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St Swithun’s A-level students celebrate a record-breaking year |
Students at St Swithun’s School in Winchester are celebrating today after the school equalled their best-ever year for A-level grades. 33% of all grades were A*, up 8% on last year, and matched 2011 as the best year on record (excluding the pandemic).
70% of the grades were A*/A while 91% received A*-B. Just under two-thirds of the year (65%) earned grades AAA and above, while 17% of the year group achieved three or more A* grades.
Students have been accepted into some of the most prestigious universities in the UK including Durham, Edinburgh, Exeter, Imperial College, King’s College, LSE, St Andrews, York and UCL.
For a fourth year in a row 10% of students have earned places at the universities of Cambridge or Oxford, a school achievement not matched for at least 20 years.
Students in science were celebrating extraordinary results with 53% obtaining A* in biology and 50% in chemistry.
Over half of the year studied maths, with over a third (35%) achieving A* and 84% A*/A.
There were also high performers in several subjects with 100% A*/A grades in French, German, Latin, music and the extended project qualification (EPQ), as well as history, where students achieved 88% A*/A.
Jane Gandee, headmistress at St Swithun’s said, “We are delighted that our students have achieved results that reflect their two years of consistent commitment, critical thinking and intellectual playfulness. Their teachers have relished working with such an independent-minded cohort.”
Head of sixth form, Nick Fyfe commented, “We are incredibly proud of all of our sixth-form students, for what they have achieved today and for the skills they have built to help them thrive in the next stage of their lives and we wish them the best of luck for the future.”
Beyond the overall statistics, numerous students have achieved exceptional results, including:
- Elfye R and Isla J will both be heading to Oxford to read Experimental Psychology and English Literature and Language respectively.
- Hilary C will be reading biochemistry at University College London (UCL) after achieving four A*s.
- Amongst others, Rose W, Megan N, and Heidi M are heading to Cambridge after obtaining excellent results.
- Head girl Noelle L excelled in her exams and received four A*s. She is now off to study medicine.
- Day students Alice C and Eva A will be heading to Exeter and Edinburgh after each collecting three A*s.
Click here to view a full list of grades per subject.
