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Stonyhurst pupils achieve 100% Oxbridge Success

Once again Stonyhurst is celebrating a strong performance at A-level. 100% of the students who have offers to study in Oxford or Cambridge have achieved their dream to attend one of the top universities in the country. Students have gained a clutch of A-grades to secure places on courses as diverse as Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Theology and History of Art at both Oxford and Cambridge.

There have been some outstanding personal success stories. Two students achieved 6 A-grades each and three more achieved 5 A-grades. A further thirteen pupils achieved three or more A-grades each.

The percentage of A-grades was up from 35% last year to 38%. The national average is 26.5% so once again Stonyhurst has far outstripped national results.

More than three quarters of the candidates in Mathematics got an A grade and almost two thirds got A grades in Economics. There were also outstanding performances in English, Chemistry, Latin, German and French with more than 75% of these pupils achieving A or B grades. The UCAS points per student has also risen from 317 last year to 330, a 4% increase.

Headmaster Andrew Johnson commented: “We are very proud of all of the achievements of our Sixth Formers and their teachers who have worked extremely hard to gain these excellent results.’

‘There are some tremendous top results, and many of those who didn’t make straight A’s have performed well beyond expectations too.’

“It is encouraging that our students have once again performed strongly in a whole variety of subjects whilst also taking part in the wide ranging extra curricular activities on offer here at Stonyhurst. We wish all the students well as they go out into the world to be men and women for others.”

SENSATIONAL RESULTS AT BROMSGROVE SCHOOL

164 pupils at Bromsgrove School sat 522 A levels this year and, remarkably, almost 60% of all grades were A, with a third of all pupils scoring three or more straight As. 84% of all grades fell into the A/B bracket, while the A to E pass rate was 99.8%. Local Head boy Alex Harding achieved four straight As and will join many other Bromsgrovians at Oxford next year.

Some subjects achieved 100% A and B grades (including disciplines as diverse as Geography, Latin, Music, Drama and ICT) and strikingly high A grade percentages were recorded by Maths, Further Maths and Art.

For the first time ever, Bromsgrove had a few pupils taking BTEC alongside A level, and all achieved 100% double distinction (equivalent to two A levels each at grade A). Sadly, these brilliant results cannot appear in A/B league tables and attendant percentages.

In the Lower Sixth, 64 pupils (a third) gained the equivalent of at least four As at AS level.

Headmaster Chris Edwards reiterated his observations of last year: “Sky high expectations, flair and titanic breadth produced these superb grades, not battery farming. We don’t do soft subjects to look better in league tables, and we enter every single pupil. No spin: just quality. Staff and pupils should be proud and thrilled.”