Contents
- Home
- News
- Festivals prove popular, despite the rain
- Diary sheds new light on the Wesleys
- Guide urges churches to cut floodlights
- Lambeth exceeded expectations, Dr Williams reports
- Mayhem in Orissa as Hindu extremists target Christians
- Russia ‘threatens world order’ says Georgian
- Ingham property move
- Philippines descends into civil conflict
- Rome not Iker’s plan, after all
- Five-year plan for healing in Kenya
- Before Dr Rice returns, Gaza gets a fillip
- News in brief
- Popularity of RS exam grows
- League-table success for CE schools
- Warnings over sham weddings
- Out of his niche
- Question of the week
- Comment
- Letters
- Real Life
- Features
- Faith
- Humour and crossword
- Pastimes
- Books
- Arts
- Media
- Gazette
 back to News |
 previous story
|
next story 
|
League-table success for CE schools
by Margaret Holness, Education Correspondent
 Making the grade: the wait ends for A-level students as they receive their results at Abbots Bromley School |
| LEAGUE TABLES based on this month’s GCSE and A-level results showed Church of England schools performing well. Although nationally only one in 20 secondary schools is Anglican, ten C of E comprehensives were among the top 50 at GCSE.
They were King’s School, Peterborough; St Aidan’s, Harrogate; Ranelagh School, Bracknell; Lady Margaret School, South-West London; Bishop Stopford, Kettering; St Marylebone Girls’ School, Westminster; Crompton House, Oldham; Blue Coat, Oldham; Canon Slade, Bolton; and Grey Coat Hospital, Westminster. Wilson’s School, Sutton, was among the top 20 selective schools.
At A-level, Wilson’s was also one of the ten leading grammars, with William Farr School, Lincoln; Canon Slade; and Oldham Blue Coat. The joint CE/RC St Aidan’s and St John Fisher was again among the top 50 comprehensives.
Nick McKemey, the Church of England’s head of school improvement, said that the results showed the commitment of Anglican schools to raising standards for all children. “At least one of the schools listed has a high proportion of children who come from very disadvantaged backgrounds.”
Information from the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) suggests that several C of E comprehensives are among the fastest-improving schools in the country, said Mr McKemey.
|
