Kingston Grammar School students continue to break records with a superb set of A Level results
We are delighted that KGS students have real cause for celebration today, recording the School’s best ever A Level results, exceeding the record outcomes achieved last year.
73% of all grades are at the highest level of A*/A, of which 31% are A*, and 95% of grades A*-B. It is a real testament to the hard work of students and staff alike that standards have continued to rise given the reduction in top grades nationally over the last few years, and despite all the disruptions and challenges that students have faced. Behind these headline statistics are numerous individual successes and wonderful stories of students overcoming personal challenges and adversity to succeed.
Particular congratulations go to those who achieved 4 A*s: Johnny Barr, Josh Batchelor, Stanley Farrant, Ellinor Comard, Tom Morris, Jack Skeates and Samuel Sturge.
A further 12 students achieved a highly impressive 3 A*s each: Tilly Cairney-Leeming, Sylvia Dorovski, Hamza Elmansoury, Poppy Emerson, Freddie Haynes, Sam Kelly, Lara Pickard, Frazer Pickrell, Ella Robinson, Henry Sandry-Butler, Aleeha Sheikh and Joe Tooth, and 36 students in total achieved a clean sweep of all A*/A grades.
With these excellent A Level results, KGS students are now able to embark on the next stage of their educational journey at top universities, such as Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial, across the UK and many, in line with recent trends, will go on to study at some of the most prestigious universities overseas. Over 90% will be taking up places at Russell Group universities, with many gaining entry to the most competitive courses including Medicine and Engineering.
Ellinor Comard and Stanley Farrant will both be taking up places to read Engineering at Cambridge University, at Pembroke and Clare colleges respectively. They will be joined by Oliver Honeybone reading Land Economy at Downing College, Cambridge, and Samuel Sturge, who will read Mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge. Samuel’s success comes on the back of his outstanding Gold Medal at the International Mathematics Olympiad this summer, helping the UK team to their highest finish in the competition since 1996!
Taking up places at Oxford are Tilly Cairney-Leeming, who will be reading Computer Science at Somerville College, Ella Robinson, who will study Biology at Keble College, and Jack Skeates, who will be reading Chemistry at Pembroke College.
With competition for medical courses at its highest level ever, we are delighted that both Anas Boulahmi and Hamza Elmansoury will both be taking up places to study Medicine at Imperial College, London. Miranda Scott and Nabeeha Bilal will also be reading Medicine, at Bristol and Nottingham universities respectively, whilst Ingrid Verwoerd will read Biomedical Sciences at the University of Edinburgh.
Amongst those students taking up places at prestigious overseas institutions are Dagny Rollins (Pitzer College, California), Sylvia Dorovski (Tilburg University in the Netherlands) and Martha le Huray (Harvard University, Massachusetts).
Just as pleasing is the wide array of interests shown by KGS students, which is reflected in an increasingly diverse choice of degree courses. These include Theatre Technology (Amelia Gregg), Climate Science (Danni Poole), Artificial Intelligence (Pearl Nyakunengwa), Mathematics, Operational Research, Statistics & Economics aka ‘MORSE’ (Sam Kelly) and Computer Games Design (Tom Hunt).
At the same time, particular subject disciplines remain as popular as ever. Twelve students, for example, will be going on to study Engineering this year.
Head Master Stephen Lehec is enormously proud of his students and staff and the outcomes they have achieved, commenting: “I am delighted that this cohort of hardworking and committed young people, who have all given so much to the life of the School during their time here, have achieved such brilliant and successful A Level results. Their success stories are complemented by their rich and diverse co-curricular and social lives. We are enormously grateful to them for their contributions to the School, and to the wider community. They have all been part of what makes Kingston Grammar School so special. We bid them a fond farewell, whilst welcoming them as our newest group of alumni, and wish them the very best as they take their next steps into the world.”
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Mr A House, Director of Marketing & Admissions
