My old school Queen Elizabeth's Boys' Grammar School Barnet, is today celebrating its best-ever results, with seven out of every ten A-levels awarded the highest-possible A* grade.

The results are yet another golden achievement at the end of a year that has seen the School earn an ‘outstanding’ rating from Ofsted, win the Sunday Times’ coveted State Secondary School of the Year title, and secure 35 Oxbridge offers.

Among the many highlights of today’s results at QE are the following:
A* grades amount to 69.9% of all results – up 10.4% on 2021 (when there were Teacher Assessed Grades or TAGs), and up from 45.3% in 2019;
92.2% of results are at A*–A, again higher than during the pandemic and up 6% on 2019;
The A*-B figure is 98.3%, again higher than 2021’s TAGs. This is the 17th consecutive year above 95% for this benchmark figure;
71 of the 167-strong cohort (42.5%) have achieved straight A* grades;
All 50 Economics candidates are awarded either A* (37) or A (13); similarly, there are no grades lower than A for English, French, Geography, Latin, Music and Sociology;
Mathematics was taken by 139 boys (83% of the year group), with more than four out of five pupils (82.0%) achieving A*.