Four schools in the area have published 2026 GCSE figures. Glebelands reports 87% of grades at 4 or above, Broadwater 83%. Farnham's own three have not.
Four schools across Farnham, Godalming, Haslemere and Cranleigh have put 2026 GCSE figures on their own websites. Glebelands School in Cranleigh reports 87% of grades at 4 or above and calls it the strongest year in its history.
Results were issued on Thursday 20 August. Two days on, Farnham’s own three secondary schools have published no figures at all.
This page carries every number each school has published, set against the national data that came out the same morning, and what a household can still do this week if the grades were not what it hoped for.
Glebelands School, Cranleigh
The school describes the year as record-breaking. Its published figures:
- 87% of all GCSE grades at grade 4 or above
- 32% of grades at 7 to 9
- 85% of students at grade 4 or above in both English and maths
- 56% at grade 5 or above in both
- an Attainment 8 score of 56.35
- 87% of students with two or more grades at 9 to 4 in science
Glebelands says the 56.35 is the highest it has recorded, and that a score at that level “would in previous years put the school in the top 15% of schools nationally”. That is the school’s own comparison, not an official ranking, and the Department for Education will not publish verified 2026 performance tables until next year. The school also notes it is a non-selective comprehensive whose intake is at the national average on entry (Glebelands School, Academic Results).
Broadwater School, Godalming
Broadwater, part of the Greenshaw Learning Trust, published:
- 83% of all grades at grade 4 or above
- 36% of all grades at 7 to 9
- 76% of students at grade 4 or above in both English and maths
- 63% at grade 5 or above in both
The school set its 36% against “a national average of 22%” (Broadwater School, examination results). That comparator is close to the real England figure for all ages, 21.8%. The benchmark section below explains why the fairer one is a little higher.
Cranleigh School
The independent school reports 71% of all results at grades 9 to 7, with 48% at 9 to 8. Eighteen pupils achieved grades 9 to 8 in every one of their GCSEs.
By subject group, 80% of STEM entries and 85% of humanities entries were at 9 to 7, and 81% in drama. Head Sam Price said the results were achieved “alongside rich co-curricular commitments” (Cranleigh School, 20 August 2026).
St Catherine’s, Bramley
The girls’ independent school publishes a nine-year table, so its 2026 results can be read against its own past years rather than anyone else’s. This summer:
| Grade band | 2026 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 32% | 33% |
| 9 to 8 | 62% | 59% |
| 9 to 7 | 83% | 79% |
| 9 to 6 | 92% | 91% |
| 9 to 5 | 97% | 97% |
| 9 to 4 | 99% | 99% |
Its 9 to 7 share is up four percentage points on last year (St Catherine’s, Public Examinations). The figures cover GCSE and IGCSE together, and the school enters IGCSEs in biology, chemistry, English, geography and history.
The schools that have not published
Farnham’s three secondary schools have posted no 2026 GCSE figures as of Saturday 22 August:
- Weydon School lists results booklets up to 2025 on its School Results page, and its news feed has not been added to since January (Weydon School, School Results)
- Farnham Heath End School still shows 2025 headline figures on its exam results page, alongside a message on results day congratulating students (Farnham Heath End, Exam Information & Results)
- All Hallows Catholic School has published its 2026 A level results but has added no GCSE section for this year (All Hallows, Exam Results)
Two more in the district are in the same position. Woolmer Hill School in Haslemere still heads its page “GCSE Results 2025” (Woolmer Hill, Exam Results), and Rodborough School at Milford lists 2024 and 2025 only (Rodborough, Exam & Key Stage Results).
Two days is not long, and schools commonly add figures once entries have been checked. None of them is under any obligation to publish early. It is worth saying plainly all the same, because the schools that do publish are the only reason anyone locally has numbers to look at this week.
How the local figures compare
Ofqual published the national results the same morning. For all subjects combined in summer 2026, across every age group in England, 21.8% of GCSE results were at grade 7 or above and 67.0% at grade 4 or above.
That England figure is the one to be careful with. It includes the resit entries taken at colleges, which drag it down: further education establishments recorded 17.6% at grade 4 or above and sixth form colleges 32.2%, because almost everyone sitting there is retaking English or maths. A school’s Year 11 cohort contains none of that.
The four benchmarks worth laying side by side:
| Benchmark, summer 2026 | Grade 7+ | Grade 4+ |
|---|---|---|
| England, all ages | 21.8% | 67.0% |
| England, 16-year-olds | 23.1% | 70.7% |
| South East, all ages | 24.5% | 69.9% |
| South East, 16-year-olds | 25.8% | 73.2% |
By school type, academies recorded 19.7% at grade 7 or above and 68.2% at grade 4 or above, local authority comprehensives 20.1% and 68.6%, and independent schools 47.1% and 88.4%. Grammar schools, which the area has none of, recorded 63.2% and 97.4% (Ofqual, Qualification results in England summer 2026, tables 19a, 19b and 20).
One caution before anyone lines the schools up against each other. They are not reporting on the same basis. Glebelands, Broadwater and Cranleigh School give the share of grades; the English and maths figures are the share of students. St Catherine’s and Cranleigh School are fee-charging and select their intake, and St Catherine’s is girls-only. Independent-school figures also include IGCSEs, which sit outside the Ofqual tables entirely. The numbers are worth reading. A league table built from them would not be.
What it means for you
If a grade looks wrong, the deadline is 24 September. Two services are open. A clerical re-check confirms the marks were added up and recorded correctly and comes back within 10 calendar days. A review of marking is a fuller check and takes up to 20. Both close on Thursday 24 September 2026. The faster priority service that closed on results day covers A levels and Level 3 vocational qualifications only, not GCSEs (JCQ, post-results services).
Two things households get wrong about it:
- the request goes through the school’s exams officer, not direct to the exam board, and needs the student’s written consent given after results were published
- there is no grade protection, so a mark and a grade can go down as well as up
Resits are in early November. Anyone below grade 4 in English or maths normally has to keep studying the subject post-16. The Pearson Edexcel papers this autumn are English Language on Tuesday 3 and Thursday 5 November, and maths on Wednesday 4, Friday 6 and Monday 9 November, all in the morning (Pearson Edexcel, GCSE November 2026 final timetable). Entries go through the school or college.
If a post-16 place is still unsettled, it is worth knowing where local Year 11 students actually go. Farnham Heath End publishes its destinations table, and of its 217 leavers in July 2025, 32% went to Farnborough College of Technology, 31% to Sixth Form College Farnborough, 14% to Activate Learning colleges including Farnham College, 7% to Alton College, and 3% each to Godalming College and the sixth form at All Hallows (Farnham Heath End, destinations). Two of the largest destinations are over the county line in Hampshire.
Our A level results round-up from last week carries the same treatment for the area’s sixth forms. For families weighing a move around a school place, our Farnham house prices page sets out what homes actually sell for in each postcode.
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