Cheltenham International
From results plateau to a 37-point average
An established IB school had been stuck at a 28-point average for years. Eighteen months in, they were posting some of the strongest results in their region.
28 → 37
IB diploma average
01 — The problem
Strong intake, weak outcomes. Teaching varied wildly between classrooms. Assessment was generous in places and brutal in others. Nobody on the leadership team could tell you, in a sentence, what good teaching looked like in their school.
02 — The approach
Five weeks on the ground, sitting in lessons across every department. Then named improvement plans, owned by heads of department — not by us. Six-week coaching cycles for teachers. The assessment calendar rewritten from scratch.
03 — The result
Diploma average rose from 28 to 33 in year one, then to 37 in year two. The number of students scoring 40+ more than doubled. Teacher retention went up alongside the results, not down.
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