Norfolk is celebrating another week ofpositive exam results with today’s GCSEs suggesting gains on last year’s results of more than two percentage points.
Of the 8,300 students who sat their GCSEs in Norfolk this summer, early results suggest that 54.8% of students achieved the gold standard of five A* to C grades, including English and maths – a provisional improvement of 2.1 percentage points on last year.
Today’s achievement follows on from record provisional A Level results last week and a significant two-year improvement in the proportion of schools in Norfolk judged to be good or outstanding by Ofsted. Twenty-two thousand more students now attend good or outstanding schools, compared with 2013.
Caroline Williams CEO Norfolk Chamber “We congratulate all our young people who have received their results today, those staying in full time education and those entering the world of work with training. Norfolk can provide enormous opportunities to our young people and they are the workforce of the future who will help us, over the coming years, drive the economy forward”
James Joyce, Chairman of the Children’s Services Committee at Norfolk County Council, said: “I would again like to congratulate the county’s teenagers and their teachers today, for the significant work that has gone into achieving these results.
“Brian Conway, Chair of Norfolk Secondary Education Leaders (NSEL), said: “On behalf of NSEL I would like to congratulate the young people and schools across Norfolk for their hard work and successes in these GCSE examinations. “The improvement of more than two percentage points achieving the gold standard is testament to collective hard work and the drive across Norfolk to improve outcomes”.
