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Girls outpoint boys in GCSEs

Girls have convincingly outperformed boys in GCSE exams at Jewish schools this year. Read on to see a full table of results

January 27, 2017 14:59
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Girls are outperforming boys in GCSE exams at Jewish schools, according to new data released by the Department for Education.

But the margin of difference is still smaller than the national average for English schools, where girls do five points better than boys on the “Attainment 8” score, one of the new performance measures introduced by the government this year.

Hasmonean girls scored four points higher than boys— 63.2 to 59.2 and the picture was similar at JFS where girls scored 65.2 to the boys’ 61.3. 

At Yavneh College, girls achieved 62.4 compared with 59.6 for boys.