Thank you Sam!

Thank you Emma!!

Will miss you John!

Thank you Jon!!

Incredibly grateful to all my colleagues at Tes for being so lovely to work with and to everyone in the sector who has chatted with me over the past couple of years - please stay in touch!

Worth bearing in mind this cohort were in year 6 when the pandemic hit and their transition to secondary was impacted - congrats again to everyone who got their results today and to all the teachers too!

One we can particularly see this in is languages here

And if we look on a subject by subject basis, we also see a fairly steady picture, though with the notable exceptions of English language and maths many subjects saw small upticks in performance www.tes.com/magazine/new...

The gap between state and private schools has remained relatively similar to last year

The gender gap also reached its narrowest point this century, though changes are small and girls remain ahead

- Girls saw a small drop in their proportion of grade 4s and above, while boys remained steady
- Boys saw a slight increase in top grades, while girls saw a tiny fall

In other news, there was a slight narrowing of the regional divide this year

Regardless of the stability in age groups @pepediiasio.bsky.social said today the low rates for getting a grade 4 among those resitting shows the policy is "utterly demoralising", and urged the curriculum review to consider this

And the graph here shows the trend for all entries in maths

➗For those aged 17+, pass rate fell slightly to 17.1% from 17.4%
➗For 16y/os, it barely changed - from 72% last year to 71.9%