Barnet pupils celebrate GCSE results

Students in Barnet received their GCSE exams last week with the borough ranking in the top three or four local authorities in the country, reports Leïla Davaud

Two young women holding mobile phones and sheets of paper — Students at The Compton School getting their results (Credit – The Compton School)

Young people in Barnet celebrated last week after GCSE results showed another strong year for the borough.

Based on results from 20 schools in Barnet, 82% of students achieved a standard pass (grade four or above), well above the national average of 67% and the London average of 71.7%.

41% of students achieved the top grades (seven and above), against a national average of 21.8%.

At Queen Elizabeth’s School, headteacher Neil Enright announced the grammar school’s best-ever results, with more than two-thirds of all GCSEs (68%) awarded the top grade nine, and 97% at grades nine to seven.

He said the results reflected “the talent of our pupils and all the hard work they have put in”, crediting the school’s QE Essentials programme and its 1:1 laptop scheme.

The Compton School, on Summers Lane, saw 76% of pupils achieve five or more GCSEs including English and maths, with a third of all grades at the highest banding of seven to nine.

Co-headteachers Louise Ismail and Andrew Hammod said: “The results placed many of our students among the highest achievers in the country”. Pupil Nanaka Goto, heading to Imperial College London to study maths, shared she had spent the summer “trying not to think about results day”.

At Ark Pioneer Academy in High Barnet, 76% of students achieved grades nine to four in English and maths. Principal Su Reddy praised a cohort that had “built on Ark Pioneer’s strong record of success”.

Independent school, Mount House in Hadley Wood reported 48% of grades at nine to seven and 80% at nine to five, including a 100% pass rate in the three sciences. Head Jon Cooper said: “The school’s all-ability intake made the figures a powerful reminder that exceptional outcomes can be achieved when every young person is known, valued and inspired.”

At Bishop Douglass Catholic Secondary School, headteacher Michelle Henderson congratulated pupils on “an exceptional set of GCSE results yet again”. Among them was Sum-Ying Fung, who achieved four grade 9s and is off to Woodhouse College to study maths, politics, history and physics.

Saracens High School in North London celebrated pupil premium students achieving nearly one-and-a-half grades above the national average, while St Andrew the Apostle School reported rising numbers of pupils hitting grades nine to seven in English and maths, following what it called its strongest-ever A-level results.

The Sacred Heart Language College in Harrow reported 45% of grades at nine to seven and 85% at nine to four. The school said: “significantly above national averages.”

Councillor Pauline Coakley Webb, cabinet member for family friendly Barnet, congratulated the borough’s students. She said: “A lot of hard work has gone into preparing for these exams, and this year’s achievements are a testament to the remarkable dedication of staff and the whole school community.”

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