Lord Wandsworth got 70% A*-B and HSDC Alton a 95% pass rate. Fleet's own two secondary schools both stop at 16, so its sixth formers sit exams outside Hart.
Sixth formers across the district collected A level results on Thursday 13 August, and in Hart there were only two places to collect them from. The district has exactly two schools that teach A levels: Yateley School, a community school for ages 11 to 18, and Lord Wandsworth College at Long Sutton, an independent school for ages 11 to 19.
Fleet, much the biggest town in the district, has neither. Both of its secondary schools finish at 16: Calthorpe Park School on Hitches Lane and Court Moor School at Spring Woods are recorded on the government’s school register with an age range of 11 to 16. So are Robert May’s School in Odiham and Frogmore Community College. A Fleet teenager who wants A levels leaves the district to get them.
What Hart’s two A level centres reported
Lord Wandsworth College published its figures on results day. It recorded 12.7% at A*, 37% at A* or A, 70% at A* to B and 90.5% at A* to C, and said the results place it in the top 10% of providers nationally on the Alps progress measure for the second year running. Headmaster Adam Williams said the results were “thoroughly well-deserved”. (Lord Wandsworth College exam results)
That is down on the school’s own 2025 set, which it publishes as 17.9% at A*, 50.2% at A* or A, 81.4% at A* to B and 96.8% at A* to C. (Lord Wandsworth College sixth form results and destinations) Year groups differ in size and subject mix, so a one-year move at a single school is not a trend. It is worth recording plainly, because the school’s own announcement does not.
Yateley School, the district’s only state A level provider, had not published summer 2026 figures on its website when this was written; its exam results section still carried the 2025 set. (Yateley School)
Outside the district, HSDC, which runs Alton College in neighbouring East Hampshire, did publish. It reported a 95% A level pass rate across its Havant and Alton campuses, with 43% of grades at A* to B and 18% at A* or A. At Alton specifically, English Language returned a 100% pass rate with 80% at A* to B and 60% at A* or A, and Art and Design returned 100% with 86% at A* to B and 71% at A* or A. Its T level results came in at a 99% pass rate overall, with Alton’s level 3 Engineering course at 100% and 15% at Distinction or Distinction*. Vocational courses passed at 100% overall, and Alton’s level 3 Film and TV Production recorded 79% high grades. Principal and chief executive Kurt Hintz said the results reflected “our commitment to academic and technical excellence”. (HSDC results, Alton College results day)
The Sixth Form College Farnborough, just over the boundary in Rushmoor, had not posted 2026 figures at the time of writing. Its published 2025 set was a 99.3% A level pass rate with 38.0% of grades at A* or A. (Sixth Form College Farnborough exam results)
The national picture
Ofqual’s official statistics, published at 9.30am on results day, put England at 28.3% of A level results at grade A or above and 78.1% at grade C or above, across 835,950 results. Both are the highest of the four years shown in Ofqual’s table: A and above ran at 28.2% in 2025, 27.6% in 2024 and 26.6% in 2023.
The South East, the region Hart sits in, came in above England on both measures at 31.5% at A or above and 79.5% at C or above, from 166,940 results. Only London did better, at 32.7%. (Ofqual, Qualification results in England summer 2026, table 8)
Centre type matters more than region. Ofqual’s table 9 puts independent schools at 48.6% at A or above and 89.4% at C or above; grammar schools at 43.4% and 88.4%; sixth form colleges at 25.6% and 78.1%; academies at 23.5% and 75.8%; local authority maintained comprehensives at 23.0% and 76.3%; and further education establishments at 12.8% and 63.8%. All state-funded centres together reached 25.4% and 76.8%.
Why these numbers are not like for like
This is the part results day coverage usually skips, and it changes how the figures read.
Ofqual reports A levels only, and only two bands: grade A and above, and grade C and above. Schools and colleges publish what suits them, and often fold other qualifications in. Lord Wandsworth describes its set as “A level and BTEC results”, and its own announcement mentions a BTEC Distinction* among the top performers. HSDC’s 43% figure is for A levels, but the college reports T levels and vocational courses separately and on different scales again.
So the comparisons hold up to different degrees. A* or A against Ofqual’s “A and above” is a fair match. A* to C against “C and above” is roughly a fair match. A* to B has no national equivalent at all, which means a school’s A* to B percentage can only sensibly be set against its own previous years, never against a national figure or another school. If you see an A* to B number quoted next to a national average anywhere this week, the two are not measuring the same thing.
The benchmark also has to fit the centre. HSDC’s 18% at A* or A sits below the England figure of 28.3%, but HSDC is a college, and the right comparison is the 25.6% for sixth form colleges or the 12.8% for further education establishments, not the all-England number that includes every grammar and independent school in the country.
Why a “Hart district” ranking would mislead you
Since 7 August Ofqual has published an interactive map of A level outcomes down to local authority district, and results-day stories elsewhere lean on it for league tables. For Hart, that number would be close to meaningless.
Ofqual states that “all grades and students have been assigned to geographical areas based on the postcodes recorded for exam centres in the National Centre Number (NCN) register”. Grades are counted where the exam was sat, not where the student lives. (Ofqual Analytics, A level grade outcomes by administrative area)
In Hart, the only exam centres offering A levels are Yateley School and Lord Wandsworth College. Every Fleet, Church Crookham, Hook and Odiham student who went to Farnborough, Alton, Basingstoke or Camberley for sixth form is counted in Rushmoor, East Hampshire, Basingstoke and Deane or Surrey Heath. A Hart district figure describes one comprehensive and one independent school, and tells you almost nothing about how the district’s own teenagers did. That is the caveat worth publishing, not the ranking.
What it means for you
If a grade is not what was expected, the deadline that matters first is Thursday 20 August, the cut-off for the priority review of marking, which covers A levels, T levels and level 3 vocational qualifications and is completed within 15 calendar days. It exists for students whose university place depends on the outcome. The standard review of marking and the clerical re-check both close on Thursday 24 September, turned round within 20 and 10 calendar days. (JCQ post-results services)
Two things catch families out. The request goes through the school or college exams officer, not direct to the exam board, and it needs the student’s written consent given after results were published. And there is no grade protection: JCQ is explicit that marks and subject grades “could go down as well as up”. A review is not a free shot.
If you are heading into Clearing, the college and school exams offices are the fastest route to a certified copy of your results, and the same offices handle the review requests, so it is worth settling both in one visit rather than two.
GCSE results follow on Thursday 20 August, the same day the A level priority remark deadline falls.
If your household is about to start a daily run to Farnborough or Alton, our Fleet train times and travel page sets out the services and journey times from Fleet station, and our Fleet roadworks and travel page tracks disruption on the routes out of town. We also follow school and housing applications across the district on our Fleet planning news page.
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