Crompton House in top 40 schools

A SHAW school has been acclaimed nationally after its A-Level results put it in the Top 40 comprehensives.

Record results at Crompton House pushed the Rochdale Road school up to 39th in the Independent’s A-Level league table. It’s 160 pupils scored an average of 348 points each.

The points score is calculated by awarding 120 points for an A grade, 100 for a B, 80 for a C, 60 for a D and 40 for an E, with AS Levels scoring half the A-Level points.

The school topping this year’s state comprehensive table no longer teaches A-Levels.

Hockerill Anglo-European School in Hertfordshire has ditched A-Level courses in favour of the International Baccalaureate exam, which all 79 students passed giving it 553 points and with 60 per cent of its pupils getting into elite universities.

Crompton House celebrated a 98 per cent pass rate, 52 per cent at A or B grades.

Almost all of its 160 Year 13 students will be off to university this autumn with Rose Edge going to Queens College Oxford, to study philosophy, and Thomas Partington to Downing College, Cambridge to study Engineering.

Nine students achieved four grade As and 21 achieved three As.

Headteacher Elsie Tough said they were the best results for a number of years and students and staff had all worked very hard.