Latymer, Ark John Keats and Oasis Hadley published GCSE numbers. The council's statement carried none. London led England on 30.2% at grade 7 or above.
Year 11 students across Enfield collected their GCSE results on Thursday 20 August. By the following morning, three of the borough’s secondary schools had published figures of their own. Every other Enfield school had posted congratulations, arrangements or nothing at all.
Enfield Council’s statement carried no numbers either. There is also no official borough figure to fall back on, because the national statistics are not broken down that far.
So this is what the record actually shows, and what it does not.
The three Enfield schools that published figures
- The Latymer School, Haselbury Road, Edmonton. Selective. It reports that over a third of all grades were a grade 9, 66% were grade 8 or above, and 85% were grade 7 or above.
- Ark John Keats Academy, Bell Lane, Enfield Wash. Non-selective. It reports an Attainment 8 score of 50.2 and an indicative Progress 8 score of +0.7, with 52% of students achieving grade 5 or above in both English and maths.
- Oasis Academy Hadley, South Street, Enfield. Non-selective. It reports that over half of students achieved grade 4 or above in both English and maths, and that one in ten reached grade 7 or above in both.
Katie Marshall, principal of Ark John Keats, said the results placed this year “among AJK’s strongest results to date”. Tony Peel, deputy principal at Oasis Academy Hadley, said the academy was “particularly pleased to see so many students now moving on to ambitious next steps”.
Enfield Grammar School has not published GCSE figures for 2026. Its standing results page stacks a press release for every year back to 2021, and it already carries the 2026 A-level release. Checked on 21 August, the most recent GCSE entry on it is still 2025.
You cannot rank these three schools against each other
Each of them reports on a different basis, and none of the three bases is interchangeable with the others.
- Latymer publishes a share of grades: of every GCSE entry sat by its Year 11 cohort, what proportion landed at 9, at 8 or above, at 7 or above.
- Ark John Keats publishes Attainment 8 and Progress 8. Attainment 8 is an average points score across eight subjects per student. Progress 8 measures those students against others nationally who started secondary school at the same level.
- Oasis Hadley publishes threshold measures: the percentage of students clearing a grade in two named subjects.
A school can look strong on one and ordinary on another. Latymer is also selective, which means its intake is chosen by examination, so a comparison with a non-selective academy down the road measures admissions as much as teaching.
What the national figures say, and why there is no Enfield one
Ofqual published its results tables at 9.30am on results day. They are broken down by region and by type of school, and they are the only official numbers available today.
London had the strongest results of the nine English regions on both headline measures. Counting only results issued to 16 year olds, which strips out resits:
Counting all ages, including resits, London recorded 28.6% at grade 7 or above and 71.7% at grade 4 or above, against 21.8% and 67.0% for England.
There is no local authority breakdown in the data tables. Ofqual runs a separate interactive visualisation covering administrative areas, but it publishes a warning worth repeating. Schools and colleges are assigned to an area by the location of the exam centre, not by where the student lives. A borough with a large selective school will therefore rank on the results of children who may travel in from several boroughs away.
The fairest benchmark for a selective school is other selective schools
Ofqual also breaks results down by type of centre, and the gaps are wide. Across England in 2026, all subjects and all ages:
| Type of centre | Grade 7 and above | Grade 4 and above |
|---|---|---|
| Grammar schools | 63.2% | 97.4% |
| Independent schools | 47.1% | 88.4% |
| Local authority comprehensives | 20.1% | 68.6% |
| Academies | 19.7% | 68.2% |
| All state-funded | 20.6% | 66.1% |
That grammar-school row is the honest comparison for Latymer, and it is a demanding one. Latymer’s 85% at grade 7 or above sits well above the 63.2% national grammar average, on roughly the same basis. Set against the London figure of 30.2%, the same result would say far less, because it would mostly be measuring selection.
The same table carries a trap in the other direction. It also lists sixth form colleges at 3.9% and further education establishments at 1.3% at grade 7 or above. Those two are resit centres. They are teaching students who did not reach a grade 4 first time, so the low figures describe the task, not the institution.
What it means for you
If a grade looks wrong, the deadline is 24 September. For Edexcel GCSEs sat this summer, Pearson’s published key dates give 24 September 2026 as the closing date for all three review-of-marking services and for access to scripts. A clerical re-check is completed within 10 calendar days of the request. Two things families regularly get wrong:
- The request goes through the school’s exams officer, not the student or parent directly.
- There is no grade protection. A reviewed grade can go up, stay the same, or go down.
Other exam boards publish their own key dates, so check which board set the paper before assuming the same deadline applies.
If the results change the plan, Enfield Council ran a Careers Service phone line on results day itself, on 020 3821 1959. For continuing help, the council points young people to the Enfield Youth Hub, which is free and open to 16 to 18 year olds, and to 18 to 25 year olds with an Education, Health and Care Plan. It offers careers guidance, help with CVs and application forms for apprenticeships, courses and jobs, and skills and careers assessments.
One caveat before you travel. The Youth Hub page lists drop-in sessions from 2pm to 4pm at Community Room 1, Edmonton Green Library, 36-44 South Mall, N9 0TN. Checked on 21 August, the only session date listed on it was Monday 20 July 2026, which has passed. The referral form on the same page is the reliable route, and it accepts referrals from young people, parents and carers as well as from professionals.
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Sources
- The Latymer School, GCSE results, published 20 August 2026, for its grade 9, grade 8 and grade 7 shares. The URL is reused each year.
- Ark John Keats Academy, “Excellent GCSE results for students at AJK!” for its Attainment 8, Progress 8 and English and maths figures, and the principal’s comment.
- Oasis Academy Hadley, GCSE results post, 20 August 2026, for its English and maths thresholds and the deputy principal’s comment.
- Enfield Grammar School results page, checked 21 August 2026, which carries the 2026 A-level release but no 2026 GCSE release.
- Enfield Council, GCSE results day statement from Cllr Chris Dey, 20 August 2026, for the council’s response and the careers phone line.
- Enfield Youth Hub, checked 21 August 2026, for what the service offers and the drop-in session listing.
- Ofqual, Qualification results in England summer 2026, tables 19a, 19b and 20 in the accompanying data tables, for the regional and centre-type figures and the note on how centres are assigned to areas.
- Pearson, post-results services key dates and post-results services, for the 24 September deadline and the review process.
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