TEENAGERS are celebrating after achieving outstanding A-level results.
Students in Bexley with A* to E grades was 98.7 per cent this year, up 0.3 per cent from last year.
Bexley Council’s cabinet member for education, Councillor John Fuller said: "These are great results. I never fail to be impressed at the level of talent and dedication our students continue to show.
“I congratulate them on their success and wish them all the very best for the future whatever they plan to do. "
A total of 62.96 per cent of students from Townley Grammar School for Girls, in Townley Road, Bexleyheath, achieved A* to B grades with 99.39 per cent scoring A* to E grades.
Headteacher Desmond Deehan said: "They have worked really hard and got the results they deserve."
Head girl Andrea Pereira, 18, achieved the best results in the school with three A* grades and one A.
She will be going to the University of Nottingham to study medicine.
Other high achievers included Brooke Porter, Emma Wise and Saraniya Ratalingam.
It was smiles all round at Trinity School, in Erith Road, Belvedere, with 100 per cent of pupils gaining A* to E grades for the fourth year running.
Outstanding individuals included Kate Bradley who achieved an A*, A and B and Sarah Williamson with A*, A and two B grades.
Head Teacher Ian Collins said “I congratulate this year’s young men and women on being rewarded for all their hard work and wish them well in their chosen pathways.”
Blackfen School for Girls, in Blackfen Road, Sidcup, recorded 97 per cent of students gaining A* to E grades with 62 per cent achieving A* to C.
Head Teacher Matthew Brown said: “Achievement at this level is something to be proud of and shows the hard work and commitment of the young women and men who study with us and also of staff and parents and carers.”
At Bexley Grammar School, in Danson Lane, Welling, 87.5 per cent of pupils achieved A* to C grades.
Dean Williams will be studying natural sciences at Cambridge University after gaining four A* grades.
While Calum Bradley-Sparvell will study history at Oxford after achieving three A* and one A.
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