Congratulations to our pupils and staff on an outstanding set of A-level results — an exceptional vintage, placing this year’s performance among the very best in the School’s history and demonstrating the sustained, exceptionally high standards achieved by our pupils. This year’s headline figures are:
44% of all grades at A*/A
78% at A*-B
95% at A*-C
37 pupils – 19% of the cohort – achieving A*/A/A or more
48 pupils — 25% of the cohort — achieving three or more A grades
With university destinations still being confirmed, 72% of pupils have already secured their higher-education offers, with the vast majority progressing to highly competitive Russell Group universities. Others have won places at leading overseas universities, art colleges and conservatoires, or secured prestigious degree apprenticeships. These exceptional outcomes reflect not only the academic ambition, talent and hard work of our pupils, but also the extraordinary commitment and expertise of their teachers and the support of families throughout their time at the School. Our leavers now cross the threshold into the next stage of their education and lives equipped to thrive. They should take enormous pride in what they have achieved. We congratulate them all.
Congratulations to all our pupils and staff on another impressive set of GCSE results.
Results 2026 in Numbers
6.0 – the average GCSE point score across the cohort
58% – of all grades awarded were at Grades 6–9
77% – of all grades awarded were at Grades 5–9
90% – of all grades awarded were at Grades 4–9
Exceptional Individual Achievement
22% – of the cohort achieved five or more Grades 8–9
10% – of the cohort achieved eight or more Grades 8–9
6 pupils – achieved seven or more Grade 9s
11 Grade 9s – achieved by one pupil in an exceptional individual performance
These results represent a strong collective achievement and reflect the hard work, commitment and ambition of pupils and staff alike.
But examination results tell only part of the story. Whatever your individual results, and whatever your next destination, congratulations on reaching this important milestone.
We wish you every success with the next stage of your educational journey, whether you are continuing with us into the Sixth Form or moving on to pursue new opportunities elsewhere.
You can stride forward with confidence and courage, knowing that:
Once an Oratorian, always an Oratorian.
Respice finem.
When the Oratorian Saint John Henry Newman sent priests from his Congregation to open an Oratory in London, they began their mission by opening schools where poor, immigrant Catholic children could get a rudimentary education. The London Oratory School owes its origins to that early initiative. After more than 150 years...
Together with parents, our task is to help form, develop and polish the three attributes of human character that makes us wise, and admirable in the eyes of others and most important, in the eyes of Almighty God: The Intellectual, the Moral and the Spiritual….
Our curriculum is rooted in the unifying task of forming Oratorians through the course of all the three stages of our school: In the Junior House, in the Senior School and in the Sixth Form.
We see the identification, pursuit and celebration of what are called the ‘Cardinal’ Virtues of Prudence, Justice, Temperance and Fortitude as a central part of what we strive to offer so as to harness Saint John Henry’s educational vision and make it our own.
