More than 140 schools are now below the government’s GCSE floor target because of the impact that grade boundary changes in English have had on their results. It comes as Wales this week ordered a regrade of thousands of WJEC English GCSE papers.
One school describes to SecEd this week the shock of seeing its results plummet from a predicted 58 per cent A* to C including English and maths to 37 per cent – three points below the current floor target of 40 per cent.
In a special report for SecEd, the headteacher of Hanham High School, Peggy Farrington, describes her sense of “sheer panic” when she saw her school’s results this year.
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