Awards and Recognition
According to the Good Schools Guide, the school is "cheerful and welcoming" and is a happy balance of the "traditions of grammar School with modern, forward-thinking attitude". School pupils received a total of 1102.2 A/AS points per pupil and 242.8 A/AS points per entry in 2010. At GCSE, in 2010 28.2% of entries were A* and 60% of GCSE entries were either A* or A's.
The school gets very good A-level results and was listed as the 20th top performing Independent Sixth Form in The Independent.
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