Denstone College has achieved its best A level results for the last five years, school bosses have announced.

Forty-three per cent of pupils achieved A* or A grades - including all of those who took further maths, theatre studies, music and sport. A total of 93 per cent of English Literature scores were at A*, A or B and 20 out of 25 Maths candidates got B or above.

In total eleven subjects came out with a 100 per cent success rate in terms of entrants getting A*-to-C, including history, geography, economics, French, Spanish, IT and art.

The private schools' headmaster, David Derbyshire, said "These fantastic results mean the Denstone College students can move confidently on to the next stage of their careers.

"Hard work from staff and pupils has paid off. But we've seen these impressive young people having fun and shining in different ways. I know they’re ready to go out and make an impact on the world."

George Dunn, Rory Dyer and school captains Emily Bailey and Josh Russell
George Dunn, Rory Dyer and school captains Emily Bailey and Josh Russell

School captain Emily Bailey got two A*s and two As and will be studying law at Cambridge.

Olivia Greatbatch got the same grades and is going to do medicine at University College London.

Max Davis' A* and three As was enough to get him into Leeds University's natural sciences course, while Georgia Brough will also enrol at the West Yorkshire uni to do aeronautical engineering after getting two A*s and an A

Harry Dunning Fernyhough, Sam Brossler and Isabelle Hosein clocked up two A* and an A and are all going to study maths at Bath, Edinburgh and Durham Universities respectively.

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