About these tables

General

These tables provide information to young people and their parents about the achievements of the 16-18 year old students at the secondary schools and Further Education sector colleges in their area.

All schools with sixth forms and Further Education sector colleges with results in England are included. Schools and colleges appear in alphabetical order, LEA by LEA. Special schools that have chosen to be included and sixth form centres or consortia are also listed.

Choosing a school or college

The information reported provides only part of the picture of the work done in schools and colleges. For example, colleges often provide for a wider range of student needs, offering other work-related qualifications and include adults as well as 16-18 year olds among their students. You can find out more information about what is on offer in your local area from school prospectuses, from the information that colleges publish locally about their work or from inspection reports. The Careers Service can also be a source of information for young people considering their post-16 options. For further details of where to find more information about choosing courses and on the difference between types of qualifications, please refer to the More Information section.

How the tables were compiled

The GCE A level and AS examination, Advanced GNVQ and International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma results came from the awarding bodies concerned and were checked by schools and colleges. Results in other specified vocational qualifications were provided by the schools and colleges themselves.

The examination and vocational qualification results in the tables were checked and provided by schools and colleges in early October. Some reviews requested of awarding bodies by schools and colleges of grades awarded to students were not completed in time to affect the information included in these tables. It is, therefore, possible that, for some schools and colleges, the information published would have been different had the results of any of the reviews been available earlier. If you have an interest in a particular school or college's results, you should check with the school or college.

If a school or college did not confirm that it had checked its examination results and/or background information, the initials 'E' or 'B' (or both) appear after its age range.

Qualifying for Success Reforms

A number of schools and colleges have been involved in piloting new qualifications - the Advanced Subsidiary (AS) and the six unit single award Advanced GNVQ - as part of Qualifying for Success reforms. Results in these qualifications have not been included in these tables but the way in which all results will be reported in the tables in future will be fully reviewed in the light of new reforms and in time for next year's publication.