GOVERNMENT league tables showing how schools in Alcester performed in their GCSEs and A-levels in 2014 have been released.

All the schools in the area managed to achieve well above the Government minimum standard expected of 40 per cent of all pupils achieving five or more A* to C grades, including English and maths.

Alcester Grammar, a restricted entry school, appeared in the top five schools in the county for GCSE results with 98 per cent of pupils achieving the benchmark -one per cent less than last year.

The school also came eighth in the county for students achieving at A-level with 96 per cent gaining at least three A* to -E grades.

Alcester Academy’s GCSE results fell four per cent from last year with 58 per cent of pupils achieving five or more A* to C grades, including English and maths.

Across the country, hundreds of schools failed to achieve the threshold after Government changes in what grades are recorded.

Pupils’ results from second attempts at GCSE exams and unregulated qualifications such as IGCSEs were not included in the latest league table.

St Benedict’s Catholic High School went against the trend with four per cent more pupils achieving five or more A* to C grades, including English and maths.

Tim Sara, headteacher at the school, said: “I think these are pleasing statistics, what is more pleasing is when it comes to what is called the best eight value added, how much our new students  progress.
“Every year, whichever way the Government does it we come out well.”

No results are available for the school at A-level as students go on to study the International Baccalaureate.