📢 #ResultsDay2025 for Level 3 qualifications (A Level and equivalent) is here!. Students receiving their results today have endured significant disruption to their education since Year 8. Here’s our analysis of what we know about the results so far ⤵️🧵.

💬 “Pupils receiving their results today should be proud of their achievements, especially considering the disrupted start to their secondary education due to the pandemic school closures.”. Read our full take on the data ⤵️.

GENDER 📊. Gaps between genders have narrowed, but girls continue to outperform boys. 19.4% of male and 24.5% of female pupils achieved top grades of 7/A or above. The gap of 5.1 pp is slightly lower than 2024 (5.7pp) while the gap in passing grades at 4 and above decreased.

In 2019, the gap between the region with the highest proportion of top grades and the lowest proportion was 9.3pp (London versus North East). That gap has now increased to 10.6pp, with London still leading as the best performing region.

REGIONAL GAPS 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿. Unlike at A Levels, regional gaps are largely unchanged since last year, including the performance of the region with the highest proportion of top grades (London) and the lowest (North East). However, gaps since 2019 have widened significantly.

SCHOOL TYPE 🏫. The gap between private and state comprehensive school pupils getting the top grades has narrowed slightly from 29pp in 2024 to 28.4pp this year. This is similar to the gap in 2019. Grammar schools remain far ahead on attainment.

GRADES 🇬🇧. Results in the UK overall this year are similar to 2024. 21.9% achieved grades at 7/A or above, compared to 21.8% in 2024. Passes at 4/C and above were 67.4%, a slight decrease from 67.6% last year.

Today is #GCSEResultsDay!. Here’s what we know about the results as of yet ⤵️ 🧵.

📣 Earlier this month saw our annual careers panel and networking event take place, supported by our partners at @GoldmanSachs, who kindly hosted over 50 students in their offices. A big thank you to @GoldmanSachs for hosting - we can't wait to see where the students go next 👏

A large proportion of our MPs went to a narrow set of elite universities 🎓 . We found that 20% attended Oxford and Cambridge, compared to just 1% of the UK population. 55% of MPs went to Russell Group universities, versus 19% of the population.

🚨 Bring back maintenance grants 🚨. England is the only country in the UK to not provide maintenance grants to lower income students 💰. Since they were abolished, poorer students have been leaving university with more debt than their wealthier peers.

🚨 Wide regional gaps in top grades at A Level 🚨. In 2024, the gap between the region with the highest proportion of top grades and the lowest was 8.8pp (London vs East Midlands). That gap has now grown to 9.2pp (London vs North East) #ResultsDay2025.

💬 "We need to bring class into the conversation. If we don’t, DEI initiatives in the UK risk going the same way as their US counterparts.". More on why class must be included in conversations about diversity 👇 .

Every student receiving their results today should be proud of their hard work and efforts 👏 . Read our full analysis of the data ⬇️.

SELECTIVE UNIVERSITIES 🎓 . Acceptance rates at higher tariff universities have gone down, from 31.3% last year to 30.9% this year.

UNI ENTRY RATES 🏫 . 255,130 18-year-olds from the UK have been accepted into university this year so far. This is up from 243,650 in 2024 (+4.7%).

UNDER-REPRESENTED AREAS (IMD) 📊. The gap in entry rate between the most and least deprived areas remains wide. It rose slightly to 22.5% this year, compared to 22.3% in 2024 and 20.7% pre-pandemic in 2019.

SCHOOL TYPE 🏫. Independent schools still have the highest proportion of top grades, and the proportion of grammars with A*/A is up 2.7pp. However, the gap in top grades between comprehensive schools and private schools shrank slightly from 27.1pp in 2024 to 25.8pp in 2025.

GRADES 📖 . Overall, top grades (A*/A) have reached a record high outside of COVID years, with 28.3% of students being awarded a top grade. This is higher than pre-pandemic levels in 2019 (25.5%) and up from 27.8% in 2024.

GEOGRAPHY 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿. The gap between the region with the highest proportion of top grades (London) and the lowest (North East) has increased to 9.2 percentage points in 2025, from 8.8pp in 2024. London and the South East still lead on top grades.