According to Government leagues tables, published earlier this year, OLA was the joint 4th best performing school for adding value at A-level out of 84 schools and colleges in Oxfordshire in 2019. This puts us in the top 5% of schools in England. We rate well above most of our major competitors, as the graph below shows:
Our score is 0.42, placing us in the ‘Well Above Average’ category, the highest a school can achieve. These figures explain how much progress students who studied A-levels made between the end of Key Stage 4 (GCSE) and the end of their A-level studies, compared to similar students across England.
The scores are calculated by comparing the A-level results of students at each school with the A-level results of students in schools and colleges across England who started with similar results at the end of the previous Key Stage 3 – Key Stage 4.
By this measure, OLA’s 2019 A-level cohort made much greater academic progress between their GCSEs and A-levels than those in other schools. This builds on the ‘Value Added’ many of them had already achieved at GCSE, where their performance exceeded baseline expectations.
In summer 2020, our students once again excelled themselves, scoring some of the best results in the school’s history. Our Value Added scores were even higher than in 2019, showing once again that OLA’s small class sizes, innovative and fun approach to learning and nurturing ethos bring out the very best in our students.