Top results again from King’s Rochester pupils

The publication of the latest government league tables last week gave cause for celebration at King’s Rochester.

King’s A Level pupils who collected their results last summer achieved an average point score per examination entry of 238.5 outstripping all local grammar schools and the national average of 216.2 The students who achieved these wonderful grades last summer are now studying at top universities across the UK including five at Oxford and Cambridge and others at outstanding Russell Group establishments such as Durham, Bristol, Liverpool, Imperial College, London and Leeds.

GCSE candidates did the school proud too. Their achievements put them above all the Kent broad-ability, independent schools with 92% of pupils gaining “5 good GCSEs” or more.

Head Master, Dr Ian Walker who retires this summer after 26 years of distinguished service to the school, said, “ I am delighted that King’s pupils have achieved another crop of outstanding results at GCSE and A Level – and especially in my last year as Head Master! I am, however, not surprised that King’s has ranked so highly in the latest league tables. Such results are the culmination of solid hard work by our broad-ability pupils and their teachers. They are the proof that we serve our youngsters and their futures far better by offering them traditional subjects taught by supportive, inspirational staff. Dumbing down a curriculum with a plethora of “Mickey Mouse” vocational subjects serves no-one and the top academic results achieved year on year by King’s pupils prove that”.