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Pimlico answers its critics with a haul of top grades
PIMLICO School this week answered its critics in the best possible way – announcing its best haul of A-level results in decades.
The community school, condemned as “failing” by education chiefs after it was put on special measures in January, hit the national average for A-C grades for the first time since the 1970s.
Nearly three-quarters of pupils at the school scored A-C grades – an improvement of 3 per cent on last year and the school’s highest achievement yet.
The results have raised questions as to why the school was placed in the academy programme in July. Steve Barlow, a teacher there for 25 years who has led the Keep Pimlico School Comprehensive campaign, said: “We at Pimlico have always known that only a few changes were needed to make the difference. The key elements at the school have always been good. The results are just another piece of evidence proving that.”
Quintin Kynaston in St John’s Wood – ranked last year in the top 1 per cent most improving schools in the country – had 100 fewer pupils failing to score A-C grades. |
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