A-LEVEL students at St Benedict’s School, Ealing, are celebrating after 61.3% of all exams taken were graded A*/A.

This is the highest proportion of top grades ever achieved at the school in a year when examinations were taken.

Nine students achieved straight A* grades in at least three subjects, including James Hunter (Biology, Chemistry, French and Latin), Angelica Lawson (History, Latin and Physics), Richard Mercer (Economics, Geography and History) and Niall Wynne (Chemistry, Maths, Further Maths and Physics).

All of them are taking up places at Oxford. A further 24 students achieved straight A*/A in all subjects.

All five of the candidates with conditional offers from Oxford have had their places confirmed.

Headmaster Andrew Johnson said: “It has been another really challenging year for examination candidates.

“I am hugely proud that students have worked so hard and achieved such outstanding results across the whole range of subjects.

“They could not have achieved all this without the dedicated and excellent support of their teachers.”

Results were were particularly impressive in History (87.5% A*/A), Art and Design (85.7% A*/A), English, Further Maths and Drama (all 83.3% A*/A).