2023 GCSE Results - Overview

GCSE Results Day 2023 at Culcheth High School has been a great day celebrating individual success, collective success and the end of a five-year journey for our Year 11 students – Class of 2023. Congratulations to you all on making it to the end of your time at Culcheth High School! 

GCSE exams in 2023 were intended to be more like the examinations of 2019 following the COVID disruption, centre assessed grades of 2020 and 2021 and the ‘advanced information’ format of GCSEs in 2022. Given this, it was clear that the Year 11 of 2023 were still very nervous leading into the exam period. This morning’s GCSE results for Culcheth High School is a testament to the hard work, determination and resilience of the students who have risen to the challenge, ably supported by the brilliant Culcheth High School staff.

It has been a vibrant and exciting morning at Culcheth High School as students, parents and staff celebrate some excellent GCSE results, this year.

On behalf of the staff and governors of Culcheth High School, I would like to congratulate our Year 11 students on their excellent GCSE exam results.  There have also been some fantastic individual performances, which reflect the hard work of the students in their GCSE studies. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the students for their efforts and wish them all the very best in their next steps.

70% of students achieved a ‘Basics Standard Pass’, which is Grade 4 and above, in GCSE English and Mathematics. 48% of students achieved a ‘Basics Strong Pass’, which is Grade 5 and above, in GCSE English and Mathematics.

We are delighted with and very proud of our students’ achievements, and I would like to thank all the staff for their dedication and hard work which have supported this level of achievement through the GCSE courses.

Finally, a big thank you to all the parents and guardians who have supported the students and school to help our young people achieve this level of success in their GCSE examinations.

As students receive their GCSE results this week, we know that there will be many questions from students and parents and that there are many conflicting news reports and articles about what the 2023 GCSE results look like in comparison to last year’s ‘advanced information’ GCSE format and the last set of ‘normal’ GCSE examinations in 2019. We have always known that this year was going to be a challenging year and that the government’s intention was to return to the GCSE pass levels of 2019. We will have to see how this is reflected, subject by subject, in the next few weeks.

It does not mean that marking was harsher nor more lenient– the marking was done by exam boards in the usual way. Instead, it means that when setting the grade boundaries, exam boards may have made adaptations to bring grades closer to historical 2019 levels.

This is also unaffected by any of Culcheth High School’s historical data, including what our students achieved in the last three years. Marking and grading are done at a national level, with all students across the country being treated the same way.

Culcheth High School’s 2023 GCSE Results aren’t just down to the examinations sat in the summer term but are a result of five years of dedication, enthusiasm and hard work on behalf of everyone in our school community. Students have achieved what they fully deserve and it fills us with pride that they leave Culcheth High School to start their next chapter in their journey.

All students leave us after contributing so much to our school community, showing us that they can be the best that they can be and upholding our school values of respect, honesty and excellence. We wish every single student from Culcheth High School’s Class of 2023, all the very best for the future. Good Luck! #WeAreCHS

Individual Student Performances

We would especially like to congratulate a number of our students for their individual academic success and some outstanding personal progress. These include Kira Bartha, Trick Bentham, Freya Brogan, Emma Burnham, Grace Campbell, Cameron Clucas, William Cooper, Lucy Guinan, Isaac Hilton, Ansel Horton, Oliver Horton, Ruby Hughes, Evie Maloney, Thomas Patten, Alexander Percival, Daniel Smith, Emma Wills, Sarah Wills and Heidi Wyke.

Mr C P Hunt

Headteacher