Teenagers at a state sixth form set up to get more disadvantaged students into top universities have received 57 Oxbridge offers — more than Eton.
Harris Westminster Sixth Form, founded ten years ago as a free school, runs classes on Saturday and is open from 7.30am to 6.30pm during the week.
Last year it had 48 offers — about the same as Eton — but Eton received 51 Oxford and Cambridge offers for this year, six fewer than Harris Westminster, which is in central London.
It is the highest number of Oxbridge offers achieved by the mixed selective sixth form, which was established in partnership with Westminster School, the alma mater of AA Milne, Sir John Gielgud, Sir Peter Ustinov and Nigel Lawson.
