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St Aloysius' college becomes Islington's top performing school

St Aloysius' College and Highbury Grove Secondary School are celebrating as the provisional GCSE results for Islington secondary schools were announced. Both St Aloysius' and Highbury Grove's results have improved by a massive eight percentage points between 2004 and 2005. St Aloysius' College has the best results in the borough, with 57 per cent of pupils gaining 5 or more A*-C grades, increasing from 49 per cent in 2004. Highbury Grove School has seen results rise from 28 to 36 per cent in the past year.

Provisional GCSE figures released in August show that the improvement in Islington schools has now reached a sustainable level, with 44.5 per cent of students borough-wide gaining 5 or more A* - C grades, compared with a provisional figure of 45 per cent in August 2004. It is expected that this provisional figure will rise when the results are confirmed by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) in January 2006.

Bill Clark, Director of Schools' Services, CEA@Islington, said: "Congratulations to St Aloysius' College for achieving a second successive year of significant improvement and to Highbury Grove for their considerable increase on last year's results.

"Obviously we will want to analyse the results for each school to identify the reasons why some have improved, and how best to improve upon levels in achievement in others."

Councillor James Kempton, Executive Member for Children and Young People, said: "Improvements at Highbury Grove and St Aloysius' are impressive and we will be taking the time to learn what has gone so well. Overall results have stabilised but I' m confident that with the measures schools are putting in place GCSE passes will start to rise again next year."

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Notes to Editors

Provisional 2005 GCSE results for Islington schools:

Notes on Figures

• All 2005 results are provisional and subject to change (e.g. appeals on specific subjects)
• The DfES performance tables, which will include the final results, will be published in January 2006.

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