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Best ever A Level results

 
Local school pupils are celebrating their best A Level results ever. 97.8% of students passed their exams, an increase of 1.8 percentage points compared with last year.

The borough performance at 97.8% is above the provisional national average of 96.9%.

Pass rates

Three schools - Plumstead Manor, Thomas Tallis and Shooters Hill Post-16 Campus - all had a 100% pass rate at A – E grades.  

Five out of the seven schools for pupils over 16 improved on their A Level pass rate from last year. 

The biggest improvements in performance were at Blackheath Bluecoat (up 12.9 percentage points on last year), Kidbrooke (up 6.5 percentage points) and Thomas Tallis (up 5.4 percentage points).

Higher grades

The percentage of higher A Level grades at A – C in Greenwich in 2007 was 65.1%, which is an increase of 0.6 percentage points compared with last year.

Thomas Tallis had the highest proportion of higher grades at A - C at 74%, followed by Shooters Hill at 72.4%.

The percentage of A grades achieved in Greenwich in 2007 was 15.2%, up from 13.2% in 2006.

Congratulations!

Councillor Jackie Smith, Greenwich Council’s Cabinet Member for Children and Young People’s Services is delighted at the news and said: 

"Well done to all those pupil and teachers who have worked really hard to make this year’s results the best ever.  I’m particularly pleased to see that our pupils have beaten the national average score and results have improved consistently over the last 3 years.

"Our huge investment in high quality teaching and first class facilities is clearly paying dividends.  We want our young people to achieve in Greenwich so that they can progress towards higher education, training and employment.

"This great news forms part of a revolution in post-16 education in Greenwich, which has seen the numbers of students choosing to study in the borough increase by 92% since 2001.

"Congratulations to everyone who has played a part in these results and I wish all our pupils the very best of luck for the future."

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16 August 2007

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