University
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Toronto
University of Washington
The University of Edinburgh
The University of Melbourne
The University of Sydney
The University of Hong Kong
McGill University
Results News
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