Lancashire's private schools record A-level results (From Blackpool Citizen)

Lancashire's private schools record A-level results

10:00am Saturday 29th August 2009

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INDEPENDENT schools in Lancashire have seen their A-level results improve, according to newly compiled tables.

Information received by the Independent Schools Council showed Westholme in Blackburn had the best results in Lancashire followed by Arnold School, Blackpool, then Stonyhurst College, Hurst Green and Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, Blackburn, third and fourth respectively.

But all the schools failed to make the top 100 schools in the country, according to the tables compiled by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, UCAS.

They used the average points scored per candidate for students taking two or more A-levels, excluding General Studies.

Headteacher of Stonyhurst College Andrew Johnson said: “We are very pleased to hear that we have done so well in this year’s league tables for A-levels.

“It is encouraging that our students have once again performed strongly in a whole variety of subjects whilst also taking part in the wide ranging extra curricular activities on offer here at Stonyhurst.

“We are proud of the achievements of our sixth formers and their teachers who have worked extremely hard to gain these results.”

Headteacher Simon Corns for Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School said: “It would be good if the tables were to take into account the breadth of the sixth form education that our general studies teaching at Queen Elizabeth’s gives.

“With general studies included, our statistics would be even better and this breadth is something that universities do consider, especially when trying to distinguish between candidates in highly competitive subjects such as medicine.

“This is one of the reasons that around 80 per cent of our students this year got into their first-choice university.

“At QEGS, we welcome boys and girls from a wide variety of backgrounds and one of the particularly pleasing aspects of a good set of A-level results this year was to see the exceptional achievements of a number of students who have benefited from finan-cial assistance to attend our school.

“They have all contributed so much to, and gained so much from, the life of Queen Elizabeth’s in the time they have been part of our school community.”

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