Every pupil at school passes their A-levels

12:07pm Thursday 14th August 2008

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A once-failing school is celebrating the best A-level results in its history after all its students passed their exams.

Greig City Academy, in High Street, Hornsey, can now boast a 100 per cent pass rate at A-level after the 42 students who sat exams achieved A to E grades.

Greig smashed the national pass rate of 97.2 per cent, which has increased slightly this year from 96.9 per cent in 2007.

Students at the Hornsey school also doubled the number of A and B grades achieved last year, rising to 13 per cent from 6 per cent.

And success at the Greig sixth form centre, which opened four years ago, extended to BTEC results, where all candidates passed, with 55 per cent gaining a merit and 35 per cent obtaining distinctions.

Principal Paul Sutton said: “These results indicate how quickly and effectively we have established good academic standards.

Most importantly, with a 100 per cent pass rate virtually all these young people — almost 95 per cent of the year group — will be going on to university and higher education.

“I would like to congratulate students, staff and parents who can all be proud of their achievements.”

Fortismere School, in Tetherdown, Muswell Hill, remained Haringey’s top-performing school with 57 per cent of pupils achieving A to B grades and 99 per cent achieving an A to E pass.

Top student Anthony Herzig, 18, achieved four As at A-level and two Grade 1s in Cambridge University sixth term examination papers.He is one of 20 Fortismere students who will start a degree at top universities such as Cambridge, Oxford or at a medical school this September.

A-level celebrations continued around the borough, with students at Highgate Wood School, Montenotte Road, gaining a record number of A and B grades. Richard Wayoe, 18, became the first student from the Crouch End school to win a place at Cambridge, achieving a perfect result of 100 per cent in his A-level maths paper.

Ed Balls, minister for children, schools and families, said he hoped the “annual sterile debate” about exams being dumbed-down would be put to rest following the introduction of a new independent standards regulator, Ofqual.

The watchdog regulates the framework of exams to ensure that standards in new and existing qualifications and tests are consistent.

2008 A-level results:

• Alexandra Park School, Bidwell Gardens, Muswell Hill

  Number of students entered: 92

  Percentage of A-B grades: 33

  Percentage of A-E grades: 95

• Fortismere, Tetherdown, Muswell Hill

  Number of students entered: 163

  Percentage of A-B grades: 57

  Percentage of A-E grades: 99

• Greig City Academy, High Street, Hornsey

  Number of students entered: 42

  Percentage of A-B grades: 13

  Percentage of A-E grades: 100

• Highgate Wood School, Montenotte Road, Crouch End

  Number of students entered: 55

  Percentage of A-B grades: 38

  Percentage of A-E grades: 97

• Hornsey School for Girls, Inderwick Road, Crouch End

  Number of students entered: 55

  Percentage of A-B grades: 38

  Percentage of A-E grades: 97

• St Thomas More School, Glendale Avenue, Wood Green

  Number of students entered: 49

  Percentage of A-B grades: 14

  Percentage of A-E grades: 88