The Fulham Boys School – A Level Results – 17th August 2023

The Fulham Boys School is proud to report that this year’s results show continued improvement and another solid record of progress and achievement for our Sixth Form boys. 

In a highly competitive year for admissions, 96% of FBS boys were accepted by their first or second choice university.  

A total of 58 boys were entered for exams; 54 sat A levels, four sat BTECs.  

Headline results are:

• 36% of boys achieved A*-A grades at A level 

• 87% of grades achieved were A*-C at A level

• The average grade per A level entry was a B

• 22% of boys achieved grades that were all A*-A grades (up 10% from 2022) 

• 56% of FBS boys achieved at least one of the top A*or A grades (a 4% increase from 2022) 

Commenting on the results, FBS Headmaster David Smith said: ‘At a time when the national picture shows attainment to be falling across the country, The Fulham Boys School has once again made significant steps forward with its academic outcomes. These results are testament to the huge amount of hard work from our boys. We are incredibly proud that, through years of uncertainty, our young men have fought hard to achieve and go beyond their potential. Many have secured places at the top universities in the country. However, we are equally proud of those who have gained incredible apprenticeships and even signed for Premier League clubs in the last few months. FBS is more than just a school; the academic achievement matters but so does the character displayed throughout their time here. I want to thank our staff and the whole FBS community for all that they have put into the past two years.’

Many of our boys have achieved astounding grades which are testament to their hard work and dedication. Particularly impressive is John’s clean sweep of four A* grades including full marks in Maths A Level – John will be reading Mathematics at UCL – and Titus’s three A* grades to read Mathematics at Durham. We are also delighted that Toma’s achieved two A* grades and an A as well as an A* in his EPQ and will be reading Geography at Oxford University. 

Overall, FBS’s results continue to buck several national trends, including an improvement in attainment across all grades:

• 46% of boys achieved all A*-B grades (an 8% increase from 2022) 

• 74% of boys achieved all A*-C grades (a 20% increase from 2022) 

• Disadvantaged pupils performed broadly in line with the cohort, making greater progress than their peers in Art, Business Studies, Economics, English, Politics, Spanish and Psychology. This is in clear contrast to the national trend of an increasing attainment gap.

FBS’s students will now be taking up university places at some of the best universities in the country on a variety of courses including Geography at Oxford, Mathematics at UCL and Durham, Natural Sciences at UCL, History & Politics at Warwick, Philosophy and Theology at Edinburgh, Computer Science and Sport and Natural Sciences at Loughborough, Economics at Warwick, History at Leeds, Zoology at the University of Gloucestershire and Architecture at Cardiff and UCL. We are delighted that so many of our boys have been accepted into Russell Group Universities and wish all our new cohort of FBS Alumni the greatest success in the future.

We are also thrilled that so many of our boys will be taking up creative courses, for example Animation at Falmouth, Electronic Music Production at the British Institute of Music and Film & Television at Reading. 

Initial analysis shows FBS’s students putting in particularly strong performances in Art, Spanish, Politics, Physics and French where they sit within the top 25% of schools nationally. In Art, Spanish, Geography and Politics more than 60% of the students achieved an A or A* grade. Additionally in the increasingly popular Economics, 83% of boys achieved a B grade or above. 

A full breakdown of results will be released shortly.

Explanation of abbreviations: 

BTEC: Business and Technology Education Council (Applied General Qualification) 

EPQ (Extended Project Qualification)

The Fulham Boys School – GCSE Results – 24th August 2023

The Fulham Boys School is delighted to report another year of successful GCSE results. Great progress has been made since the school’s first GCSEs in 2019, with significant improvements also recorded  against last year’s results – bucking the national trend of falling grades.

Key exam statistics include:

• Every subject has made significant improvements in all grade categories since 2019  

• 90.2% of all FBS GCSE grades were grade 4 or above: 22% above the national average.

• Grade 4+ in English & Maths – 83.5%

• Grade 5+ in English & Maths – 68.8%

• 29 boys achieved at least one grade 9; 26.6% of the cohort 

• 75.5% of all FBS GCSE grades achieved were a grade 5 or above.

• 75.2% of FBS students achieved at least five grade 5s or above.

• 40.2% of all FBS GCSE grades were graded 7 or above.

David Smith, FBS Headmaster, commented: “We are delighted that our students have achieved such a great set of GCSE results, with some outstanding individual success stories. It’s also heartening to see our continued progress as a school, with this year’s results confirming a step change in performance across all departments since 2019.  Our boys have worked tirelessly to meet their potential and lay foundations for the next step of their academic journey. As ever this would not have been possible without the hard work of FBS staff and support from our parents; thank you yet again.’

We are extremely pleased that so many of our boys are today enrolling in our Sixth Form to study A Levels, and also that many have secured alternative education or employment. These include those taking up places in specialist music colleges, digital design, electrical installation, multitrade courses and those going on to sign professional football contracts.

Amongst the very top performing departments are…

• Biology, achieving 85% at grade 7+ (an increase of 11% from 2022); Chemistry, achieving  86% at 7+ (a 21% increase from 2022); and Physics, also achieving 86% at 7+ (a 3% increase from 2022). 

• RE, with  70%  at 7+; Spanish, with 60%  at 7+; PE, with 50% at 7+;  and History with 49% at 7+.

• In Chemistry, Physics, History and Biology 20% or more of boys achieved the top grade 9

• In Chemistry, RE, Physics and Biology 50% of boys achieved a grade 8 or above

We are also delighted with the individual performance of so many of our boys including: 

Daniel Gilmore, who secured  eight grade 9s and three grade 8s

Maxim Subbotsky, with  nine grade 9s, two grade 8s and one grade 6 

Edmund Koe, with six grade 9s, two grade 8s, and three grade 7s

Jadiael Yared with six grade 9s, two grade 8s, and three grade 7s

First Week Back

Please follow this link to the ‘Back to School Arrangements’ document which outlines details of what the arrangements are for different Year groups for the first week back.  The school photographer will be in school on Friday 8th September to take individual photos. Please also note, there will be no co-curricular during the first week back. This will commence again from Monday 11th September. 

FBS Foundation Donations

If you are planning to do this via monthly direct debit via Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) who process our donations, now is a good time to set it up ready for September. This helps the school to plan activities with certainty for the coming academic year in the knowledge that funding is available.

You can set up a regular donation using the Charities Aid Foundation link. There are options for monthly, quarterly, half yearly or annual donations to suit a variety of requirements. Please don’t forget to tick the Gift Aid box to add 25% to your donation at no extra cost to you if you are a UK taxpayer donating your own funds.

If you’d prefer to make a one-off donation please use our one-off donations link. Alternatively, we can accept regular or one-off donations via bank transfer.