A specialist state sixth form college in London got the top grade for A-level results in England, according to detailed figures published by the Department for Education.
Students at King’s College London mathematics school averaged an A* for every A-level entry last summer, when grades were awarded by formal examinations for the first time since the start of the Covid pandemic.
The school, which only admits sixth formers with the highest grades in maths and associated subjects at GCSE, opened in 2014 but last year outperformed well-known names such as St Paul’s girls school and Westminster school, which was founded in 1560.
Another selective state school, Queen Elizabeth’s school for boys in north London, came fifth overall, with average grades just below an A*.
