Many Ryde School pupils are celebrating some excellent A level results this week, with 68% of entries graded as B or above with over a third at ‘A*’ or ‘A’. Overall the Queens-Road based school has seen a 97% pass rate.
Deputy Head Boy and Shanklin resident Hamish Trowell received 4 A* grades in Chemistry, Maths, Further Maths and Physics and will now go on to study Natural Sciences at Cambridge, whilst Head Boy Jonty Parkes of Ryde secured 3 A*s securing his place to read Medicine at Plymouth.
Jonty is one of 3 students to have secured a place to read Medicine; Layla Beckett of Ryde and Liv Parnian from Wootton Bridge leave to study Medicine at Brighton & Sussex and King’s, London respectively.
Another pupil from Ryde gained A*A*A and will study Engineering and Timothy Ng of Newport leaves to study Finance at LSE with A*A*A.
Around a third of the Upper Sixth leavers had already got their results in early July as they had taken the IB Diploma rather than A levels. Here the 15 students scored an average of 35 points, the equivalent, according to UCAS, of A*AAA at A level. The world average last year was 29.88 with a maximum of 45 points available.
5 students got the equivalent of 4 A*s at A level or higher; Charlotte Day of Ryde achieved 42 points and will study Modern Languages at University College, London. Meanwhile Head Girl Heidi Hamilton from Seaview and Alex Enderle both achieved 39 points and Sasha Brytova and Iryna Fedenko both achieved 38 points.
Looking at A level and IB results together, the average UCAS points per student is 378 with AS grades and 353 without – the equivalent of 3 ‘A’ grades at A level per pupil.
Mark Waldron, Headmaster, has paid tribute to the continuing hard work and determination of both staff and pupils:
“We are of course delighted to see so many of our pupils achieving excellent results after many months of hard work with most students making significant improvements on their AS grades from last year.
“Whilst results do matter of course, and our UCAS average point score of 378 is incredibly encouraging, today is also an important moment to look forward with excitement at the many and varied university courses our students are leaving to join.
“These results show that Island pupils are more than capable of achieving at both A level and the IB at the same level and indeed ahead of pupils across Britain and their university destinations and career ambitions show similar ambition and dedication”.
