Examination Results
Ewell Castle School 2024 A-level and BTEC Results
Ewell Castle School proudly congratulates all of our students on achieving excellent A-level and BTEC examination results this year. These wonderful achievements reflect the determination and dedication of our students, who embody the School’s commitment to inspiring both academic excellence and character development, supported by our passionate and dedicated community of ambitious families and accomplished staff.
· This year, 28% of all A-level grades were A*-A, with 56% A*-B, 85% A*-C and a 100% pass rate.
· BTEC results were 100% Distinction or Distinction Star, all of which means that students achieved an average of 115 UCAS points each.
As we celebrate these impressive accomplishments, Ewell Castle School remains committed to providing an environment where every student can thrive, develop their unique talents, and prepare for a bright future.
Harrison McLean is our overall top performing A-level student this year, achieving A*A*A*B, and he will be reading Computer Science at Oriel College, University of Oxford.
We would also like to share the following admirable and noteworthy results:
· Ben Crockford (A*A*A) will be reading Chemistry at the University of Bristol
· Alexander Markou (A*A*A) will be reading Politics and International Relations at the University of Exeter
· Zachary Fox (A*A*AB) will be reading Mathematics and Physics at the University of Warwick
· Callum Danks (A*A*B) will be reading History and Ancient History at the University of Exeter
· Oliver Folloy-Marsh, Tommy Forbes, Raihan Jiwa and James Ralph all achieved a grade profile of AAA.
In Russian, 100% of students achieved an A* grade; in Drama, Further Mathematics and Spanish, 100% of students attained grades A*-A; in Design & Technology, Music and Religious Studies, 100% of students attained grades A*-B.
Mr Silas Edmonds (Principal) reflected ‘I am delighted that our Class of 2024 has once again set a standard of excellence in realising their academic potential at A-level and BTEC. Our students are an inspiration to everyone at The Castle for what can be achieved when our young people are engage harmoniously with our motivational and inspiring staff, with the indispensable support of their families. I warmly congratulate them all and I look forward to hearing numerous success stories as they embark on their next chapter at top university and Degree Apprenticeship courses.’
Ewell Castle School 2024 GCSE Results
RECORD-BREAKING RESULTS
Ewell Castle School is proud to announce this year’s record-breaking GCSE results, which reflect the School’s dedication to academic high performance, personal excellence and the pursuit of a rounded and grounded education. Our pupils’ achievements reflect not only their academic prowess, but also their growth as confident, resilient individuals, prepared to thrive in an ever-evolving world.
We extend our heartfelt congratulations to all of our Year 11 pupils for their remarkable GCSE results and we look forward to their continued success as they advance to the next stage of their education, with the majority embarking on A-level and BTEC courses at Ewell Castle Sixth Form. We also send our thanks to our whole learning community, not least our unstintingly supportive families and our relentlessly inspiring staff.
· 86% of all GCSE grades were 9-5, with 41% of grades at 9-7.
· 87% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in English and Maths.
· 88% of pupils attained 5 or more grades 9-5, with an impressive 31% of pupils achieving 5 or more grade 9-7s. 28% of pupils achieved at least 1 grade 9.
· 96% of pupils gained 5 or above grades 9-4, including maths and English.
Michael Salman is our overall top performing GCSE pupil this year, achieving 8 Grade 9s, 1 Grade 8 and 1 Grade 7.
We would also like to share the following outstanding individual results:
· Cameron McLean attained 6 Grade 9s and 4 Grade 8s
· Iris De Monchy attained 6 Grade 9s, 2 Grade 8s and 1 Grade 7
· Henry Craig attained 6 Grade 9s, 2 Grade 8s and 3 Grade 7s
· Julian Tank attained 5 Grade 9s, 2 Grade 8s and 3 Grade 7s
· Harry Jun attained 6 Grade 9s, 1 Grade 8, 2 Grade 7s and 1 Grade 5
· Nicholas Tank attained 6 Grade 9s, 1 Grade 8, 1 Grade 7 and 2 Grade 6s
Ewell Castle School 2023 GCSE Results
Ewell Castle School – Proud of its 2023 GCSE examination results
Ewell Castle School is proud of our Year 11s examination results and congratulate the students, their families and the staff on these achievements. 78.8% of all grades were 9-5 and 35.7% of all grades were 9-7. 84.2% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and Maths GCSEs. An impressive 27.6% of students achieved 5 or more grade 9-7s and 25% of students achieved at least one grade 9.
Alisa Borisova was our top performing GCSE pupil this year, achieving 11 Grade 9s and 1 Grade 7. The following pupils also did incredibly well; George Saunders with 9 Grade 9s, 2 Grade 8s and 1 Grade 7. Niki Hartman with 8 Grade 9s, 3 Grade 8s and 1 Grade 7. Lily Bowles with 7 Grade 9s, 4 Grade 8s and 1 Grade 7. Mingyo Kim with 6 Grade 9s, 3 Grade 8s, 2 Grade 7s and an A in Additional Maths. Louis Keohane with 6 Grade 9s, 4 Grade 8s and 2 Grade 7s. We are also pleased to announce that William Sweet has been offered a professional training contract with Arsenal Football Club.
Our Head of Year 11, Ms Wilkinson said “'Alongside all staff, I am proud of the achievements of the Year 11 cohort. They have shown excellent commitment and resilience in their studies, and this has resulted in some highly commendable results. I have no doubt that each and every pupil will flourish in the future, and I wish them the very best.”
Principal Silas Edmonds commented: “These wonderful results are testament to the dedication and energy of our Y11 pupils. They have thrived throughout their time at Ewell Castle, and I am delighted that they have so many excellent opportunities ahead of them.”
Ewell Castle School 2023 A-level and BTEC Results
Another record year for A-level and BTEC examination results at Ewell Castle School
Ewell Castle is delighted to announce excellent results for our Sixth Formers, and we send our heartiest congratulations to all our students and families, as well as our wonderful staff, on these achievements.
35% of all grades were A*- A which is our highest record for A-level and BTEC public examination results. 56% of all grades were A* - B, 79% A* - C, with a 100% pass rate. BTEC results were 83% Distinction Star, all of which means that students achieved an average of 118 UCAS points each.
Notable Achievements
Nicholas Mason-Apps is our top performing A-level student this year, achieving A*A*A*A*, and will be reading Computer Science at the University of Warwick.
In addition, we are delighted to share the following exceptional results:
· Riona Syed (Head Girl) and Harry Smale both achieved A*A*A*A. Riona will be reading Economics and Management at the University of Bristol and Harry will be reading Economics with Industrial Experience at the University of Exeter.
· Alexander Cridland achieved A*A*AA and will be studying Mathematics and Physics at the University of Warwick.
· Jad Al-Shakarchy achieved A*A*A and is heading for a place at a top conservatoire to study Music.
· Alexandra McDonald (a very busy tennis scholar) achieved A*AA and will be going on to study Economics at the University of Bristol.
· Ruairi O’Rourke achieved A*AAB and will be reading Computer Science with an Industrial Year at the University of Birmingham.
We would also like to celebrate with Ben Callaghan (Head Boy) who has accepted a very prestigious Higher-Level Apprenticeship to study Engineering with British Airways and Robin McAlpine (one of our top performing tennis scholars) who has now started at Menlo College, California USA, Division 1 on a Tennis Scholarship.
Mindful that this cohort’s GCSE examinations were disrupted by COVID-19 two years ago, our Co-Heads of Sixth Form, Mr Getty and Mrs McManus are delighted: “the students and staff are thrilled with these excellent results, which reflect the high academic standards of the Sixth Form provision at Ewell Castle, and its culture of lifelong resilience. With careful and skilful guidance for each individual student, not a single one was placed in Clearing.”
Principal Silas Edmonds commented: “I am proud of our young people who have worked so diligently under the expert direction of our talented and dedicated staff. They fully deserve these wonderful A-level and BTEC results, the highest post-16 public examination results in the School’s history. In a year when the national trend for A-level grades has taken a downturn, Ewell Castle students have risen to the challenge and shown their quality. Our 2023 Ewellians all now go on confidently to prestigious universities, colleges, conservatoires and Higher Apprenticeships, fully prepared for whatever challenges they will face.”
2022 GCSE Results
Fantastic GCSE examination results at Ewell Castle School
Ewell Castle School pupils and their families are celebrating our first post-pandemic GCSE results with 94% of pupils achieving 5 grades or more at grades 9 – 4 and 39% of these grades being 9 - 7.
Top GCSE performers this year were:
Harrison McLean with 9 grade 9s and one Grade 7 as well as a A in Additional Maths. Last year iGCSE Maths 9, GCSE Statistics 9. Harry Cmoch with 8 grade 9s, 2 grade 8s and a grade 7. Callum Danks with 5 grade 9s, 6 grade 8s and a grade 7.
The following other pupils also did incredibly well; Oliver Folloy-Marsh with 3 grade 9s, 4 grade 8s, 3 grade 7s and 2 grade 6s. Ella-Louise Collett with 2 grade 9s, 3 grade 8s and 3 grade 7s. Joseph Keohane with 4 grade 9s, 4 grade 8s, 1 grade 7 and 3 grade 6s. Dilan Patel with 2 grade 9s, 5 grade 8s, 3 grade 7s and a grade 6. Ben Crockford with 3 grade 9s, 5 grade 8s and a grade 6. Andrea Sterritt-Hernandez with 2 grade 9s, a grade 8 and 4 7s and Lona Patel who was also one of our top-performing pupils.
We are pleased to announce that Tallulah Taylor will be studying Fashion, Textiles and Costume at Kingston College. Krystal Rose-Coleman will join The Ashcombe School and attend Dorking Wanderers Football Academy. Isabelle Palmer will be studying for a BTEC in Animal Welfare at specialist land-based Hadlow College.
Principal, Silas Edmonds, commented “Huge congratulations to our hard-working and inspiring Year 11 pupils who have weathered the Covid-19 storm throughout their GCSE courses. They deserve these excellent results and can now take full advantage of the opportunities they have for post-16 study, here at the Castle and beyond.”
Ewell Castle School 2022 A-level and BTEC Results
Best ever A-level and BTEC examination results at Ewell Castle School
Ewell Castle School students achieved excellent exam results this year with a 100% pass rate and the majority of students achieving their first-choice university.
67.4% of all grades were A*-B and 34.1% of grades were A*-A. BTEC results were 100% Distinction. Extended Project Qualifications results were 88% Grade A.
Lucy Crockford was our top performing A-level student this year, achieving A* A* A and has been offered a place at University of Exeter to study Geography.
In addition, Georgie Barker achieved A*AA and will be studying English at the University of Exeter. Alexander Blencowe achieved A*AA and will be studying dentistry at the University of Bristol.
Lily Rudd, our Head Girl, achieved A*AB and an A in her EPQ and will be going to the University of Leeds to study Geography. Samraj Mahal, our Head Boy, achieved AAB and is studying Accountancy and Business on a PWC Flying Start Programme at the University of Reading.
Patrick Hodgson and Max Dunlop both achieved four A-level grades. Patrick Hodgson achieved A*ABB and will be studying Politics at the University of Birmingham. Max Dunlop achieved A*A*AB and will be studying Maths and Statistics at the University of Warwick.
Ted Boulting Williams achieved an A* in English Literature. Edward Frost and Ashyre-Mae Harris-Manahan both got an A* in Politics. Catherine Tudor achieved an A* in Fine Art. Ethan Woolsgrove achieved ABC and will be studying a Digital Marketing Apprenticeship with Accolade Wines.
Well done, also, to our Year 12 students who took Maths A-level a year early achieved four A* grades and two A grades.
Our Head of Year 13, Mrs McManus said “I am so proud of our Sixth Formers. These excellent results reflect the hard work and high academic standard of Ewell Castle Sixth Form.”
Principal Silas Edmonds commented “I am thrilled with these extraordinary results. Our young people have shown great resilience and dedication to their studies in order to achieve excellence in the first post-pandemic examination cohort. I send my warmest congratulations to our Ewell Castle families, and I feel great pride when I reflect upon all that our students have accomplished. May I extend my gratitude to our talented teachers and educational support staff for all that they have done during this academic year.”
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Ewell Castle School 2021 GCSE Results
Ewell Castle School pupils and their families are celebrating our best ever GCSE results with 98.73% of pupils achieving grades A*-C/ 9-4 and 45.24% achieving grades A*-A/ 9-7. The number of our pupils who achieved five GCSE grades A*-C/ 9-5, including Maths and English, was 98.57%.
Top GCSE performers this year were: Nicholas Mason-Apps with 10 Grade 9s; Zachary Fox with 9 Grade 9s and 1 Grade 8; Alexander Cridland with 9 Grade 9s; Jad Al-Shakarchy with 7 Grade 9s and 3 Grade 8s; Sophia King who achieved 6 Grade 9s, 2 Grade 8s and 2 Grade 7s; Ruairi O’Rourke with 6 Grade 9s, 3 Grade 8s and 1 Grade 6 and Keval Patel with 5 Grade 9s, 4 Grade 8s and 1 Grade 7.
Principal Silas Edmonds remarked: “Our pupils should feel rightly proud of their accomplishments and compelling GCSE results. Despite the Pandemic, they have remained focused and engaged with their studies, inspired by their teachers with the diligence to ensure that their education was not disrupted. We are delighted that so many will return to take up offers of a Sixth Form place with us in September where they will continue to enjoy excellent educational curriculum provision, superb wellbeing support and a first-class co-curricular and enrichment programme, all underpinned by exceptional UCAS and careers guidance.”
2021 Ewell Castle School A-level Results
Thrilled Ewell Castle School students secure record A-level and BTEC Level 3 results
Ewell Castle Sixth Form students and their families have much to celebrate this year, in a highly competitive cohort as 15% of our students have secured places to study Medicine. 45.3% of our students achieved A*-A, the School’s best-ever A-level results. 67.3% of our students achieved A*-B, 87.3% achieved A*-C and the pass rate was 100% overall.
During an academic year adversely affected by the global pandemic, lockdowns and uncertainty, our students showed great resilience, calm and focus, rising to all the challenges thrown at them. With inspiring teachers working alongside them, they have excelled to earn results of which they can be justly proud.
Taewon Kang, Orhun Isikoglu and Theo Bromley were our top performing A-level students this year, each achieving A* A* A. Two of our Level 3 BTEC Business students achieved Distinction * and one of our Level 3 BTEC Computing students achieved a Distinction. Our students have once again secured their first-choice university which include Cardiff, Loughborough, Reading, Aston, and St George’s Medical School. Ben Dunkley achieved A*AA and will study Mathematics at King’s College London; elite sportsman Theo Bromley will study at Loughborough University having achieved A*A*A and Lauren Body takes up her place at St George’s to study Medicine, having achieved A*AA.
Well done also to Emir, James and Max in Year 12 who took A-level Mathematics a year early and all achieved A*.
Principal Silas Edmonds commented: “Our resilient students have worked diligently and endured additional uncertainty this academic year. I am delighted with these outstanding results for our A-levels and Level 3 BTECs, and I pay tribute to them and all our staff who have taught and inspired our students to excel this year.”
Ewell Castle School - 2020 GCSE Results
Ewell Castle School is delighted to announce that 97% of its pupils achieved 5 or more grade 9 – 4 GCSEs and 40.1% of all GCSEs grades were grade 9 - 7. BTEC grades were 1 Distiction*, 1 Distinction, 2 Merits and 1 Pass.
Top GCSE performers this year were SeWoong Jun with 5 Grade 9s and Alexander Blencowe with 4 Grade 9s. In addition, the following students achieved the following number of Grade 9 – 7s Alessandro Chinasamy (10), Philip Scholes (10), Emir Ahmed (9), James Clarke (9), Shiven Sharma (8), Patrick Hodgson (7), Roderic Thambithurai (7) and Lucy Crockford (6).
Principal Silas Edmonds commented “Despite the exceptional circumstances surrounding this year’s assessments, our excellent Year 11 cohort have been justly rewarded for their diligence and achievements. We look forward to welcoming the majority of our young people into our academic Sixth Form to thrive in stimulating A-level and BTEC courses. They will benefit from a dynamic enrichment programme, first-class UCAS and careers support as well as a rounded and grounded approach to wellbeing and health.”
Ewell Castle School A-level Results
Ewell Castle School students achieved a 100% pass rate at A-level with the majority of its students achieving their first choice university.
70% of all A-level grades were A*-B and 40% of grades were A*-A. BTEC results were 2 Distinction*, 1 Distinction and 1 Merit.
These have been unprecedented times and the Year 13 students at Ewell Castle have shown remarkable maturity and resilience in coping with the challenges posed this year. It is therefore truly impressive that they have done so well at A-level with these well-deserved results, which are the School’s best-ever A-level and BTECs, reflecting the commitment shown throughout the Sixth Form.
Of particular note is Zakaria Dada who achieved A*A*A and will go on to read Law at UCL. Zakaria was also awarded the prestigious Jack Petchey Foundation Community Award for setting up Merton Mutual Aid during lockdown. He will be joined at UCL by Jemin Park who also achieved excellent results, achieving A*A*A, he will read Mathematics. Zachary Rapinet also did outstandingly well with A*A*A and will now go on to study Geography and Spanish at Newcastle University. We are also thrilled that Jamie Campbell achieved A* AAA and will read Physics at Southampton University.
A number of other students also achieved impressive A-level results, including Kelvin Cheung who achieved A*A*BB, Head Girl Lauren Body who achieved A*AA and Isaac Conibear who has been awarded a Scholarship at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.
Principal Silas Edmonds commented: “During what has been a time of great uncertainty and anxiety for many, I heartily congratulate our students for their dedication and fortitude. I also acknowledge the hard work and personal support that teachers and staff at the School have provided for our students, particularly during the “Lockdown” Summer Term. They have helped instil students with a sense of self-belief and confidence that has inspired many to exceed their expectations. I extend my very best wishes to all our new alumni as they commence the next phase of their studies.”
Year 13 Future Destinations
See below where our students have chosen to further their education after studying at Ewell Castle.