Leighton Park students celebrate record A Level results

Once again, Leighton Park students are celebrating a 99% pass rate, the sixth year running it has been between 98 and 100%. No less than 43% of the A level results were Grade A, with almost three quarters of all pupils' grades (72%) being A or B, both figures up 4% on last year.

Nearly a quarter of the students - fourteen out of 49 in the year group - achieved three or more A grades, twelve of them gaining straight As.

 

Felix Wong is one of the candidates who scored one of the top five marks in Further Mathematics in the country (exam board AQA), a remarkable achievement.

Leighton Park's strong academic track record across the whole range of subjects has been highlighted in a new report by the Good Schools Guide, the only independent directory of private and state schools. Head, John Dunston explained: "I am often asked what subjects we are strong in, as if a school can only achieve strong results in a specific area. At Leighton Park, once again our A level results show that not only do our scientists and mathematicians produce excellent results year in, year out, but so do our students of modern foreign languages and the humanities. For example, no less than 68% of the Maths students achieved a grade A, (with a third of the whole year taking the subject) while eight of the ten students taking Art also got the highest grade. In the week when the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) called for the sciences to the studied separately, as they are at Leighton Park, 71% of the Chemistry and Physics grades at the school were A/B with 60% in Biology".

For the ninth year in a row, students have actually averaged over three A level passes each.