Achievements

How Non-Selectivity Affects Rankings and Achievements: Buckswood School as an Example

Buckswood School maintains strong academic outcomes despite its non-selective admissions. The boarding school offers four distinct programs—GCSE, A-level, IB, and Foundation—alongside numerous supplementary courses. This breadth, combined with personalized attention and extensive extracurricular opportunities, helps students achieve a 100% university acceptance rate at top British institutions.

Rankings and Achievements: Buckswood School in GCSE

Buckswood School doesn’t appear in standard GCSE rankings because it uses the internationally recognized IGCSE curriculum for Year 5 instead, which universities consider equivalent.

The school’s most impressive achievement here is a 100% pass rate across 19 subjects. In IGCSE Maths, 71% of students scored grade 5 or higher, while 73% reached this threshold in English—both figures exceeding regional and national averages and improving year on year. Meanwhile, 93% achieved grade 4 or above in English, with similar rates of 84% in mathematics, 82% in sciences, and 77% in history. Over a third of students earned grades 7 or higher, with top performers achieving 998A*A and 88777.

Rankings and Achievements: Buckswood School in A-Level

A-level represents one of Buckswood School’s strongest areas. Despite the reformed, more rigorous examination system, 45% of all grades fall within the top A*-A band, while 73% of students achieve A*-B results.

Outstanding performance appears consistently across computing, art, English, accounting, Spanish, economics, history, and sciences. One student earned straight A* grades across all three exams, while several others achieved A*AA and AAA combinations.

Rankings and Achievements: Buckswood School in IB

Buckswood School ranks 9th among all UK schools offering the International Baccalaureate, according to British IB league tables.

Having delivered the program for over six years, the school maintains a 99% graduation rate. Students average 33 points—a strong result for admission to prestigious British universities that significantly exceeds both national and worldwide averages.

Rankings and Achievements: Buckswood School in University Preparation

Through comprehensive preparation within core programs and through additional courses and academic events, Buckswood School achieves 100% university placement for its graduates across British institutions.

Recent graduates have progressed to UCL, Birmingham, Glasgow, Durham, York, Lancaster, Loughborough, Manchester, Sussex, Surrey, Exeter, Royal Holloway, Sheffield, and others.