Official Statistics

Entries and late entries for GCSE, AS and A level: 2025 to 2026 academic year

Statistics on the number of entries that were on time and late for GCSE, AS and A level in England.

• From: Ofqual
• Published: 5 November 2026

Applies to England

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Entries and late entries for GCSE, AS and A level: 2025 to 2026 academic year

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Background information for entries and late entries for GCSE, AS and A level: 2025 to 2026 academic year

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This statistical release presents numbers of component-level entries and late entries and qualification-level results issued for GCSE, AS and A Level for the November 2025 series and June 2026 series, along with historical data dating back to the 2021 to 2022 academic year.

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We are considering discontinuing the entries and late entries for GCSE, AS and A Level statistics. This is because we have seen limited evidence of user interest in the distinction between on-time and late entries and believe that component-level entry figures may no longer be useful to most users.

If you use these statistics, we would like to understand how you use them and what impact discontinuing the publication would have. Please complete our short survey or email our statistics team.

Note that we will continue to publish statistics before each summer and November assessment series which provide provisional figures on entries made, and we will continue to publish statistics on summer qualification results. Both sets of statistics provide information on entries that we believe is of greater value to users.

Key headlines

1. There were 5.7 million GCSE results issued in 2025 to 2026 academic year, an increase of 1.0% compared with the 2024 to 2025 academic year.
2. The number of AS and A Level results issued increased by 2.3%, with around 883,000 issued in the 2025 to 2026 academic year compared with around 863,000 in the 2024 to 2025 academic year.
3. The total number of GCSE component-level entries increased by 1.2%, with just over 15.5 million GCSE entries in the 2025 to 2026 academic year compared with around 15.3 million in the 2024 to 2025 academic year.
4. The total number of AS and A Level component-level entries increased by 4.8%, with just over 2.7 million AS and A Level entries in the 2025 to 2026 academic year compared with around 2.6 million in the 2024 to 2025 academic year.