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Historical trend
Trend summary
67.6% of GCSE entries in England achieved grades 4–9 (a standard pass) in summer 2024, down slightly from 67.9% in 2023.
Trend
- The grade 4–9 pass rate rose sharply in 2020 and 2021 during COVID-19 teacher-assessed grading, then fell back toward the 2019 baseline in 2022–24.
- The 2024 rate of 67.6% is close to the pre-pandemic 2019 level of 67.3%, following a planned post-pandemic grade normalisation.
- The proportion achieving grade 7–9 (equivalent to A/A*) has been broadly stable at around 23% since 2022.
Context
- DfE publishes GCSE results for England annually in October; the numerical grading scale (9–1) replaced A*–G from summer 2017.
- Grade 4 is described as a "standard pass" and grade 5 as a "strong pass" in DfE guidance.
Trend summary generated by claude-sonnet-4-6 on 10 October 2024. Contains no editorial judgement — describes direction, magnitude, and official projections only.
About this indicator
- Source
- Department for Education
- Update frequency
- Annual
- Last updated
- 17 October 2024 Data may be out of date
- Licence
- OGL v3
- Rising trend is…
- Positive
Statistics
- Latest
- 69.2 %
- Period high
- 69.2
- Period low
- 67.1
- Period average
- 68.1