Students Achieve Excellent Progress with A-level & BTEC Results
Published by Lord Wandsworth College on Wednesday 19th of August 2026
The ancient Greeks had a wonderfully simple solution to explaining life.
If something went spectacularly wrong, they blamed the gods.
Missed the wind for your voyage? Poseidon. Fell in love with the wrong person? Aphrodite. Thankfully, life has become a little more rational, but the appeal of Greek mythology hasn’t faded, as the box office success of The Odyssey proves.
This is because the best myths are never really about sea monsters or one-eyed giants. They’re about the business of growing up.
Odysseus spent 20 years trying to get home from a war that should have exhausted him. Along the way, he made some brilliant (and not so brilliant) decisions, alongside the occasional choice that prompted everyone to ask, ‘What on earth were you thinking?’
This, if we’re honest, sounds remarkably like adolescence.
At Lord Wandsworth College, we believe that the best education is an odyssey. The most important journeys are those that quietly change who we become.
This summer’s A-level and BTEC results are one part of our Upper Sixth odyssey and have placed us, for the second consecutive year, in the top 10% (or higher) of schools and colleges nationally for progress made in Sixth Form. 70% of results were graded A*-B, with 90.5% A*-C. There were some particularly exceptional results in Economics, Art, Enterprise & Entrepreneurship, Psychology and PE.
Congratulations to Oxana, who has achieved 4 A* grades and Caleb, who has received 2 A*’s and 2 A’s. Joshua, Alice and Thomas were all awarded 2 A*’s and an A (with Thomas gaining an additional B), whilst Harry and Charles achieved 1 A*, 1 A and a BTEC Distinction *. Lula, Millie and Maclaren all achieved 1 A* and 2 A’s. Meanwhile, there were 3 grade A’s for Felicity, Bella and Phoebe. Charlie achieved 2 A*’s and a B.
These results mean that on average, Sixth Formers at LWC make more progress than 90% of other students based elsewhere in the country, according to the Alps performance analysis system.
A-level & BTEC Results 2026
70% = A*-B
90.5% = A*-C
But numbers are only part of this journey.
More importantly, the young people passing through the Acorn Gates to make a positive difference in the world are curious, resilient and determined, helped in part by the quietly revolutionary lessons learned here. These lessons will serve our students long after they’ve forgotten how to solve an equation, and better than any algorithm ever could.
Our ambition has always been to widen worlds: to help young people become inwardly self-confident and outwardly modest, passionate and curious, ambitious to not only find their place in the world but to help change it. This philosophy works. LWC has been shortlisted for the second consecutive year in the Independent Schools of the Year Awards, has received national recognition for its outstanding pastoral care and begins the new academic year with bumper numbers.
As the sun sets on this part of the journey for our Upper Sixth leavers, we know they move into the next stage of their odyssey with purpose, kindness and character. Their own Ithaca awaits.
