Academic Outcomes
Our Mission - ‘Education is Success’ - is realised as students fulfil their potential and progress to their preferred destination.
Year 13 students typically achieve very well and have a choice of university offers with students progressing to elite universities and courses. In 2024 and 2025, the pass rate for the prestigious International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme surpassed the national and global average.
Year 11 attainment and progress has led to growing numbers progressing to International Baccalaureate programmes in our Sixth Form or to competitive courses at other providers. An above average proportion (70% in 2025, compared to ~65% nationally) of students achieve standard passes in Maths and English, allowing them to progress to Level 3 courses.
Sixth Form International Baccalaureate Programmes
In 2025, destinations for Year 13 students included Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial and UCL amongst other Russell Group universities. Students have achieved places on highly competitive apprenticeships, such as BNP Paribas (2024) and CBRE UK (2025) and internationally, they have progressed to the Universities of California and Colorado in the past few years.
Year 13 Progression |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
2025 |
|
Oxbridge |
1% |
3% |
5% |
1% |
3% |
1% |
6% |
|
Russell Group |
41% |
41% |
47% |
26% |
33% |
42% | 45% |
|
Other university |
54% |
49% |
40% |
56% |
53% |
44% | 40% |
|
Apprenticeship |
1% |
0% |
2% |
3% |
3% |
3% | 1% |
|
Employment |
1% |
2% |
2% |
0% |
1% |
0% | 1% |
|
Gap year |
2% |
5% |
4% |
14% |
8% |
11% | 8% |
The average score for students in the Diploma Programme has been well above the world average for some years and in 2024 and 2025 it surpassed the average in the UK, where the vast majority of students attend fee-paying schools. In 2025:
- 13% of IBDP grades were at 7 (equivalent to A* at A Level).
- 93% of IBDP grades were at 4+ (equivalent to a C).
Completion rates and progress on our vocational IB Career-related programme are also well above national and local comparisons. In 2023 attainment was in the top 1% nationally. In 2025:
- The average grade at WA was a Distinction (above the borough average of Merit, and the national average grade of Merit+).
Year 13 IB and BTEC Outcomes |
2019 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
2025 |
|
Diploma Programme pass rate: |
95% | 97% | 88% | 98% | 96% |
|
Average points for students passing the IB Diploma out of 45 (global average): |
32 (30) |
36 (32) |
35 (30) |
33 | 33 |
|
Highest diploma points awarded to a candidate: |
42 |
42 |
45 |
44 | 44 |
|
Average grade for students passing the IB Diploma (out of 7): |
5.11 |
5.28 |
5.54 |
5.25 | 5.28 |
|
IB Career-related Programme pass rate: |
91% | 92% | 91% | 73% | 92% |
|
Average grade for students passing the IBCP: |
4.32 |
4.5 |
4.22 |
4.08 | 4.30 |
|
BTEC Average Grade |
DDD |
D*DD |
D*DD |
DDD | DDD |
Student retention
For the cohort who completed their Sixth Form studies in 2024:
- The school retained 93.50% of IBDP students (national average 92.20%)
- The school retained 100% of IBCP students (national average: 85.30%)
Further information on Westminster Academy's key stage 5 performance across Department for Education performance measures is available here.
Year 11 Outcomes
Provisional outcomes data for 2025 can be found in the table below. In 2023, outcomes at Key Stage 4 broadly returned to levels seen in 2019, following years where assessment and grading was affected by the pandemic. Given the uneven impact on school and college performance data, the Government has advised that direct comparisons should not be made between the performance data for one school or college and another, or to data from previous years.
Year 11 Attainment |
2019 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
2025 (p) |
2025 national average |
|
Progress 8 |
+0.36 |
+0.44 |
+0.35 |
-0.06 |
n/a |
n/a |
|
Attainment 8 |
51.8 |
55.4 |
51.9 |
47.9 | 48.3 | 45.9 |
|
5+ in English and Maths |
55% |
65% |
56% |
51.5% | 48.4% | 45.2% |
|
4+ in English and Maths |
71% |
78% |
72% |
67% | 70% | 64.5% |
|
Students entered for EBacc |
63% |
92% |
96% |
94% | 89.4% | 40.5% |
|
EBacc average point score |
4.79 | 5.31 | 4.96 | 4.65 | 4.63 | 4.08 |
| Staying in education or going into employment after key stage 4 | * | 91% | 90% | * | * | 91% (2023) |
* - Unavailable
P - Provisional
Further information on Westminster Academy's key stage 4 performance across Department for Education performance measures is available here.
The Department for Education 'compare school and college performance service' can be found here.