Asia
Nord Anglia Posts Record A-Level Year With Half of Grades at A or Above
The group's China campuses led the way, with Nanjing and Guangzhou each hitting 58 percent A*-A. The network-wide figure of 50.4 percent is the highest the group has recorded.
Nord Anglia Education has recorded its strongest A-level year to date, with 50.4 percent of grades awarded at A* or A and 74.8 percent at A*-B across its global network of 90 schools, according to a statement issued via PR Newswire. More than 900 students received results this week.
Several Asia campuses outperformed the already-high network average. The British School of Nanjing and the British School of Guangzhou each posted 58 percent A*-A, an improvement on their 2025 figures of around 9 percentage points for Nanjing. NAS Suzhou reached 57.9 percent. In Southeast Asia, the British International School Kuala Lumpur achieved 48 percent A*-A, close to the group mean.
What the pattern suggests
Nord Anglia operates a significant cluster of schools across China and Southeast Asia, including campuses in Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City and Kuala Lumpur, as well as several Chinese cities. The consistently strong performance from its China schools, which now match or exceed the group's own average, points to a mature cohort pipeline rather than a one-year spike.
The group's Class of 2026 is proceeding to universities including Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard and Stanford, alongside a broad range of institutions in the global top 100. In a week when individual Hong Kong and Singapore schools have also published strong headline figures, Nord Anglia's group-level data provides a useful benchmark for how the British curriculum is performing across different Asian markets.