Following our record-breaking A-level achievements last week, pupils at Brighton College are once again celebrating — this time with the school’s best-ever GCSE results.
An astonishing 98% of all grades were at 9–7 (A*–A), including 62% at grade 9, and 89% at Grade 8–9 (A*). In total, pupils secured 1,300 grade 9s, with 59 pupils achieving a clean sweep of 9 or more grade 9s.
"The results are cause for great celebration for the pupils and their families, and I am delighted that our girls and boys have both achieved a phenomenal 98% at grades 9-7. They are, however, really only the outcome or end point of a wonderful journey of learning, intellectual enquiry and academic engagement.
We took as our inspiration just over a year ago a quotation attributed to Antoine de Saint Exupéry: ‘If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood, but teach them rather to yearn for the vast and endless sea.’ Through lessons, academic societies, our masterclass series and critical thinking courses, the pupils are developing, with us as teachers, a love of learning that we hope will stay with them throughout their lives.”
Steve Marshall-Taylor
Head Master