Teachers and senior leaders will be looking at ways to improve on this year’s GCSE results after some scores were “a little bit patchy,” an education boss has said.<\/p>\n
A total of 624 students opened their results on Thursday, with those in Guernsey and Alderney achieving a 71.2% pass rate for grades 4 and above.<\/p>\n
Deputy Paul Montague said this year’s maths grades, however, were “disappointing” noting teachers and senior leaders will “look at those results really carefully”.<\/p>\n
He said there was “some good progress and some other areas where we want to see a real improvement” but stressed it “always takes time to process these results and there’s so much context”.<\/p>\n
Speaking to BBC Radio Guernsey, the president of the committee for education, sport & culture said: “We’ve got some warning signs, one or two of the initial numbers that have come out are a little bit disappointing, a little bit patchy.”<\/p>\n
He added: “There’s some really good results coming from different areas so a little bit disappointed in some ways but as with all these things it takes a while to process.”<\/p>\n
Montague said a breakdown of school specific results would be released in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n
His team will then work out how best to support individual schools while looking “at where departments and subject areas have done really well across the secondary school partnership”.<\/p>\n
He added: “Maths is particularly tricky. It’s very much a confidence game and it’s not something that you can turn around really quickly in a young person’s life because it’s so foundational – the building blocks have to be there.<\/p>\n
“I think that’s some of the questions we’re going to be asking of that set of results which dipped this year.”<\/p>\n
In 2025, 72% of all Guernsey’s GCSE and equivalent results were graded 4 and above.<\/p>\n
While this year’s average dipped slightly (71.2%) the figures remained higher than grades across England, Wales and Northern Ireland this year marked at 4\/C and above (67.3%).<\/p>\n
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