Examination Results
In 2005, St Paul's obtained (for the second year running) the best overall placing in the boys' school GCSE exam league tables published nationally, and was also the leading boys' school in the A level results tables. 60 of its leavers went to Oxford or Cambridge, which was also the highest proportion achieved by any boys' school in the country. In 2012, 62 leavers received offers from Oxford and Cambridge, representing a third of the year group At A level, 89.0% of the grades were A* or A. Also in 2011, at GCSE level, 79.1% of grades were A*, and 96.6% were A* or A.
In 2008, for the first time, its students sat the IGCSE exam instead of GCSE in Science, following sitting IGCSE in Mathematics the previous year. The school does not currently offer the International Baccalaureate as an alternative to A level, and has suffered on many league tables as a result. Dr Martin Stephen, Former High Master of St Paul's, has stated he believes that "league tables put massive pressure on headmasters to do bad things" and has announced that St Paul's will be joining other private schools in London in withdrawing from the ISC's 2008 league tables.
The school had its first student attain a place on the Prime Minister's Global Fellowship programme in 2009.
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