Senior Department
St Catherine’s Senior School educates approximately 290 girls from Years 7-13, ages 11-18.
GCSE results - 2012
36 girls in Year 11 sat the 2012 GCSE exams. Of these, 5 achieved 11 subjects and 24 achieved 10, therefore 81% of them obtained 10 or more GCSEs with grades A* - C
6 girls achieved 10A*/A grades
100% of pupils achieved 5 or more subjects at A* - C
46% of results were A*/A
80% of results were A* - B
Every girl achieved A* - C in Maths, English, Science.
32 girls studied modern foreign languages and all achieved A* - C in at least one language.
How much value added has the school contributed to our girls’ results?
Overall St Catherine’s value added score was 1.44 grades above what our girls had been predicted by our benchmarking system, the University of Durham’s MiDYIS process that is widely used by UK independent schools. This means that a girl predicted a mid-B is likely to get an A* at St Catherine’s. Our value added score is considerably above the independent sector average of 1 grade and we believe that this is because of our strong school ethos and small class sizes, averaging eighteen in the Senior School.
