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Friday, 01 August 2008
A league of independent schools in the North-West, published by
the Manchester Evening News, has ranked Bolton School at the top of
the table. The ranking, which covered Greater Manchester,
Lancashire and Cheshire, has been determined by how well pupils
performed in their GCSEs in 2008. Both the Boys' Division and
Girls' Division recorded a 100% pass rate in terms of pupils
achieving 5 A*-C grades. Click here to see the table.
A table of independent schools' performance at A Level placed
the Girls' Division as fifth in the North-West and the Boys'
Division as sixth. This ranking was compiled based on the average
point score per student. This was a particularly high ranking as
the other schools in the top ten had significantly fewer
pupils.
In a separate ranking, the Girls' Division was ranked in the top
200 schools in the country and was ranked as the number one school
in the Bolton region. The Boys' Division did not register in the
ranking as pupils sit International GCSE for Maths and English,
which the government does not recognise.
Headmaster of the Boys' Division, Mr Philip Britton commented:
""It has been an outstanding year at GCSE. Records tumbled as the
boys registered superb results, well above those achieved by
previous cohorts. All boys passed 5A*- C at a record average of 10
subjects each. A new record of 39% of passes were A* and the A* and
A percentage leapt to a new high of 74%. Many of the top
independent schools are moving away from publishing league table
data where possible, partly because the government refuses to
acknowledge the International GCSE which is the qualification that
we and many other schools have chosen for our boys but mainly
because a school such as Bolton has much more to offer than can be
accurately reflected in any league table position, however
high."
Mrs Richards, Headmistress of the Girls' Division said: "We were
delighted with this year's GCSE results, with 75% of entries being
graded A* or A and 47 girls, well over a third of the cohort, got
at least 10A* and A grades. Currently the Girls' Division does not
take any IGCSE examinations, but it seems most unfair to penalise
those schools that do take IGCSEs. A school is so much more than
its League position."
At A Level, the Boys' and Girls' Divisions were ranked as the
top performing Sixth Forms in the Bolton, Bury and Salford
regions.
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