Delight and pride over exam results

THE headmaster of a large private school in Leeds has told of his delight that its pupils achieved success in a table measuring performance in traditional academic subjects.
By The Newsroom
Published 24th Jan 2014, 05:00 BST

The Grammar School at Leeds had Yorkshire’s highest number of pupils achieving the GCSEs needed in order to achieve the English Baccalaureate.

The Department for Education created the Ebacc to encourage pupils to sit academic subjects. To achieve it students need at least a C grade in English, maths, sciences, a humanity – either history or geography and a modern language.

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The Grammar School at Leeds had 93 per cent of GCSE pupils taking the exams needed and 85 per cent of the year group achieve it.

Heckmondwike Grammar, Bradford Grammar, the North Halifax Grammar and Crossley Heath in Halifax were also among the region’s best performers.

Mike Gibbons, the school’s principal and chief executive, said: “The latest performance tables demonstrate an extremely strong performance by GSAL across all criteria, for which our students and staff should be justly proud.

“It is especially pleasing that the rigorous academic measures used by the DfE, such as the English Baccalaureate, endorse the quality of our students’ academic achievements.”

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Official figures from the DfE show big increases in the numbers taking Ebacc subjects nationally since the measure was introduced. Data shows 72,000 more pupils took the EBacc last year compared with 2012.

In total, 202,000 pupils entered the EBacc (35 per cent of the total), up from 130,000 (23 per cent) in 2012.

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