GCSE results will be 'in line with expectations'

Pupils taking GCSEs this year are the first to start the secondary school system without going through 11-plus selection

Individual results for GCSEs are not expected to change after the end of the 11-plus, a Guernsey school leader has said.

Pupils taking GCSEs this year are the first to start the secondary school system without going through 11-plus selection, which was scrapped in 2019.

Liz Coffey, executive principal of the four state schools in Guernsey, said: "Results across the board shouldn't really change, but school by school, there could be some real variation."

Results from Guernsey's four secondary schools including Les Varendes, which was a grammar school until last September, were expected on 22 August.

'Landmark' results

Ms Coffey said exam results for pupils would be "broadly in line with what we would we would expect".

"It would be invidious to compare our schools results last year with this year because... there's been a redistribution of children of the higher ability ranges across our schools," she said.

Staff and teachers had a "really good understanding of their children and broadly where they're going to end up, so I don't think it's going to be a shock to them".

Nick Hynes, director of education, said the results would be a "landmark".

Comparing data between schools would be a "little bit more challenging" because of the former grammar school becoming a non-selective school, he said.