Academic Standards
The school's best ever GCSE results were announced in August 2010. 68% of pupils achieved five or more A*-C grades. Results have also improved at A-Level: in 2010, A-Level students achieved a pass rate of 99% with 63% of all grades at A*-C.
In their January 2008 inspection, Ofsted rated the school as Grade 3, Satisfactory, point three on a four point scale. They stated that "Knowles Hill is a rapidly improving school that provides its students with a satisfactory education."
In their March 2011 inspection, Ofsted rated the school as Grade 2, Good, point two on a four point scale. They stated "all students make good progress in their learning regardless of their background, starting points or educational needs" and that "the learning environment has been vastly improved". The College is described as a "welcoming and positive community where students feel safe, enjoy their learning and achieve well."
Read more about this topic: Newton Abbot College
Famous quotes containing the words academic and/or standards:
“The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.”
—David Mamet (b. 1947)
“In this nation I see tens of millions of its citizens, a substantial part of its whole population, who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life. I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)