WITHINGTON Girls’ School is celebrating yet another set of superb A Level results, with 74 per cent of subjects passed at A* and A grades and 91 per cent of all subjects passed at grades A*, A or B.

From this year’s A Level cohort of 69 girls, an impressive 29 per cent of all grades achieved were passed with the top A* grade with eight students achieving a clean sweep of A*s in all subjects taken and more than half of students achieved at least 3 A*- A grades.

Withington is proud of its girls’ consistently high levels of achievement across a wide range of subjects, which, on the basis of the elite A* grade achieved, is four times higher than the national average of around 7 per cent and, once again, has enabled the vast majority of students to gain admission to their first choice university and degree course. Popular university destinations for 2017 include Birmingham, Bristol, Durham, Edinburgh, London (LSE, UCL, KCL and Imperial), Leeds and Manchester.

The girls’ chosen degree courses include art, dentistry, economics, engineering, English, geography, history, mathematics, medicine, modern foreign languages, philosophy, physiotherapy, politics, psychology and veterinary science - Withington girls have once again excelled across the board, including in the core STEM subjects (Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry and Physics).

This year, nine girls – which represents 13 per cent of the cohort - will take up their places at Oxford or Cambridge to read for degrees in a variety of subjects including classics, fine art, engineering, history, medicine and philosophy, politics and economics.

Withington’s headmistress, Mrs Sarah Haslam, said of the A-Level results: "It has been an absolute pleasure to work with this year group who have made such a fantastic contribution to the life of the school.

"They fully deserve these wonderful results which not only reflect their high academic ability, but also their commitment and their passion for learning.

"In this year’s context of A Level reform in particular, it is satisfying to see the girls’ and their teachers’ outstanding dedication rewarded in results that enable our girls to move on to the university courses of their choice, many the most competitive in the land, and to see them leave with the skills, values, personal and social qualities needed to embrace the opportunities and challenges ahead and to go where their ambitions and dreams take them.

"We are delighted for the girls, their parents, teachers and all members of the school community who have played their part in this success."

* Withington Girls’ School Head Girls Team are set to take up their first-choice university places having notched up an impressive clean sweep of top grades, securing 10 A* and A grades between them.

Head girl Emily Herbert, from Styal, is going to read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford after achieving 2A*s in Mathematics and History and 2 A grades in Politics and German.

Deputy head girl Sitara Bartle, from Lymm, will read Classics at Newnham College, Cambridge after achieving an A* in Latin and A grades in Greek and Spanish.

Emma King, from Hale, who is also a deputy head girl, secured 3 A*s (English Literature, English Language and History) and will go on to study English Literature at Edinburgh.

Withington Girls' School A level results (AS results in brackets)

A Adlington 3(1); F Akhtar 3(1); R Anand 3(1); A Ashtab 3(1); J Asuelime 4; S Bartle 3(1); S Bashich 4(1); S Beardall 3(1); J Berry 4(1); S Bhatti 3(1); R Billson 3(1); S Bolam 3(1); C Bream 4(1); A-J Brownson 3(1); A Bullock 3(1); E Cain 3(1); I Carlson 3(1); R Chawla 3(1); A Choudry 3(2); C Cooper 3; H Cranmer 3(1); M Deykin 3(1); A Doyle 3(1); A Edmonds 3; D Elgott 3(1); M Elliott 3(1); S Evans 3(1); F Fateh 5; M Ganguly 3(1); L Griffin 3(1); I Griffiths 5; M Gurnani 4; L Hale 3(1); D Haribaskaran 3(1); H Henry 3(1).

E Herbert 4(1); D Herman 3(1); H Irfan 3(2); A Jacobson 4; F Jess 5; R Kay 3; E King 3(2); A Kumar 4; E Leung 3(1); H Li 3(1); S McKendrick 3(1); I McLean 4; B Melling 3(1); A Mian 3(1); T Morris 3(1); R Mounteney 5; A Murray 3(2); L Owen 3(1) ; F Pu 3(1) ; M Rehman 3(1); K Rooney 3(1) ; M Roseman 4(1) ; M Sabar 3(1) ; M Saleem 3(1) ; A Sargent 3; S Sethi 3(1); D Shah 4(1); F Shalom 3(1); M Simmons 3(1); R Simon 3; T Smutna 3(1); R Sood 3(1); K Suryavanshi 3(1); S Whitehurst 3(2).