Woodbridge A level results 2026: 42% A*-A, 100% pass

Woodbridge School says this year’s A levels are its best ever, with 42 per cent of grades at A*-A, 77 per cent at A*-B, 92 per cent at A*-C and a 100 per cent pass rate. Two of its students scored full marks nationally, one in Art and one in Photography. (Woodbridge School, A Level Results 2026, 13 August 2026)

Shona Norman, Head of School, said the results were “a tremendous achievement for our students and a fitting reward for the dedication, perseverance and ambition they have shown throughout their time in the Sixth Form”. Karl Hayward-Bradley, Deputy Head Academic, said students were heading to courses including History, Medicine, Mathematics, Cognitive Science, Egyptology and Fashion.

At Thomas Mills High School in Framlingham, 74 per cent of grades were A*-C and 50 per cent were A*-B. Three quarters of the year group secured a higher education place, across at least 33 universities in England, Scotland and Wales, including Oxford and Cambridge. (Thomas Mills High School, press release, 13 August 2026)

Philip Hurst, headteacher at Thomas Mills, said Year 12 numbers rose significantly last year with several students joining from other local schools, and that staffing had been increased “to maintain our broad offer of 28 subjects post-16”. Andy Cann, Head of Sixth Form, said students had “maintained their strong tradition of achieving well at Advanced Level”.

Farlingaye High School, the largest school in Woodbridge, has not published its 2026 results. Its website still lists exam results pages for 2023, 2024 and 2025 only, and its most recent news items date from the end of the summer term. (Farlingaye High School)

How the local figures compare

Ofqual published the national picture at 9.30am on results day. Across England, 28.3 per cent of A level results were at grade A or above and 78.1 per cent at C or above, both fractionally up on 2025. In the East of England the figures were 27.9 per cent and 77.9 per cent. (Ofqual, Qualification results in England: summer 2026, table 8)

The fairer comparison is by centre type, because school type drives most of the difference. Independent and private schools averaged 48.6 per cent at A and above and 89.4 per cent at C and above. Academies, which is what Thomas Mills is, averaged 23.5 per cent and 75.8 per cent. All state-funded centres together averaged 25.4 per cent and 76.8 per cent. Grammar schools, of which there are none here, averaged 43.4 per cent and 88.4 per cent. (Ofqual, table 9)

Set against that, Woodbridge School’s 92 per cent at C and above is a little above the independent sector average, while its 42 per cent at A and above is below it. Thomas Mills’ 74 per cent at C and above sits just under the academy average of 75.8 per cent.

One caveat worth knowing before you compare anything

Ofqual’s tables count A levels only. Schools very often publish an A*-C or A*-E figure that folds in vocational and technical qualifications, and they rarely say which they have done. Neither Woodbridge School nor Thomas Mills states whether equivalents are included in the percentages above, so treat the comparison as a guide rather than a league table.

The A*-B figures both schools quote have no national equivalent at all. Ofqual does not publish a B-and-above line, so a school’s A*-B can only sensibly be compared with its own previous years. That is why Woodbridge School describes 77 per cent at A*-B as its own best ever performance rather than measuring it against anything else.

What it means for you

If a grade looks wrong. The deadline for the priority review of marking is Thursday 20 August. It covers AS, A level and level 3 vocational qualifications only, exists so university applicants can be sorted before term, and awarding bodies aim to complete it within 15 calendar days. The standard review of marking and the clerical re-check both close on 24 September, with turnarounds of 20 and 10 calendar days. (JCQ, post-results services, summer 2026)

Two things families regularly get wrong. The request goes through the school’s exams officer, not direct to the board, and it needs the student’s written consent. And there is no grade protection: a review can move a mark down as well as up, and the lower grade stands.

GCSE results land next Thursday, 20 August. At Farlingaye High School results can be collected between 9am and 11am. Students who cannot attend had to leave a stamped addressed envelope with the exams office before the end of term, or send someone with a signed letter of authorisation and proof of identity. (Farlingaye High School, exam results day)

If the grades were not what was needed. The National Careers Service runs a free exam results helpline on 0800 100 900, staffed by qualified advisers who can talk through resits, apprenticeships and other routes. (National Careers Service)

For the wider picture on what school leavers are walking into locally, East Suffolk’s claimant count fell for a third month in June, to 2.8 per cent of working-age residents against 3.9 per cent nationally.