Education
The London Borough of Sutton is an exceptionally high performing borough for education.. Five of the state secondary schools in the London Borough of Sutton are Grammar schools.
The Borough came top of the England GCSE league tables in 2011 on the key benchmark - the percentage of pupils achieving five good GCSEs (A* to C) including English and Mathematics. The national average for 2011 was 58.2%. The average for Sutton, at 74.7%, was more than 15% above this national average. Only three other local authorities were able to achieve an average above 70%, all lower than Sutton. (See Sutton Guardian, 31 Jan 2012).
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