Academic Achievement
A-Level results in 2007 saw the school achieve a 100% pass rate with 81% of exams graded A–B. These results have put Dean Close in the top 100 schools in England as ranked by UCAS points per candidate. A majority of pupils attend Russell Group universities, with almost one in six achieving places at Oxbridge in recent years.
In 2009, Dean Close pupils achieved the best GCSE results in the School's history with 58.1% attaining A/A*, and with an overall pass rate of 97.6%.
However, in 2010, the record was yet again broken, with 61.7% of pupils achieving A/A*, with an overall pass rate of 98.3%
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