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<\/p>\nThousands of students across Surrey collected their GCSE grades on Thursday<\/p>\n
Ruby, Melissa, Jhulya, Ollie and Ben celebrating their results at Blenheim High School, Epsom. (Image: Blenheim High School)<\/p>\n
Epsom and Ewell was Surrey\u2019s best performing area when it came to GCSE, and among the top ten nationwide.<\/p>\n
On Thursday (August 20) thousands of teenagers across the county collected their exam results, marking the end of a five year senior school journey and a key step forward in choosing their future path.<\/p>\n
This year the proportion of exams<\/a> getting the top grades has risen for the second time in a row, and remains higher than before the Covid-19 pandemic. A total of 22.0% of grades were awarded grade 7\/A or above, up slightly from 21.9% in 2025 and higher than the 20.8% in 2019.<\/p>\n However, while 67.3% of exams were graded a 4\/C or above is down slightly from 67.4% last year.<\/p>\n GCSEs shifted from a letter to a number grading system back in 2017, starting with English and Maths. By 2020 all subjects had shifted to this system.<\/p>\n The grades are ranked from 1, the lowest, to 9, the highest. They don\u2019t directly correspond to the letter grades, but simply put a 9 is a A*, a 7 is an A and an 8 sits somewhere in the middle. A 4 can be translated as a C.<\/p>\n The best performing area of the county worked out by looking at the proportion of GCSE entries awarded 7 or above. At Epsom<\/a> and Ewell<\/a> this was 37.8% of grades. This is still quite a way off top placed Cambridge at 53.5%.<\/p>\n To put that number in perspective the average proportion of grades awarded 7 and up in the South East was 24.6%. You can take a look at how all the counties did below<\/p>\n One of the schools in Epsom that was celebrating on Thursday was Blenheim High School<\/a> which had a record breaking year. Students there achieved over 10% higher than the national pass rate with 78% of grades awarded are 9-4, 25% over 7.<\/p>\n Tony Bodell, Headteacher at Blenheim High School says \u201cThis year\u2019s GCSE results are exceptional and they stand as a powerful testament to the dedication and hard work of our students and staff.”<\/p>\n While Epsom and Ewell was the highest scoring area of Surrey, the areas surrounding Surrey did incredibly well with Richmond Upon Thames, Sutton and Kingston<\/a> upon Thames coming second, third and fourth respectively.<\/p>\n Three more Surrey boroughs appeared in the top 20. Waverley (36.6%) came in 11th, Mole Valley (36.4%) 12th and Guildford<\/a> (35.5%) just behind in 16th.<\/p>\n The rest of the Surrey areas can be found slightly down the table, with Elmbridge (31.6%) in 29th, Runnymede (28.7%) in 47th, Woking<\/a> (26.6%) in 62nd, Surrey Heath (26.0%) 68th, Spelthorne (24.5%) 85th, Reigate<\/a> and Banstead<\/a> (24.0%) 87th, and Tandridge (22.7%) in 104th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of students across Surrey collected their GCSE grades on Thursday Ruby, Melissa, Jhulya, Ollie and Ben celebrating…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[8034,81,3156,8033,3158,403],"class_list":["post-14970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kingston-upon-thames","tag-blenheim-high-school","tag-education","tag-epsom","tag-epsom-and-ewell-borough-council","tag-ewell","tag-kingston-upon-thames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/gbr\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/gbr\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/gbr\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/gbr\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/gbr\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/gbr\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/gbr\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/gbr\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/gbr\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/gbr\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}