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Staff and students at Paddington Academy are today celebrating very high A Level results, continuing a trend of consistently high achievement for the last eight years.

Today’s overall results saw results match the high benchmark set last year at the school:

• 32% of A Level grades were awarded the highest marks of A* or A;
• 66% of A Level grades were awarded A*-B;
• 90% of A Level grades were awarded A*-C.

Paddington Academy is celebrating after picking up two awards at United Learning’s national Best in Everyone Awards. Sixth Former Ilinca Dascalescu won the prestigious Pupil of the Year Award whilst Era Kosumi won the Art Award in the Years 10 to 13 category. Ilina and Era were presented with their awards at a spectacular black tie gala held at the Cutlers’ Hall in Sheffield on Friday 28 June.

According to Department for Education Performance Tables published today, students at Paddington Academy make the most progress of any students in Westminster.  The academy has a Progress 8 score of 0.78 which is well above the national average.  Progress 8 measures the amount of progress students make between the end of primary school and the end of Year 11.

Our five Vita Bursary winners, who left the school in the summer, are enjoying their first term at university thanks to generous bursaries provided by anonymous donors. 

The Vita Bursary Fund was launched last year by two benefactors who wish to support economically disadvantaged students and give them the means to attend a university of their choice.  Following a rigorous application process, five students have each received a bursary of £3,000 to help them cover the costs of living away from home. Thanks to these bursaries these students are now studying at some of the best universities in the country including Cambridge, Warwick and Nottingham Universities.

80% gain a 4+ in English & Maths

60 of the grades achieved were at the highest grade 9, including 12 in Maths

Top performance in Science and Religious Education

Large increase in number of students studying History

Five students at Paddington are the first recipients of a new bursary fund to enable them to attend university outside of London.

The five students will each receive a bursary of £3,000 next year to help them with the costs of living away from home and has enabled them to accept places at universities that may have been beyond their reach previously. All students were invited to apply for the bursary and selection was based on the merit of their applications.

Staff and students at Paddington Academy are today celebrating the best results in the school’s 11 year history, having continued an eight-year trend of improvement.

Today’s overall results saw figures rise to their highest ever at the school:

·      30% of A Level grades were awarded the highest marks of A* or A;

·      67% of A Level grades were awarded A*-B;

·      93% of A Level grades were awarded A*-C.