Academic Achievements
At GCSE level in 2004, 100% of pupils entered earned five A* to C grades, and the school came twelfth in the BBC table of performance in A-/AS-Level. Again in 2005, 100% of pupils earned five A* to C grades at GCSE, and in 2006, 100% of pupils passed in at least seven subjects with grades A* to C. In 2008, more A* grades were achieved collectively than any other grade put together at GCSE level.
The Physics Department at Pate's was also recognised as the best Physics department in the country in a survey published by The Observer in May 2006.
In 2012, The Sunday Times ranked Pate's as the fourth best state secondary school in the UK. It was also awarded with State ‘Secondary School of the Year’.
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