RGS Worcester students were celebrating yesterday after receiving their A Level results.

In a year of so much educational change and in which A Levels are becoming increasingly challenging nationally, the Upper Sixth students have maintained the school’s excellent results of recent years. Most impressively, at a time when it is supposed to be more difficult to achieve the highest A* grades, the results at the top level were up with more A* grades than previously.

On the strength of their examination results the students can now go on to accept offers at the leading universities across the country, including Oxford and Cambridge where students are reading biological science, history, law, medicine, and Spanish with Portuguese. Equally, students have achieved places on a wide range of courses and subjects from reading engineering to the arts, including history at Florida State University, USA, to a High-Level Apprenticeship at Aston Martin.

John Pitt, Headmaster, commented: “We are delighted that our Upper Sixth students have coped so well with the challenges of a new A Level system. They deserve every praise along with their teachers who have responded so well to the reforms and supported the students. Well done to the students for all that they have achieved. They have been an excellent year group who have done so much at RGS academically and in so many other areas. We are so pleased that we can support our students to pursue their interests in such a range of different subject areas. This is so important and our award-winning careers provision, together with these excellent A Level results has made this possible and given all of our students a great head start.”

The grades of A*-C were 89%. 100% of grades were between A*-E.