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An alliance of pupils, schools, local councils and teaching unions has lost a High Court challenge over GCSE English exam grades.

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To find out how a school in England performed in the 2012 GCSE and A/AS Level exam results, you can enter a postcode or the school name or town here.

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These are the bottom 10 state schools at GCSE ranked by the percentage of candidates getting at least five A* to C-grades, including English and maths. Lowest performing school is at the top.

• Pate's Grammar School, Cheltenham
• The Rushden Community College
• Barnfield Business and Enterprise Studio Academy
• The Mablethorpe Tennyson High School
• Swaffham Hamond's High School
• Endeavour High School Kingston-upon-Hull
• Christ The King Catholic and Church of England Centre for Learning, Liverpool

• Skerton Community High School, Lancaster
• The Manor - A Foundation School, Cambridge
• The Marlowe Academy, Ramsgate

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These are the top 10 schools in England for A/As Level ranked by the average points score per student. For example, an A-level grade A* scores 300 points, an A scores 270 points, a B scores 240 points, a C scores 210.

• Colchester Royal Grammar School, Essex
• King's College School, Merton
• Sevenoaks School, Kent
• Adcote School for Girls, Shropshire
• King Edward VI Grammar School, Essex
• Pate's Grammar School, Cheltenham
• Altrincham Grammar School for Girls, Trafford
• The Lady Eleanor Holles School, Richmond-Upon-Thames

• King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham
• King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys, Birmingham

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100% of pupils at the following schools in England had pupils with five good GCSEs (five A*-C passes). The average GCSE point score per pupil ranges from 816.3 at Colyton Grammar School to 684.1 in the tenth ranked school in Headington.

• Colyton Grammar School, Devon
• The Rochester Grammar School, Medway
• King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls, Birmingham
• Lawrence Sheriff School, Warwickshire
• King Edward VI Five Ways School, Birmingham
• Skipton Girls' High School, North Yorkshire
• Altrincham Grammar School for Boys, Trafford

• Invicta Grammar School, Kent
• King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford
• Headington School, Oxford

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New tables have been released showing how every school and college in England performed at both GCSE and A-level in 2012. Among the main findings they show:

• Thousands of teenagers in England are being let down because they are not leaving school with a decent set of GCSE results
• Less than 40% of their pupils are gaining at least five GCSEs at grade C or higher, including English and maths

• In addition one in four schools and colleges are not producing any students with top grades in subjects that will help them win a place at a leading university
• In around 600 schools and colleges no A-level student scored AAB in "facilitating" or preferred subjects

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Councillor Judith Blake, deputy leader of Leeds City Council said: "We're here on behalf of the thousands of young people who we believe have been treated grossly unfairly. We're here to seek justice on their behalf.

"We do not believe it's right that the incompetence of Ofqual and the exam boards should be picked up by them.

"There are many young people who have not been able to gain access to their apprenticeships, the course that they wanted as a result of this."

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Michael Barry, the headteacher of St Matthew Academy in Blackheath, London, tells ITV News that Ofqual's findings have "tarnished the teaching profession" and says the body should have resolved the issue by re-grading the GCSE English exams.

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Pupils from St Matthew Academy in Blackheath, London, tell ITV News about the pressures they are facing now that their GCSE English results have been downgraded by the exams regulator.

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