Academic Achievements
County Upper achieved a 90.9% A*-C pass rate in the Summer 2012 "A" Level examinations, an improvement of 5% from 86% in 2011, versus a national percentage of 76.6%; this was the second best state school "A" Level result in Suffolk.
Between 2009 - 2012 nine County Upper Sixth Form students have achieved entry to Oxbridge Colleges. and research by the Sutton Trust shows around three-quarters of students leaving Year 13 attend university after leaving County Upper with a third attending the 30 most selective universities and colleges.
The 2012 GCSE results showed similar success with a record 74% of students gaining 5 or more A*-C passes including English and Mathematics, up from 71% in 2011, compared with 52% in Suffolk and 58.4% for England nationally. This was the highest percentage awarded for any state school in Suffolk in a controversial year where an overall decline in English grades came under much scrutiny across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
35% of students also achieved an A*-C pass rate in both 2012 and 2011 for the GCSE subjects required to gain them the new English Baccalaureate qualification, (English, Mathematics, 2 Sciences, History/Geography and a Modern Foreign Language) meeting the 35% government target for 2012 against an average of 13.7% in Suffolk and 15.4% in 2011 across England (for state funded schools only).
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