Academic and boarding
The Royal Ballet School gives talented dancers the chance to pursue a career in classical ballet, alongside their academic education.
Students train full-time in classical ballet alongside their regular academic studies. Entry is by audition and hard work and dedication is required to progress through the school.
Our students come from across the UK and all over the world and are therefore required to live in boarding houses. Younger pupils live within the grounds of White Lodge, Richmond Park and Upper School students live either in Covent Garden or at our new boarding house in Pimlico.
Learn more about what it’s like to be a student of The Royal Ballet School.
Life at White Lodge
Life at Upper School
BA (HONS): CLASSICAL BALLET AND DANCE PERFORMANCE
Validated by The University of Roehampton
The Year 14 (3rd Year) class of 2021 was the second cohort to complete the BA (Hons) degree. There were 20 entries, of which 18 were awarded 1st Class Honours.
FOUNDATION DEGREE: CLASSICAL BALLET AND DANCE PERFORMANCE
Validated by The University of Roehampton
The foundation degree is completed by our Year 13 students. We are delighted to announce that 100% of our 20 candidates achieved a ‘Distinction’.
A LEVEL RESULTS
As outlined above, The Royal Ballet School Upper School students undertake a degree in Classical Ballet and Dance Performance. A small number of students choose to take one A level alongside the degree programme. Numbers of entries are therefore small and so, in any particular year, percentage figures are not statistically significant.
| A* | A | B | C | D | E | U | |
| Total | 4 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| % | 29 | 57 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cumulative % | 29 | 86 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
A LEVEL PASS RATE
| 2021^ | 2020^ | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | |
| Entries | 14 | 6 | 14 | 11 | 12 | 14 |
| Passes | 14 | 6 | 14 | 11 | 12 | 14 |
| Pass Rate | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| %A*-B | 100 | 83 | 50 | 45 | 50 | 29 |
GCSE RESULTS
| 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | U | |
| Total | 74 | 50 | 56 | 28 | 18 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| % | 32 | 22 | 24 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cumulative % | 32 | 53 | 77 | 89 | 97 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
GCSE PASS RATE
| 2021^ | 2020^ | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | |
| Entries | 233 | 178 | 222 | 211 | 211 | 200 |
| % 9-4 (A*-C pre-2019) | 100 | 100 | 95 | 94 | 96 | 98 |
GCSE VALUE ADDED (CEM DATA)*
| 2021^ | 2020^ | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | |
| Overall Value Added | 1.03 | 0.99 | 0.88 | 0.49 | 0.57 | 0.47 |
*More information on the Value Added measure produced by The Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring can be found at www.cem.org. As a rough guide, the recorded number gives a measure of how well the students have done, on average, against what their ability suggested that they might achieve against students of similar ability nationally. For example, a positive result of 0.5 suggests that, overall, the students scored, on average, 0.5 grades higher in each subject than other students of similar ability nationally.
^ Results in 2020 and 2021 were affected by COVID-19. Centre Assessed Grades (2020) and Teacher Assessed Grades (2021) were used instead.