A WINCHESTER school’s GCSE pass rate has increased by nearly one per cent after they appealed the results.

Kings’ School saw the percentage of students achieving A* to C grades rise in numerous subjects, including maths and English, when 25 students’ grades were successfully overturned.

Head teacher Matthew Leeming said the school’s headline rates increased from 81.7 to 82.3 per cent.

Though 188 appeals were made only 13.3 per cent were successful.

Mr Leeming said: “We did have a number of requests for remarks, as we always do, and the number was slightly higher and we have probably had the normal proportion come back with changes.”

The school’s appeal was one of many across the county though Kings’ is the only secondary school in Winchester to confirm its numbers.

In Romsey, Mountbatten School saw grades improve to 71 per cent while Chamberlayne College of the Arts in Southampton saw their headline figure rise by six per cent. Cantell School lodged 235 appeals seeing 36 grades overturned and Hamble College had 32 successful appeals, leading to a two per cent improvement.

Nationally the number of inquiries questioning GCSE and A-level grades was up by 48 per cent to 450,500, according to exam watchdog Ofqual.

Roughly one in every 33 exam papers marked this year resulted in an inquiry.