A Birmingham boys’ school is celebrating an excellent set of A Level results with 25 of its students heading for Oxbridge.
The number of pupils from King Edward’s School, in Edgbaston, on their way to Oxford and Cambridge is the independent school’s highest number since 2002. Eighteen of the group achieved three A* grades.
Another student Amrit Chahal received a remarkable five A* grades in his chosen subjects.
Chief Master John Claughton said: “This has been an exceptional generation of pupils, not only in academic performance but in the range of their talents, their enthusiasm and character.
“It is a delight that so many boys have fulfilled their potential and so will go on to outstanding careers at university and beyond.”
The school saw a third of their 114 students achieve A* grades in a third of their subjects, and grades A*-B in 95 per cent of their subjects.
But results day also marked the end of an era for the school, after it announced in February it was to become the first independent school to completely scrap A Levels in favour of a diploma course due to concerns about the content and challenge provided by A-levels.
From next month, the teaching of A Levels will cease and all sixth form qualifications will be replaced by the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma.
Meanwhile, King Edward VI High School for Girls, also in Edgbaston, enjoyed a record-breaking crop of results, with 29 per cent of students achieving a grade A*.
They include Cathy Solari, from Sutton Coldfield, who gained five A*s and will be reading physical natural sciences at Cambridge.
Her classmate Alison Hobbes also achieved four A* grades and will be following in her parents' footsteps by studying engineering at Cambridge.
Alison, from Harborne, said: “The opportunity to study at Cambridge is fantastic and I’m looking forward to showing the boys how it’s done.”
Principal Sarah Evans said: “We are extremely proud of all of the hard work put in by our A Level students and their well-deserved results.”
