How does Bearwood College do in the League Tables (including the FT Oxbridge-oriented league tables)?
The College’s true performance is frequently and substantially misrepresented in the DfES and newspaper league tables for various reasons: • our exam entry cohort is too small to feature in many tables • we allow flexibility over the age of individual pupils; the results of a candidate who is slightly young or slightly old relative to the National Curriculum age definitions are discounted negatively against the College’s performance • some of our subjects (eg Photography GCSE and A Level) are ignored in some league tables • no league table accurately reflects the strong individual ‘value addition’ that Bearwood achieves; even value-added league tables are distorted by item 2 above • unlike some independent schools, we do not oblige candidates once entered to withdraw from examinations on the basis of academic performance
