King Edward’s School is one of the leading independent schools in the UK and pupils achieve excellent exam results each year.
An overview of our most recent results as well as downloads of the full exam results and university destinations for the last four years are available below.
International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma results 2026
Comparing our 2026 Higher Level IB results to equivalent A Level grades provides the following:
Higher Level IB grade | Equivalent A Level grade | % of grades achieved |
7 | A* | 46% |
7/6 | A*/A | 78% |
7/6/5 | A*/A/B | 94% |
Boys who sat the IB Diploma in 2026 achieved excellent results, highlights of which include:
- Average points score per pupil of 38.30 points (which is significantly higher than the global average of 30.88).
- 46% of the cohort attained scores of 40 points or above.
- One pupil attained the maximum score of 45 points and 17 pupils in total achieved 43 points or above, including 3 pupils who scored six 7s in their academic subjects.
- The average point score per subject was 6.03.
- Pupils continue to uphold the long-standing tradition of attending top UK universities like Oxford, Imperial, Durham and other Russell Group universities, with US university destinations also featuring again. Find out more about the 2025 cohort of university destination here. [Please note our 2026 universities destinations will be updated in the autumn term].
The IB Diploma results from 2026 are the final set that will be published, with KES having reintroduced A Levels in September 2025.
GCSE results 2026
The 123 boys who took their GCSEs in 2026 produced another set of outstanding results, highlights include:
| 9/8 (A*) | 9/8/7 (A*/A) | |
| 2026 | 77.17% | 90.14% |
| 2025 | 67.29% | 84.28% |
| 2024 | 68.8% | 85.6% |
| 2023 | 68.6% | 87.5% |
| 2022 | 73.5% | 89.4% |
| 2021 | 73.8% | 89.3% |
| 2020 | 71.7% | 88.7% |
| 2019 | 67.6% | 85.4% |
