Local girl Elizabeth Leather is one of many Bromsgrove School pupils who will be celebrating after the School’s Upper Sixth achieved the best top end A level results in the School’s history.
Elizabeth won a choral scholarship to her Headmaster’s Oxford College, Merton, after managing to achieve an A* in Music as well as 40 points in the International Baccalaureate – an extraordinary double.
Overall, 170 pupils sat 598 A levels and achieved a remarkable 88.0% A* to B grades with 61% at A* and A, and a quarter at A*. Close to one half of the pupil body achieved three or more As and A*s, with over 20% achieving four or more A and A* grades.
All Oxford and Cambridge candidates achieved their offers. The average UCAS point tariff at A level was 440, which is equivalent to A*, A, A at A level with a further A grade in an AS level.
(The average Bromsgrove International Baccalaureate tariff was in excess of 500 UCAS points).
Headmaster Chris Edwards said:
“To secure these sensational averages in a year when many bright pupils had actually opted for the International Baccalaureate and achieved equally stunning outcomes a month earlier is nothing less than remarkable. Staff, pupils and parents should be bursting with pride. And we are doing this in the subjects that really matter. For example: eighty two pupils sat A level Maths with almost half achieving A* and over three quarters getting at least an A. These young men and women will make a difference in and to the future.”