Students at North Oxfordshire Academy are today celebrating their GCSE results. The percentage of students receiving 5 or more A*-C grades including English and maths has risen to 52%, up from 48% last year.

Notable successes included:

• Katherine Piper’s outstanding 5A*s and 5As;
• Ella Wilton’s 10 GCSES at grades A* and A;
• Cameron Parnham, with 10 A*-B grades including 6 A*s;
• James Rawlinson’s 10 A*-Cs, including 5 A* and A grades;
• Julie Hodge, with 10 GCSES at grades A*-C, including 6A*s and As;
• Andi Louise Matzen’s 10 A*-Cs including 7 grades at A* or A.

Sara Billins, Principal of North Oxfordshire Academy, said:

‘I am very pleased that we have improved across the board on last year’s results. We continue to move forward steadily as a school, consolidating progress as we go. I am delighted on behalf of those students celebrating their results today and congratulate them on their success. I would also like to thank our staff for their hard work, commitment and enthusiasm which is so pivotal in our students’ achievement.’