Students at Bournemouth School are celebrating some outstanding A level results. Overall, almost 42% of all entries were graded A* or A (82% were graded A*-C), with the average point score per A level entry increasing to 39.4 (the equivalent of a B grade) from 36.8 last year. The proportion of the cohort attaining AAB or higher in two or more facilitating subjects also increased from 23% in 2023 to 35% this year.
Remarkably, in Further Mathematics, 61% of all entries were graded as A*/A, with more than 40% of entries in Biology, Chemistry, Economics, French, Mathematics, Physics, Religious Studies and Spanish also being awarded the highest grades. Compared to their GCSE outcomes, students made particularly good progress in English Literature, French, Further Mathematics, Physics and Spanish.
Seventeen students achieved at least 2 A* and 1 A grades:
4 A*
Ryan George
Isabel Ness
Fergus O'Kane
Joe Piper
Edward Read
Zi Yu
3 A* and 1 A
Jasper Gillett
Matthew Hortop
Jude Smith
2 A* and 2A
Louis Bourke
Timothy Corney
Daniel Faithfull
Calvin Hesse
John Sheridan
3 A*
Kai Hill
Alexander Mellon-Davis
2 A* and 1 A
Samuel Lyle
Kai Hill leaves the school to read Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at Cambridge, where he will be joined by Zi Yu (Engineering) and Edward Read (Computing). Matthew Hortop will be embarking upon the study of Biomedical Science at Oxford, with a further six students leaving us to study medicine (Yamen Abiad, Louis Bourke, Timothy Corney, George Bevin, Jaafar Hikmat and Jacob Rumsey). A number of students are also leaving the school having secured degree apprenticeships. Jack Nicholls, Ben Hook and Caleb Humbles will be joining JP Morgan, Isaac Oxenham joining Barclays while Daniel Moss has already started an apprenticeship with a local employer.
Headmaster, Dr Dorian Lewis, commented, “We are all delighted by our students’ achievements – not just the high fliers, but all those who have applied themselves so well over the last two years to achieve the grades they required to embark upon their chosen career path. It is a credit to our staff that our students performed exceptionally well across a range of subject areas and leave us with such bright futures ahead of them. In the last academic year, we were inspected by Ofsted for the first time since 2011; these results offer further validation of their judgement of Bournemouth School as offering an outstanding provision, which results in our students achieving highly.”
Images: Richard Crease/Bournemouth School
