This year’s cohort of IB Diploma students at Ardingly are celebrating an outstanding set of results in their 2025 exams. Their average points total is a fantastic 39.8, which is the College’s highest ever for a non-Covid year. These scores should see Ardingly easily retain its usual place in the Top 10 UK schools for the IB, as well as ranking the College among the best performing IB schools globally.
Our students also achieved the College’s highest ever average core points total of 2.3 and highest proportion of 6s and 7s (equivalent to As and A*s) at both Higher Level and Standard Level. Two of our students achieved the maximum score of 45, with 64% of the cohort scoring an average of 40 or above. To put this in context, the global average points score for the IB Diploma last summer was 30.3 points.
Ben Figgis, Head of the College, was full of praise for this cohort’s attitude and well-deserved success: “Huge congratulations are due to our IB students on their exceptional results this year. These students have worked hard and shown great resilience as they tackled what is a particularly rigorous course of study across six academic subjects and the Core. They fully deserve their success and I am delighted to see them achieve the scores they need take up their places at some of the best universities in the world.”
Naomi Rice, the IB Coordinator at Ardingly, commented: “I am thrilled by the results our Upper Sixth IB students have achieved this year. They have been an absolute pleasure to work with over the last two years and I have been very impressed by the way they have supported each other through what is a highly challenging academic programme. They should be extremely proud of themselves and all they have achieved. Well done, everyone!”
About Ardingly College
Ardingly College is an award-winning, co-educational day and boarding school for children aged from 3 to 18. The College has won several national awards for its focus on preparing students to thrive in a rapidly changing world (including winning The Week’s ‘Best Preparation for Life’ award and being named ‘Independent School of the Year for Student Careers’ in 2024.) Ardingly offers a choice of sixth form pathway, with about a third of its sixth form students choosing to take the IB Diploma and the remaining two-thirds studying A-Levels. At the most recent ISI Inspection, in June 2024, the College became the first boarding school in the UK to be awarded a ‘significant strength’ for boarding, the highest accolade available under the new inspection regime. The College was also recently shortlisted as ‘Independent Boarding School of the Year’ by the Independent Schools Awards, with the winner due to be announced in October 2025.
