A WARRINGTON high school is celebrating after achieving its best-ever GCSE results.
Headline figures showed 97 per cent of pupils at Lymm High achieve five plus A* to C passes and 73 per cent A* to C passes, including English and Mathematics.
This was a record for the school since it went comprehensive in the 1980s.
Headteacher Angela Walsh (pictured) said: “The students and staff worked extremely hard to achieve these outstanding results and clearly our new programme of catering and supporting individual students in an extremely focused way has paid off.”
School governor Coun Sheila Woodyatt – the borough council’s executive member with responsibility for education – said: “What excellent results! We are very proud to have a new school record for examination achievement. Well done to everyone!”
Top individual performances came from Georges Rouillon, Catherine Edwards, Jessica Bowell, Charlie Coughlan, Toby Foster, Richard Goodall, Harry Musson and Louise Pomfret, who all achieved either or more A* grades.
The celebrations followed those of last week when the school recorded excellent A Level results.
Overall pass rates were 99 per cent for A level and 100per cent for BTEC.
A total of 56 per cent of all A level grades were A and B – 27 per cent at grade A.
Eighteen students achieved straight A grades in three or more subjects.
A total of 122 students of the 153 taking A level exams achieved at least one A grade.
Top individual performances were: Sean Hewitt: Five A grades at A level (Cambridge); Jonathan Edwards: four A grades at A level plus Distinction in History advanced extension award (Oxford, Law); Oliver Layfield: four A grades at A level and Merit in Physics advanced extension award (Cambridge, Natural Sciences); Stephen Legg: four A grades at A level (Manchester); Elisabeth Gellert: four A grades at A level (Oxford).
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Bit worrying, isn’t it, that when you include English and Maths, the pass rate falls?
Apparently, teaching kids to read, write and count is less of a priority than making sure that their uniforms look smart.
seems that all schools are reflecting ‘ best ever ‘ results as they do every year !!!! either the exams are getting easier every year or there is a passion by the authorities to look good !!!
Bit of both I’d say. Schools are getting good at cynically entering kids only for subjects they know they’ll pass, at the same time as curricula are covering less and less of the subject.
Much of the work I had to learn at O’level is now part of the A’level course, and a lot of what used to be A’level is now not taught at all.
Our kids have all worked really hard and achieved good things, but as usual, the first comments are a bunch of snide remarks undermining everything! If you can’t say “Well Done!” and mean it, then you’re a very sad person. I am delighted to see so many students getting what they needed to move on. I think it’s great – Congratulations all round!