Just months after it was announced that the Sixth Form Centre is dropping the IB Programme, this year’s cohort have knocked it out of the park with their results.
17 students took the full International Baccalaureate Diploma, achieving a 100% pass rate and an average total point score of 35.
That compares with the 2024 worldwide average point score of 30.3.
The average individual subject grade across all students was 5.5, which is above the 2024 worldwide average of 4.6.
Kieran James, Principal of The Sixth Form Centre, is rightly very proud of them all.
“Our IB Diploma results this year are amongst our best ever, and significantly higher than the global average. We are thrilled with these Diploma scores, which are testament to the hard work of our students and the dedication of their teachers.”
Guernsey’s Director of Education, Nick Hynes also congratulated the IB students on their results.
“Congratulations to all students who took the full IB Diploma or IB certificates. This is a very impressive set of results and a credit to both students and staff at the Sixth Form Centre. I’d like to wish all of the students the very best in taking their next steps after sixth form.”
Among the individual success stories are two students who achieved 42 and 43 out of 45 points respectively. That is equivalent to achieving four or more A* grades at A Level.
Alongside the 17 students receiving their full IB Diploma results, an additional 85 students studied at least one IB subject certificate in Psychology, Digital Society, Film, or Spanish alongside their A Level subjects.
Those students have also received their IB results, but their grades will be reported with their A Level results in August.
The 17 full IB Diploma students received their results on Sunday, and yesterday the Sixth Form Centre said it is “delighted” with them.
It said this year’s Year 13 students are the eleventh cohort of IB Diploma students at the Sixth Form Centre since it became an accredited IB World School and started offering the two-year IB Diploma Programme in 2012.
However, they are also the penultimate year group to be able to study the full IB Diploma, as it is being paused due to a low uptake for next year.
It was announced in April that the Sixth Form Centre won’t be running the IB Diploma Programme for new students during the next school year.
Those students currently in Year 12 will continue their studies in Year 13 from September, but students joining the Sixth Form Centre next term were denied the option to study the full Diploma programme after only 14 signed up.
Students starting at the Sixth Form Centre this September, who had chosen an IB subject as part of their pathway of study alongside A-Levels will still be able to do it, but the full IB programme won’t be available.