In just over three weeks time we will see the first cohort of GCSE students decipher a mix of letters and numbers in their results. Here’s our guide to the new numerical grading system and what it means for pupils.

Policy makers must do more to help children in deprived areas whose education suffers during the 170 days a year when the school gates are closed.

Pupils at east London’s Swanlea Secondary in Whitechapel notched up 65 A* grades in their GCSEs and a further 183 at A grade.

One pupil got an astonishing 11 A* grades in her GCSE exams at Bethnal Green Academy in east London.

Exited pupils got many A* and A grades in their GCSE results today at Oaklands Secondary in London’s East End which didn’t quite match last year’s record—but at least kept them in the country’s top 10 per cent.

Any confusion over the change in the way schools’ performances are now assessed with today’s GCSE results hasn’t stopped Bethnal Green’s Morpeth Secondary reaching for the stars.

The new Bow Secondary campus on the banks of the Lea River in east London is flooded in A*s and As in only its second year of GCSE results.

Pupils at Poplar’s Langdon Park Secondary in east London have cocked a snoop at the national GCSE results which have shown a decline in top grades this year.

Another consecutive year of top GCSE results is today’s score-line at Stepney’s Bishop Challoner Schools in east London which have bucked the national declining trend.

A school in the heart of the deprived East End of London has managed a 75 per cent GCSE pass rate in top A*-to-C grades—with a little mentoring help from big business in Canary Wharf and the City.

Students across Tower Hamlets are picking up their GCSE results this morning.

Spitalfields Market hosted 6,000 canines of all shapes and sizes from across England for its third annual Paw Pageant on Monday.

The change from GCSE course modules to end-of-course final exams hit many schools battling to keep their pass-rates high.

Two classmates at Bethnal Green Academy do everything together—study, play, go out and both even want to go to medical school to become doctors.

Liam Joseph-Beckles has been expelled from several schools and was not educated in mainstream provision.

Avid novel readers might want to look out for a bright 16-year-old sporting a bow tie who got five A*s and four As at Morpeth Secondary in London’s East End.

Two school pals who play football together a lot before getting down to their GCSE studies have notched up 19 A* grades and seven As between them.

The wait is finally over for thousands of pupils who will collect their GCSE results today.

Thousands of students across the borough are anxiously awaiting their GCSE results tomorrow morning.

Kids as young as 11 have been taking—and passing—their GCSE exams at school in London’s East End.

Pupils in Tower Hamlets brought home the borough’s best ever GCSE results, it has been confirmed.

Over-achieving pupils in Tower Hamlets have bucked the national trend by posting improved GCSE results for yet another year.

More than six-out-of-10 pupils at Swanlea Secondary in London’s East End made it to top grades, one of the school’s best years ever.

Pupils at Bow School in London’s East End are celebrating today’s record-breaking GCSE results—the best ever in its history.

Pupils from Mulberry School for Girls were left jumping for joy today, with more than 60 per cent of them getting five A*-B grades in their GCSEs.