Bishop's Stortford College students achieve 85% A* to B A-level grades

Pupils at Bishop's Stortford College are set to study medicine and veterinary science after A-level exam success.

At the Maze Green Road school, 85% of results have been graded A* to B with 30% graded at A* and 49 students gaining three grade As or better.

That means 80% of students have gained places at their first choice of university, including seven set on becoming veterinary surgeons or doctors with places at Cardiff University, Aston University, University of Lincoln, Imperial College London, University of Hong Kong, University of Edinburgh and University College London.

A number of the medical students have been awarded the Douglas Knock Memorial Fund Award, a special prize awarded to selected Old Stortfordians who leave Bishop's Stortford College to pursue a degree and training in medicine or a closely related field. Recipients enjoy a £4,000 bursary annually for three years.

This year three students are heading off to Oxbridge to study classics at Cambridge and chemistry and philosophy and French at Oxford.

Several students have earned apprenticeships in areas as diverse as law, finance, cyber-security and social media, including one taking up a corporate accountancy apprenticeship with Bishop's Stortford firm Price Bailey.

Head Kathy Crewe-Read said "I am extremely proud of the dedication and tenacity shown by our upper sixth. As the first cohort of students to sit A-level examinations since the pandemic began, their achievements today go beyond the grades they have received. The pride I feel in the way staff and students adapted to rise above the challenges placed in front of them – particularly in the first year of their A-level study – is immense."