It’s not all good news: regional inequality in A-level grades has worsened in the last year. Students in the North East and West Midlands saw the percentage of As and A*s drop by -1 and -0.6 points respectively, with the North East the only region seeing a lower proportion of students with top grades than in 2019.
The gap in A grades between the best performing region (London, where almost a third of students got at least an A) and the lowest performing (the North East) was 9.2 percentage points - the highest regional gap since at least 2019.
It’s worth remembering here that the differences in grades between schools within regions are much larger than the differences between regions in total.
