West Buckland School has been placed in the UK’s Top 40 co-educational boarding schools, based on A-Level results.
It is one of only two West Country co-ed boarding schools to make the list, positioning itself amongst some of the best-known and most selective schools in the country.
The ranking table, produced for Best-Schools.co.uk by independent body Education Advisers Ltd, measures the number of A* and A grades awarded to students.
The result is particularly pleasing given West Buckland’s largely non-selective policy and only requires students to have a minimum of 5 GCSEs at grade 5 or above to enter the Sixth Form in Year 12.
The school also features in the Top 100 for GCSE results out of all boarding schools in the UK, which includes single-sex and co-educational schools.
Headmaster, Mr Phillip Stapleton, said: “This is a particularly pleasing recognition because the school is not a hothouse but believes that children should be able to develop at their own pace. Coming 35th in the UK shows that parents can have the best of all worlds for their children, a first-class education alongside a healthy and active lifestyle in one of the most beautiful parts of the country.”