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Hereford Sixth Form College Tops League Tables Again
30th October 2009
Once again Hereford Sixth Form College students have surpassed previous records with another outstanding set of examination results putting it first amongst the non-selective colleges and fourth overall in National Press league tables.
The overall A level pass rate of 99% for over 786 candidates was 2% above the national average. 56.4% of A level entries resulted in an A or B grade, 4% above the national average and 27 subjects achieved a 100% pass rate.
136 students gained 3 or more grade A’s at A level.
Of these James Yapp (ex Ludlow CE School) gained a staggering 7 A’s at A level.
5 students gained an amazing 6 A’s at A level:
- David Bufton (ex Ludlow CE School)
- James Elliott (ex Weobley High School)
- Katherine Lane (ex John Kyrle High School)
- Matthew Taylor (ex Whitecross High School)
- Joseph Williams (ex Weobley High School)
23 students gained an outstanding 5 grade A’s at A level:
- Emma Carr (ex Aylestone School)
- Francis Clegg (ex Toronto Waldorf School)
- James Cooke (ex Aylestone School)
- Peter Crowther (ex The Bishop of Hereford's Bluecoat School)
- Daniel Davies (ex Kingstone High School)
- Max Fancourt (ex St. Mary's RC High School)
- Joseph Frances (ex Aylestone School)
- Laurence Hanes (ex John Kyrle High School)
- Rose Hardy (ex Hereford Waldorf School)
- Richard Harper (ex The Bishop of Hereford's Bluecoat School)
- Rhiannon Hawkins (ex Ludlow CE School)
- Rebecca Howard (ex St. Mary's RC High School)
- Katherine Lattey (ex Haberdashers Monmouth School for Girls)
- Hannah Packwood (ex Kingstone High School)
- Fiona Rogoff (ex The Bishop of Hereford's Bluecoat School)
- Sean Tull (ex John Kyrle High School)
- Laura Turner (ex Haberdashers Monmouth School for Girls)
- Jeremy Waterfield (ex Hereford Waldorf School)
- Megan Williams (ex Queen Elizabeth Humanities College)
- Daniel Wright (ex The Bishop of Hereford's Bluecoat School)
19 students gained the grades they needed for entry to Oxford or Cambridge:
- Ben Crawford-Sharpe (Natural Sciences – Kings College, Cambridge)
- Daniel Davies (Medicine – Clare College, Cambridge)
- Max Fancourt (Natural Sciences – Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge)
- Patrick Fleming (PPE - Wadham College, Oxford)
- Joey Frances (English – Kings College, Cambridge)
- Sophia Godsland (Medicine – Somerville College, Oxford)
- Rhiannon Hawkins (Languages – Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
- Rebecca Howard (Veterinary Science – Girton College, Cambridge)
- Anna-Louise Millward (Anglo Saxon and Norse – Newnham College, Cambridge)
- Ben Richards (Chemical Engineering – Peterhouse College, Cambridge)
- Ewan Short (History – Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford)
- Molly Tucker (Geography – Murray College, Cambridge)
- Sean Tull (Mathematics – Clare College, Cambridge)
- Laura Turner (Medicine – Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford)
- Noah Waterfield-Price (Physics – Wadham College, Cambridge)
- Carleton Webb (Economics – Selwyn College, Cambridge)
- Jon Whitehead (Mathematics – Emmanuel College, Cambridge)
- Joseph Williams (Natural Sciences – Girton College, Cambridge)
- James Yapp (Law – Jesus College, Oxford)
Over 800 first year students sat AS examinations gaining equally superb results. The pass rate of 94.6% was 7% above the national average and 51% of entries resulted in A or B grades (13% above the national average).
At AS level, 102 students gained 3 or more grade A’s, including the following who each gained 5 grade A’s at AS:
- Jay Bamber (ex Tenbury High School)
- Sian De Bell (ex Fairfield High School)
- Josephine Evans (ex Haberdashers Monmouth School for Girls)
- Louise Jones (ex John Masefield High School)
- Thomas Smith (ex Aylestone School)
- Stephen Watkins (ex Fairfield High School)
- Catherine White (ex The Bishop of Hereford's Bluecoat School)
- Katherine Williams (ex Whitecross High School)
- Alexander Williamson (ex Kingstone High School)
Principal, Jonathan Godfrey said “Results at the College continue to be outstanding, particularly as we are the biggest A level centre in the area and an open-access institution. An analysis of the grades achieved shows that students with relatively modest GCSE’s on entry gain excellent A level results. This value - added element and the overall educational experience Sixth Form Colleges can offer, makes them special, out performing school sixth forms and many independent schools. Staff and students should be proud that we have maintained our position as the top-performing comprehensive sixth form college in the country.”