Exams and Performance
We are very proud of all of our students for their hard work and dedication throughout their time at Sheldon School and Sheldon Sixth Form.
Our students perform very well academically as well as contribute to school life through their participation in clubs, sports and performing arts programmes. We look forward to seeing where our students will go in their future and we are confident that with a strong foundation built at Sheldon, they will achieve wonderful things. Thank you to all the staff, parents and members of the Sheldon community that helped support our students through their exams.
Department for Education Performance Measures
Note from the Department of Education: Given the uneven impact of the pandemic on school and college performance data, you should not make direct comparisons between the performance data for one school or college and another, or to data from previous years.
School and college performance data for the 2022/2023 academic year should be used with caution. In 2022/23, qualifications returned to pre-pandemic standards. Performance measures that are based on qualification results will reflect this, and cannot be directly compared to measures from 2021/2022.
There are ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, which affected individual schools, colleges and pupils differently.
KS4 Results (end of Secondary School)
KS4 Performance Statistics
2025 |
2024 |
2023 |
2022 |
|
Grade 5 or above in English & maths GCSE |
42.2% | 46.9% | 42% | 51% |
Progress 8 Score |
* | -0.1 | -0.26 | -0.17 |
Attainment 8 Score |
45.2% | 45.7 | 44.8 | 50.1 |
Entering English Baccalaureate (Ebacc) |
25.4% | 27.6% | 28% | 24% |
EBacc Average Point Score |
3.88 | 3.95 | 3.85 | 4.29 |
Percentage of pupils staying in education or going into employment after KS4 |
93% | 95% | 96% | 95% |
*The DfE is not able to calculate Progress 8 scores for academic years 2024/25 and 2025/26 because there is no KS2 assessment data available to calculate the baseline for Progress 8 for these years due to Covid-19 disruption.
Key Stage 5 (16-18)
2025 |
2024 |
2023 |
|
Progress |
-0.06 | * | * |
Attainment |
* | * | |
Retention |
92.30% | * | * |
Average Result |
C+ | C+ | C+ |
Points |
32.73 | 33.65 | 31.9 |
* We cannot publish value added measures for the 2022 to 2023 academic year or the English and maths progress measures for the 2022 to 2023 or 2023 to 2024 academic years, as the Secretary of State did not publishing these.
Student Destinations
157 students (or 85%) that left Sheldon Sixth Form in 2023 and either stayed in education or went into employment from October to March the following year, or stayed in an apprenticeship for at least 6 months. This data was published in October 2025.
2023 |
2022 |
|
Staying in Education |
44% | 53% |
Starting Apprenticeships |
6% | 6% |
Entering Employment |
35% | 27% |
Not in education or employment for two terms after study |
8% | 8% |
Unknown |
7% | 6% |
Destination Breakdown
2022 |
2021 |
|
Higher Apprenticeships |
4% | 2% |
Degrees |
68% | 78% |
Degrees at Top Third Higher Education Institutions |
24% | 24% |
Other Study at Level 4 or 5 |
1% | 2% |
University Destinations
Many of our students will continue their education journey by studying at:
• University of Oxford
• University of Warwick
• Imperial College London
• University of Reading
• Cardiff University
• University of Bath
• Bath Spa University
• University of Exeter
• University of Manchester
• Loughborough University