Which of the three A-level English courses Bromley's sixth forms enter, how each school's grades compare with DfE's progress scores, and what each one asks of a student.
Book a Free ConsultationBromley's providers made 405 A-level English entries in 2024/25. In Literature, two schools made 40 of the 296 entries and hold 16 of the 22 A* grades DfE itemises, yet neither school's value-added score can be told from the national average. Grades and progress scores answer different questions, and of the five subjects this site covers for Bromley, English is where they part furthest. Bromley also enters Literature at England's rate but Language at about half of it.
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Book a Free Consultation Message us on WhatsAppThe two schools are Newstead Wood School and St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School. They made 40 of the borough's 296 Literature entries, with 38 of their 40 entries at A*–B against 47.7% at the other 15 providers. Their value-added intervals both contain zero: +0.32 on 26 matched entries at Newstead Wood and +0.19 on 14 at St Olave's. That describes who enrols, not how either school teaches. Both schools' own sixth-form documents ask for GCSE grade 7 in English, so their raw grades reflect the students who arrive, and value added exists to remove that.
English Literature is where the two measures part furthest in Bromley. Of the five A-level subjects this site covers for the borough, it has the widest gap in A*–B share between those two schools and every other provider (47.3 percentage points), and the smallest share of the borough's entries sitting at those two schools (13.5%, against 45.3% in Chemistry and 38.1% in Physics).
Bromley takes English differently from England in a second way. Its students enter Literature at the England rate, 11.3% of A-level students against 11.4%, but Language at less than half, 2.4% against 4.5%, and in each of the last five years at between 41% and 58% of England's rate. Four of the 22 providers with English entries enter Language, and three enter the combined Language and Literature course.
Below: which sixth forms enter which course, how English participation compares with England's over five years, grades and progress scores side by side, what DfE hides, what each school asks at GCSE and which board it names, and what the coursework involves.
Bromley is its own local authority, DfE code 305, so the borough and DfE's sweep are the same thing; GIAS, the government's register of schools, lists every provider below as local authority Bromley (305). Of 27 Bromley establishments in DfE's 2024/25 value-added dataset, 24 have an English Literature row and 22 of those have Literature entries in DfE's exam-entry table. Baston House School, Darul Uloom London School and Kings London (closed 27 March 2026) have no Literature row; Bishop Challoner School (closed 4 July 2025) and The Tutorial Foundation have a row but appear in neither of DfE's school-level tables of entries and of A-level students.
| Provider | Literature | Language | Language and Literature | All English |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bullers Wood School | 29 | 28 | – | 57 |
| Langley Park School for Boys | 39 | 13 | – | 52 |
| Hayes School | 17 | – | 22 | 39 |
| Langley Park School for Girls | 6 | – | 20 | 26 |
| Newstead Wood School | 26 | – | – | 26 |
| Ravens Wood School | 14 | – | 9 | 23 |
| Darrick Wood School | 22 | – | – | 22 |
| The Ravensbourne School | 22 | – | – | 22 |
| Charles Darwin School | 21 | – | – | 21 |
| Harris Academy Beckenham | 21 | – | – | 21 |
| Chislehurst School for Girls | 8 | 12 | – | 20 |
| St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School | 14 | – | – | 14 |
| Bromley High School GDST† | 11 | – | – | 11 |
| Orion Coopers | 6 | 5 | – | 11 |
| Harris Girls Academy Bromley | 10 | – | – | 10 |
| Bishop Justus CofE School | 7 | – | – | 7 |
| Orion Eden Park | 6 | – | – | 6 |
| Babington House School† | 4 | – | – | 4 |
| Eltham College† | 4 | – | – | 4 |
| Farringtons School† | 4 | – | – | 4 |
| Harris Academy Orpington | 4 | – | – | 4 |
| London South East Colleges | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| All 22 providers | 296 | 58 | 51 | 405 |
Source: DfE, Schools and colleges - subject entries and grades, 2024/25 (version 1.0.1, 23 April 2026), exam entries at A level, queried through the Explore Education Statistics public API on 17 October 2026. † Independent school (GIAS type: other independent school). A dash means DfE records no entries.
Each count is one student sitting one A-level once, and taking two English courses is rare in Bromley. DfE's separate count of state-funded students shows 376 who took any English A-level in 2024/25 and 273 who took Literature, 58 Language and 52 the combined course, so only 7 sat two (1.9%; England 3.0%). Literature and Language classes are largely different students.
Two Bromley schools run their sixth form inside a federation centre. GIAS links Harris Academy Beckenham and Harris Girls Academy Bromley to Harris Federation Post 16 (URN 135416), which it places in Croydon, and each school's record links back. The centre's own Literature row is 80 matched entries. Its five members with published rows sum to 67 (Beckenham 21, Girls Bromley 10, South Norwood 12, Crystal Palace 11, Girls' Academy East Dulwich 13), which leaves 13, and four more members have suppressed rows. The centre is the sum of its members, not extra students, so this page counts the two Bromley schools' own rows and leaves the Croydon centre out.
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Book a Free Consultation Message us on WhatsAppFor Literature, yes: 11.3% of Bromley's A-level students at state-funded providers entered it in 2024/25 against 11.4% across England, and the rates have never been more than 1.4 percentage points apart in five years. For Language, no: 2.4% against 4.5%, and in every one of the five years Bromley's rate has been between 41% and 58% of England's. The combined course sits between, 2.2% against 2.5%.
| Academic year | Bromley A-level students | Bromley Literature students (share) | England Literature | Bromley Language students (share) | England Language | Bromley Language and Literature students (share) | England Language and Literature |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020/21 | 2,257 | 295 (13.1%) | 13.0% | 74 (3.3%) | 5.7% | 55 (2.4%) | 2.9% |
| 2021/22 | 2,394 | 233 (9.7%) | 11.1% | 71 (3.0%) | 5.4% | 67 (2.8%) | 2.6% |
| 2022/23 | 2,363 | 274 (11.6%) | 11.2% | 47 (2.0%) | 4.9% | 50 (2.1%) | 2.5% |
| 2023/24 | 2,449 | 276 (11.3%) | 11.9% | 47 (1.9%) | 4.7% | 43 (1.8%) | 2.6% |
| 2024/25 | 2,414 | 273 (11.3%) | 11.4% | 58 (2.4%) | 4.5% | 52 (2.2%) | 2.5% |
Source: DfE, A level and other 16 to 18 results, Student counts and Results - A level by region and subject (end of 16-18 study), version 1.0, local authority 305 and the nine regions summed for England, state-funded providers only, queried 17 October 2026. These are students, not the exam entries counted above, which also include four independent providers: the 2024/25 Literature figure here is 273 students against 296 entries, and the two are not subtracted from one another.
The Language gap is a provider gap. Four of the 22 providers enter Language: Bullers Wood School (28), Langley Park School for Boys (13), Chislehurst School for Girls (12) and Orion Coopers (5). Three enter the combined course: Hayes School (22), Langley Park School for Girls (20) and Ravens Wood School (9). Across England 904 of the 2,424 providers with any English entry (37%) enter Language and 492 (20%) the combined course; in Bromley the shares are 18% and 14%. Whether a Bromley student can take English Language depends on the school. Charles Darwin School's 2026 booklet lists Language, though DfE has no Language row for it in 2024/25.
Grades say where students finished. Value added compares that with students nationally who had the same GCSE results, so a school that recruits strong GCSE results is expected to post strong grades and is scored on whether it did better or worse than expected. The table gives DfE's grade counts for the 17 Bromley providers whose Literature grades it itemises, the same 17 that have a published Literature value-added score.
| Provider | Exam entries | A* | A | B | C | D | E | A*–B |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Langley Park School for Boys | 39 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 19 (48.7%) |
| Bullers Wood School | 29 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 16 (55.2%) |
| Newstead Wood School | 26 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 24 (92.3%) |
| Darrick Wood School | 22 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 10 (45.5%) |
| The Ravensbourne School | 22 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 3 (13.6%) |
| Charles Darwin School | 21 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 11 (52.4%) |
| Harris Academy Beckenham | 21 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 13 (61.9%) |
| Hayes School | 17 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 9 (52.9%) |
| Ravens Wood School | 14 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 (57.1%) |
| St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School | 14 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 (100.0%) |
| Bromley High School GDST† | 11 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 (72.7%) |
| Harris Girls Academy Bromley | 10 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 (90.0%) |
| Chislehurst School for Girls | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 (0.0%) |
| Bishop Justus CofE School | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 (14.3%) |
| Langley Park School for Girls | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 (50.0%) |
| Orion Coopers | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 (33.3%) |
| Orion Eden Park | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 (33.3%) |
| 17 providers | 279 | 22 | 38 | 92 | 76 | 41 | 10 | 152 (54.5%) |
Source: DfE, Schools and colleges - subject entries and grades, 2024/25 (version 1.0.1), A-level English Literature, queried 17 October 2026. Sorted by entries, never by grade. † Independent school. Seven further providers have suppressed Literature rows (see below).
For scale, across the 1,765 providers in England whose Literature grade counts DfE itemises (32,917 entries), 10.3% of entries were A* and 57.1% were A*–B; Bromley's 17 itemised providers had 7.9% and 54.5%. The split sits in two rows. Newstead Wood School made 26 entries: 11 A*, 5 A, 8 B and 2 C. St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School made 14: 5 A*, 7 A and 2 B. Together that is 16 of the 22 A* grades, 38 of the 152 A*–B grades, and 40 of the 279 entries (14.3%). The other 15 providers made 239 entries, 114 of them A*–B (47.7%) and 6 A*.
That comparison is raw: it is not adjusted for GCSE results, both schools' sixth-form documents ask for grade 7 in English, and GIAS records both as state-funded schools with a selective admissions policy. Their value-added scores are adjusted, and read +0.32 (-0.03 to 0.68) at Newstead Wood and +0.19 (-0.30 to 0.67) at St Olave's. Both intervals contain zero, so DfE's own measure cannot tell either school's English progress from the national average.
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Book a Free Consultation Message us on WhatsAppEnglish is where this is sharpest. The table runs the same comparison for the five A-level subjects this site covers for Bromley, using DfE's exam entries and grade counts for the same two schools against every other Bromley provider whose grades are itemised.
| A-level subject | Entries at the two schools | Their share of Bromley entries | A*–B at the two schools | A*–B at other providers with grades | Gap (percentage points) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Literature | 40 of 296 | 13.5% | 38 of 40 (95.0%) | 114 of 239 (47.7%) | 47.3 |
| Biology | 165 of 524 | 31.5% | 143 of 165 (86.7%) | 147 of 343 (42.9%) | 43.8 |
| Mathematics | 344 of 987 | 34.9% | 303 of 344 (88.1%) | 339 of 630 (53.8%) | 34.3 |
| Physics | 154 of 404 | 38.1% | 127 of 154 (82.5%) | 114 of 226 (50.4%) | 32.0 |
| Chemistry | 213 of 470 | 45.3% | 165 of 213 (77.5%) | 115 of 239 (48.1%) | 29.3 |
Source: DfE, Schools and colleges - subject entries and grades, 2024/25 (version 1.0.1), exam entries at A level, queried 17 October 2026; the two schools are Newstead Wood School and St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School. Exam entries, so shares differ slightly from the matched-entry counts on our Bromley Chemistry, Physics, Biology and Maths pages.
A wide gap is what two groups of students who start from very different places produce. It is not evidence that one group was taught better, or worse. What it does tell a Bromley family is where the English classes are: 13.5% of the borough's Literature entries are at those two schools, so a typical Bromley English Literature student is at one of the other providers, where about half of entries reach A*–B.
DfE publishes a 2024/25 English value-added score for 17 Bromley providers in Literature, 3 in Language and 3 in the combined course, and suppresses 7, 2 and 0. Three of the 23 published intervals lie wholly on one side of zero: Harris Girls Academy Bromley in Literature (+0.64 on 10 matched entries), Langley Park School for Girls in Language and Literature (+0.47 on 20) and Langley Park School for Boys in Language (-0.88 on 13). The other 20 contain zero, among them Charles Darwin School's Literature interval, whose lower edge is 0.00 and which we do not count as clear. If every school were exactly average, about one interval in twenty would still clear zero by chance, about one of these 23, so none of the three is a safe statement about teaching on its own. DfE's score is a progress measure for one year's entrants and is not a measure of teaching quality.
| Course | Provider | Matched entries | Value added | 95% interval | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Literature | Langley Park School for Boys | 39 | -0.17 | -0.46 to 0.13 | Contains zero |
| Literature | Bullers Wood School | 29 | 0.17 | -0.17 to 0.51 | Contains zero |
| Literature | Newstead Wood School | 26 | 0.32 | -0.03 to 0.68 | Contains zero |
| Literature | The Ravensbourne School | 22 | -0.19 | -0.58 to 0.20 | Contains zero |
| Literature | Charles Darwin School | 21 | 0.40 | 0.00 to 0.80 | Lower edge at 0.00, not counted as clear |
| Literature | Darrick Wood School | 21 | -0.08 | -0.48 to 0.32 | Contains zero |
| Literature | Harris Academy Beckenham | 21 | -0.05 | -0.45 to 0.35 | Contains zero |
| Literature | Hayes School | 16 | 0.09 | -0.37 to 0.54 | Contains zero |
| Literature | Ravens Wood School | 14 | -0.24 | -0.73 to 0.25 | Contains zero |
| Literature | St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School | 14 | 0.19 | -0.30 to 0.67 | Contains zero |
| Literature | Bromley High School GDST† | 11 | 0.39 | -0.17 to 0.94 | Contains zero |
| Literature | Harris Girls Academy Bromley | 10 | 0.64 | 0.06 to 1.22 | Entirely above zero |
| Literature | Chislehurst School for Girls | 8 | -0.34 | -0.99 to 0.30 | Contains zero |
| Literature | Bishop Justus CofE School | 7 | -0.52 | -1.21 to 0.17 | Contains zero |
| Literature | Langley Park School for Girls | 6 | -0.20 | -0.95 to 0.55 | Contains zero |
| Literature | Orion Coopers | 6 | 0.33 | -0.41 to 1.08 | Contains zero |
| Literature | Orion Eden Park | 6 | -0.42 | -1.16 to 0.33 | Contains zero |
| Language | Bullers Wood School | 28 | 0.07 | -0.24 to 0.39 | Contains zero |
| Language | Langley Park School for Boys | 13 | -0.88 | -1.35 to -0.42 | Entirely below zero |
| Language | Chislehurst School for Girls | 12 | -0.14 | -0.63 to 0.34 | Contains zero |
| Language and Literature | Hayes School | 22 | 0.33 | -0.03 to 0.69 | Contains zero |
| Language and Literature | Langley Park School for Girls | 20 | 0.47 | 0.09 to 0.85 | Entirely above zero |
| Language and Literature | Ravens Wood School | 9 | 0.19 | -0.37 to 0.76 | Contains zero |
Source: DfE, Schools and colleges - qualification and subject value added, 2024/25 (version 1.0.1, published 23 April 2026), A-level English Literature, English Language and English Language & Literature, queried 17 October 2026. Sorted by matched entries within each course, never by score. Matched entries run a little below exam entries.
Harris Girls Academy Bromley's +0.64 is on 10 entries, and the federation centre it belongs to scores +0.10 (-0.10 to 0.31) on 80, an interval that contains zero. Langley Park School for Girls shows how one department can read differently by course: +0.47 for the combined course on 20 entries, -0.20 for Literature on 6. DfE published this table twice for 2024/25, a provisional version in February 2026 and a revised one on 23 April 2026, and this page uses the revised one. Two of Bromley's 32 English rows differ; Ravens Wood School's Language and Literature row read -0.12 on 10 entries before and reads +0.19 on 9 now.
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Book a Free Consultation Message us on WhatsAppLiterature has 7 suppressed rows of 24 (29%). DfE's entry table publishes totals even where it hides grades, so it shows what they hold: Babington House School 4, Eltham College 4, Farringtons School 4, Harris Academy Orpington 4 and London South East Colleges 1, 17 entries in all, 5.7% of the borough's 296 Literature entries. Bishop Challoner School and The Tutorial Foundation appear in neither entry table. Suppression removes rows, not students: 29% of the rows are hidden but 5.7% of the entries. Eltham College's own sixth-form options booklet publishes its 2025 English results as 25% A*, 25% A*–A and 100% A*–B, which fits its four entries with one A* and three B.
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The table covers the fourteen providers whose own documents we could read for a GCSE English requirement; a school's current requirement may have changed since its document was published. Hayes School, Chislehurst School for Girls and Bromley High School GDST name a board in the documents we read, none of which gave a GCSE grade in readable text, and The Ravensbourne School's course guide could not be read, so none of the four is in the table.
| Provider | Courses entered in 2024/25 | GCSE English grade the document asks for | Board named in the document |
|---|---|---|---|
| Langley Park School for Boys | Literature, Language | Grade 5 in both English Language and English Literature | AQA (Literature B 7717; Language 7702) |
| Bullers Wood School | Literature, Language | Grade 5 in English Literature and Language | Edexcel (Literature); AQA (Language) |
| Newstead Wood School | Literature | Grade 7 in English Literature | Edexcel |
| Darrick Wood School | Literature | A minimum of a 6 and a 5 across English Language and English Literature | Edexcel |
| Charles Darwin School | Literature, Language | Grade 5 in English Language or English Literature | OCR (Literature); AQA (Language) |
| St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School | Literature | Grade 7 in English Language or English Literature | OCR |
| Ravens Wood School | Literature, Language and Literature | Grade 6 in English Language/Literature, for both | Edexcel (both) |
| Harris Girls Academy Bromley | Literature | A combination of at least grade 6 in English Language and English Literature | Not named |
| Harris Academy Beckenham | Literature | The same combination of at least grade 6, on the Harris Federation Post 16 sheet | Not named |
| Bishop Justus CofE School | Literature | Grade 6 in English Literature, or grade 5 in Literature with a grade 6 in English Language | Not named |
| Orion Coopers | Literature, Language | Grade 6 in English Literature or Language (September 2026 criteria); the 2025 course guide lists grade 6 in both | Edexcel (Literature 9ET0; Language 9EN0) |
| Langley Park School for Girls | Literature, Language and Literature | Literature: grade 6 in English Language and grade 7 in English Literature. Language and Literature: grade 6 in both | Edexcel (Literature); OCR (Language and Literature) |
| Orion Eden Park | Literature | Grade 6 in English Literature or English Language | Edexcel |
| Eltham College† | Literature | Grade 9/8/7 in both English Language and English Literature | Eduqas |
Source: Each school's own published sixth-form document, fetched 17 October 2026: Langley Park School for Boys prospectus 2026 and board list 2026-27; Bullers Wood School entry requirements September 2026 and subject sheets; Newstead Wood School A Level English Literature sheet; Darrick Wood School course document 2026; Charles Darwin School subject requirements 2026; St Olave's options booklet 2026 entry; Ravens Wood School entrance criteria 2026-27; Harris Girls Academy Bromley entry requirements 2025-26 and Harris Federation Post 16 entry requirements 2026-27; Bishop Justus course directory 2026-27; Orion Coopers entry criteria September 2026, board list and guide 2025; Langley Park School for Girls prospectus 2026; Orion Eden Park course guide 2025-26; Eltham College GCSE requirements 2027 entry and options booklet. † Independent school.
Grade 5 is the lowest bar named, at three providers, and the highest is Eltham College's 9/8/7 in both English GCSEs. Newstead Wood School and St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School ask for a 7, as does Langley Park School for Girls for its Literature course but not for its combined course. Of the 22 providers with Literature entries, 14 name a Literature board in the documents we read: Edexcel 8, AQA 2, OCR 2, Eduqas 1 and WJEC 1 (the school's own wording). Edexcel covers 126 of the 223 Literature entries at those providers, and five of its eight providers name A Streetcar Named Desire in their Literature course description: Newstead Wood School, Hayes School, Darrick Wood School, Ravens Wood School and Langley Park School for Girls. Boards differ even inside one school: Langley Park School for Girls teaches Literature on Edexcel and Language and Literature on OCR, and Bullers Wood School teaches Literature on Edexcel and Language on AQA.
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| Provider | Course | Coursework task as the school describes it |
|---|---|---|
| Langley Park School for Boys | Literature (AQA Literature B) | Two essays of 1,250-1,500 words, each on a different text and linked to a different part of the Critical Anthology |
| Darrick Wood School | Literature (Edexcel) | One essay of 2500 to 3000 words comparing two texts |
| Hayes School | Literature (Edexcel) | A comparative essay of 2500-3000 words on The Handmaid's Tale and a second text of the student's choice |
| Hayes School | Language and Literature (Edexcel) | Two pieces of original writing of 800-1000 words each, plus a commentary of 1000-1250 words |
| Bishop Justus CofE School | Literature | One comparative critical study of two texts, one of them written before 1900, of 2500 words |
| Bishop Justus CofE School | Language | A language investigation with a piece of original writing and commentary, 3,500 words in all |
| Charles Darwin School | Literature (OCR) | Two tasks, a close reading or re-creative piece with commentary and a comparative essay, with combined marks worth 20% |
| Langley Park School for Girls | Language and Literature (OCR) | Two Independent Study pieces, worth 20% in total |
Source: Each school's own published course document (as listed above; Hayes School's sixth-form course booklet), fetched 17 October 2026. Word counts are quoted from the documents, not from the boards' specifications.
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Sources: A level and other 16 to 18 results, 2024/25 (DfE), read through the Explore Education Statistics public API on 17 October 2026; Get Information About Schools (local authority, status, school type, admissions policy, links between establishments), read the same day; and each school's own published documents.
DfE's 2024/25 exam-entry table shows 405 A-level English entries at 22 Bromley providers: 296 in Literature, 58 in Language and 51 in Language and Literature. At state-funded providers DfE counts 376 students who took any of the three. Entries are not students: only 7 of those students sat two of the courses.
Literature is entered at all 22 providers with English entries. Language is entered at four (Bullers Wood School, Langley Park School for Boys, Chislehurst School for Girls and Orion Coopers) and the combined Language and Literature course at three (Hayes School, Langley Park School for Girls and Ravens Wood School). Ask the sixth form which course and board your child is on.
No. DfE publishes 23 English value-added scores across the three courses and three have intervals wholly on one side of zero: Harris Girls Academy Bromley in Literature (+0.64 on 10 entries), Langley Park School for Girls in Language and Literature (+0.47 on 20) and Langley Park School for Boys in Language (-0.88 on 13). The other 20 contain zero, so they cannot be told apart from the national average.
Grades record where students finished; value added compares them with students nationally who had the same GCSE results. At Newstead Wood School and St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School, 38 of 40 Literature entries were A*–B, and their value-added scores are +0.32 and +0.19 with intervals that contain zero. Both schools ask for GCSE grade 7 in English at sixth-form entry, so strong grades are what a strong intake would be expected to produce. The two numbers answer different questions, and neither is a verdict on teaching.
It varies, so check the school's own document. Of the fourteen providers whose documents we read, three ask for grade 5, seven for grade 6 in some combination, and three for grade 7 (Newstead Wood School, St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School and, for Literature, Langley Park School for Girls); Eltham College asks for 9/8/7 in both English GCSEs.
Fourteen of the 22 providers with Literature entries name a board in the documents we read: Edexcel 8, AQA 2, OCR 2, Eduqas 1 and WJEC 1. Edexcel covers 126 of the 223 Literature entries at those providers.
DfE suppresses a score or a grade count when the group is too small to publish. Seven of Bromley's 24 Literature value-added rows (29%) are suppressed, but DfE's entry table shows they hold 17 of the 296 Literature entries (5.7%). Two of the seven, Bishop Challoner School and The Tutorial Foundation, appear in neither entry table.
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