STUDENTS are celebrating after achieving outstanding A-Level results.

Schools and colleges across Lewisham achieved an overall pass rate of 98.4 per cent compared to the national average of 97.6 per cent.

Meanwhile students in Greenwich recorded an overall pass rate of 98.2 per cent.

Many students across both boroughs were awarded the new A* grade which was introduced this year.

Ran Xiong, who attends Colfe’s School in Horn Park Lane, Lee, achieved five A* grades and a grade A and will now study medicine at Imperial College.

In total 66.3 per cent of Colfe’s Sixth Form gained A* and B grades.

Plumstead Manor School in Old Mill Road, Plumstead, was also celebrating as 75.3 per cent of its students achieved A* to C grades.

The Haberdasher’s Aske’s Federation, which consists of Hatcham college and Knights Academy, gained its best ever result with a 100 per cent pass rate.

Pupils at St Dunstan's College in Stanstead Road, Catford, also achieved a 100 per cent pass rate with 79.5 per cent gaining A* to B grades.

Outstanding results were achieved at Forest Hill School, in Dacres Road, with 44 per cent of maths students gaining A* grade compared to 17 per cent nationally.

Max Sheffield, aged 18, is off to Cambridge University after achieving an A* in both physics and maths.

Sixteen students from Eltham College, Grove Park Road, Mottingham, will be going to Oxford and Cambridge.

The school recorded 97.2 per cent of pupils achieving grades A to C.

Blackheath High School in Vanbrugh Park celebrated a 100 per cent pass rate with 78 per cent of pupils awarded A* to B grades.

Students at Christ the King college in Belmont Grove, Lewisham, celebrated 66.4 per cent of students gaining grades A to C.

College Principal Dr Jane Overbury said: “We would like to congratulate them and wish them success as they progress on to some of the most prestigious universities in the country.”