A-level league tables: Success for new Solihull sixth form
An article in today's Birmingham Mail (12/01/11) reads as follows:
A SOLIHULL school is celebrating performing well above the national average with its first ever batch of A-Level results.
Arden comprehensive, in Knowle, picked up on average 855.8 points per student against the national average of 732.9.
Head teacher Ann Green said teachers were committed to the new courses which students had previously taken with Heart of England School, who got a score of 784.3.
She said: 'When we've not had a great deal of experience delivering A-Levels you always hope the achievements the school has delivered in the past will carry on through. But when you have not done it before it can worrying, so we're very pleased with those results.'
Central government funding worth £4.2 million paid for a new sixth form which can take 250 students.
Among its class of 2010 was a student who picked up four A* grades, securing a place at Oxford to study maths.
Another two students have also been offered places to study maths and history this year.
Mrs Green added: 'What Arden is demonstrating is that actually it can be of benefit to come from a comprehensive school because when you do well universities look on this very favourably.'
Private school Saint Martin's came top in the GCSE results with 100 per cent of pupils getting five A* to C grades including English and maths and 100 per cent getting the grades overall.
The borough's Cabinet Member for Children and Young People, Coun Norman Davies said: “I'm delighted that once again Solihull schools have produced an excellent set of GCSE results.
'Well done to all of the students and their parents, and thank you to the teachers and school staff for their hard work in continuing to raise standards in our schools.'
