Outstanding GCSE success for Hymers College students

ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL YEAR: Students at Hymers College picking up their GCSE results

By Rick Lyon, Co-Editor

Hymers College is today celebrating another set of outstanding GCSE results.

Year 11 students at the independent Hull school have made exceptionally strong progress and excelled in all subject areas.

The school said that, through hard work and determination, as well as the supportive ethos that is the hallmark of Hymers, students, their parents and teachers are delighted to see how this year’s cohort has risen to the challenge to reach and, in many cases, exceed their potential.

The average GCSE grade for all students in all subjects at Hymers this year is 7 (the old A grade equivalent), with particularly strong results in Maths, Sciences, History and Languages (French / Spanish / Latin).

Other highlights include:

●      One in ten of all students achieved all grades 9 or 8

●      One in six of all students were awarded grades 9 or 8 in at least eight subjects.

The majority of the class of 2026 are now looking forward to staying on at Hymers’ sixth form to study A-Levels and / or BTEC Sport.

Headmaster Justin Stanley, said: “Many congratulations to all the GCSE students collecting their results today. It has been a great pleasure to share your journey with you over the last five years, and to watch you develop both as students in the classroom and as young people more generally.

“Your teachers have enjoyed working with you to help you fulfil your potential and the progress that you have made, as individuals and as a year group, is especially pleasing.

“Outside the classroom you have contributed with skill, passion and commitment to so many areas of school life such as sport, music and drama, and we cannot wait to welcome you back to Hymers for your A-Levels and BTECs.

“With the firm foundations you have laid, we have no doubt that you will flourish in the sixth form at Hymers, serving as brilliant leaders of the school community and superb role models for the younger pupils.

“I am sure that, like me, you would want to thank both your teachers and your parents for the wonderful support that they have given you throughout the GCSE courses.

“We are all very proud of you. Very well done!”

The excellent GCSE results come one week after Hymers celebrated record-breaking A-Levels, with more top grades achieved than ever before.

Almost a third of all A-Level grades awarded were A*s – the highest proportion in Hymers’ history and an increase of nine percentage points on last year.

More than half of all grades were A* or A, while 77 per cent were A*-B or equivalent, and 92 per cent were A*-C or equivalent, underlining another year of outstanding academic achievement for the school.