Ripon Grammar School is a co-educational, selective, state secondary grammar school and specialist engineering college located in Ripon, North Yorkshire, England. It is one of the best-performing state schools in the North of England - in 2011, 100% of pupils gained the equivalent of 5 or more GCSEs at Grade C or above, including English and Maths; this figure has been over 95% consistently since at least 2006. The school was graded "Outstanding" in its 2012 Ofsted report.
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