GCSE students suffered a record fall in results today as exam marking returned for the first time since 2019, with 26.3 per cent achieving a grade 7/A or above. But pupils in London outperformed all other regions of England by a significant margin, with 32.6 per cent of all exams achieving that result, and the capital is pulling further ahead.
This is not only a credit to London students and teachers, but to the city’s education system as a whole. Two decades ago, we had some of the worst-performing schools in the country. But thanks in large part to the London Challenge, a school improvement programme launched in 2003 that focused on sharing good practice, London now has many of the best. Yet that is under threat.
