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The Good Schools Guide 2010
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Exams analysis PDF files for individual schoolsHow well do children like yours do at the schools you are considering? The Good Schools Guide's detailed, in-depth exam analysis PDFs don't just show the number of passes, or how well boys do compared to girls, but how well children of different abilities do - including the very brightest, the least able and those with special needs - and lay bare the school's performance in individual subjects. School exam results have been dissected for most English schools at:
To provide a quick indication of a school's performance, we have developed a series of indicators: For instance:
This particular chart shows the average value added for children with special educational needs at King's School, Winchester. All indicators follow a similar pattern:
To show how schools perform in individual subjects, we have developed a series of charts to lay bare individual subject performance. This typical example is for an independent school in the home counties (pink for girls and blue for boys):
Bars which rise above the line at 50 indicate subjects that are, in our estimation, well taught. The school seems to focus on the softer subjects and to do well at them. Results in the sciences and languages are less comforting.
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