Students at The Charter School North Dulwich have bucked the national trend with an outstanding set of A level results.
While nationally, 26.5 per cent of grades were A* to A, the figure was 49 per cent for the Dulwich Village school.
78 per cent of those offered university places are bound for prestigious Russell Group or 1994 Group universities, including nine heading to Oxford or Cambridge University.
Headteacher Mark Pain said: “Our students have been incredibly focused, and their resilience and work ethic during these past two years is evidenced in these fantastic results despite them having never previously sat any public examinations due to the pandemic.”
“I am incredibly proud of what they have achieved,” he added.
Across the year, 40 per cent of students got AAB or higher and 80 per cent of BTEC grades were Merit or higher.
Among those success stories is Ben Snowdon, who will now study Engineering at the University of Oxford.
Seven students are Cambridge-bound. These are Lola Choo Antopolski (Psychological and Behavioural Sciences), Frieda Dickson (English), Ella Fleming (History and Politics), Archie Harper (Asian and Middle Eastern Studies), Madeleine Pritchard (History of Art) and Rhys Webb (Geography).
Other students gearing up for exciting courses include Holli Dizdarevic, who will be studying Psychology at Warwick, and Theo Hodgson Cru, set for a degree in Accounting and Finance at London Southbank University.
The school has reserved special mentions for students who made “outstanding progress” during their time at the school.
These include Poppy Monaghan who will be studying Social Policy, Sociology and Crime at Leeds, Frank Foxwell who is going on to study Criminology at Lancaster and Beatrice Carey who will be completing an art foundation course at the Royal Drawing School.
Established in 2000, The Charter School North Dulwich is a coeducational secondary school for students aged eleven to eighteen.