As an alternative school, our results are very difficult to compare to others. Students join us both to add UK exams on to what they do in their mainstream schools, or as full-time students for whom mainstream schooling is no longer the right fit. We are also non-selective, so we are just as likely to have academically weaker students as academically stronger ones.

Part-time students tend to be taking IGCSE and tend to be doing so because they are confident of scoring a good grade. That is why our pass rate is skewed higher than a typical UK school.

Full-time students tend to cover a wider range — those who are either academically strong and find the mainstream age-cohort format or other organisational ideas too restrictive, or who have been let down by the system in some way and who need to get results and move to the next step of their lives, whatever that may be.

The main purpose of us publishing this results table is simply to indicate that students successfully use ITS for their UK exams regardless of their approach to education or the way the system measures them. It should also be noted that we can give Centre-Assessed Grades when exams are cancelled, and our students have been much less disrupted by COVID than others.

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