Academic Performance and Scholarships

Common Entrance Results

Common Entrance exams are taken at the end of Year 8. They cover a broad range of subjects and stretch children far beyond what would normally be expected for Year 8 children in many subjects. Some pupils’ assessments are assessed by Senior Schools, which have the freedom to adapt the mark-scheme, making standardisation and comparisons inexact. Many academically selective Senior Schools require a score of 55% or even 60% to achieve a ‘C’ grade, with an ‘A’ often representing a very good standard indeed.

Our Year 8 pupils who sat their Common Entrance exams in the Summer Term 2024 performed very well. 97% of all grades were A* to C grades. An impressive 51% of the overall grades were graded as either A* or A. These results were the strongest set of results for our Year 8 cohorts since 2019, with the average grade sitting above a B grade.

Scholarships and Awards

We congratulate the pupils who were awarded the following Scholarships in 2024 as follows:

 

Norwich School	5 Academic Scholarships
	2 Music Scholarships
	4 Sports Scholarships
	5 Headmaster’s Awards
Framlingham College	2 Sports Scholarships
Gresham’s School	4 Headmaster’s Awards
	2 Sports Scholarship
	3 Talented Athlete Development Programmes
	1 Music Scholarship
Langley School	1 Sports Scholarship
	1 Language Scholarship
	1 Art Scholarship
Norwich High School	3 Academic Scholarships
	2 Sports Scholarships
	1 Music Scholarship
	1 Drama Scholarship
Culford	1 Drama Scholarship