Wednesday 2nd May 2012
Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra has officially opened the Yarm School’s landmark Performing A...
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Read full news story...We have broken most of our examination records in a superb year of academic performance.
At A-level, the recently-introduced A* rate is up to 18.3% from last year’s 15.4. The A*-B rate is up almost 7% from 77.5% to 84.3%. The pupils in 2011 took more A-level modules than any predecessors, achieving a record average number of 4.68 A-levels per candidate. This is a really good indicator of pupil ambition and is driven by the pupils themselves. Overall, therefore, the average number of UCAS points per pupil was a new record high of 482 (compared to 471 last year).
In a year of pressure on university entry, Yarm pupils secured places on competitive courses in top universities, including Oxford and Cambridge. 13% of the cohort got into medical/dental school – a fantastic achievement. Others went on to read Law, Engineering, Psychology, Economics etc.
The GCSE results are absolutely fantastic! Our A* rate is up from 28.9% to 36.9% and comfortably our best ever. The A*-A rate is 12% up on last year and, again, our best ever by 6.5%. The mean number of passes equals the record at 10.4 GCSEs per pupil.
In the league tables, we moved up from 145th to 106th in The Daily Telegraph table – our highest position ever. Our results placed us above many well known schools throughout the country. Locally, we were comfortably the best performing school – independent or state – in our whole area at both A-level and GCSE.
Yarm School offers IGCSE's (the international version of GCSE) in Mathematics, English, Business Studies, Chemistry, Biology and Physics. The School favours IGCSE's as the courses are more stimulating and rigorous. The qualification prepares pupils well for A-levels. Leading universities value IGCSE's, however the Department for Education does not include these qualifications in their league tables, as state schools do not offer them, so these league tables must be read with caution.
