20/08/2026
SCHS announce another outstanding set of GCSE results
Streatham & Clapham High School is delighted to announce another outstanding set of GCSE results, with almost half of all grades awarded at 9–8 and nearly a quarter of the year group achieving an average of grade 8 or above. Following last year’s record-breaking cohort, this is one of the school’s strongest sets of GCSE results on record, with only 2025 and 2019 exceeding this year’s average outcome (excluding the Covid years).
Strong performance across the curriculum
Almost one in five grades across the year group was a grade 9, and 70% were at 9–7. Performance was strong across the curriculum, and outstanding in several of the school’s largest subjects. History was exceptional, with 45% of all grades awarded at grade 9 and 88% at 9–7. The sciences were a clear strength, with 95% of grades at 9–7 in Chemistry, 93% in Biology and 84% in Physics. In Biology, 42% of all grades were awarded at grade 9 and 81% at 9–8. In Maths, the largest subject in the year group, 71% of grades were at 9–7, and in Art 82%.
Language learning was similarly impressive. In Chinese, 84% of grades were at 9–8 and every entry was graded 9–7, while French recorded 86% at 9–7 and Latin 75% at 9–8. There were also strong results in Geography, with 76% at 9–7, in Physical Education with 79%, and in Religious Studies with 69%.
Progress that goes beyond the headline grades
Head, Ms Cathy Ellott, says:
“It was so special today to share the girls’ delight and surprise at all that they have achieved, and to share this with their proud parents too.
Our vision is to encourage every girl to believe that she can outperform her expectations, and this year group has done exactly that. I am so impressed that almost a quarter of our girls averaged grade 8 or above, but what means most to me is how far each girl has travelled from her own starting point, with the amazing support of their teachers and our culture of ‘stretch not strain’. I am determined that every girl should feel known and valued as an individual so that she learns without limits and achieves ambitiously. I am so excited to welcome so many of these amazing young women into our Sixth Form in September.”
We are enormously proud of the girls’ dedication, resilience and ambition. These results, following on from this summer’s strongest A Level performance in nine years, demonstrate the school’s growing academic strength and the difference that a community which knows every girl as an individual can make.
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