THIS year's GCSE league tables show, unsurprisingly, that the county's grammar schools have once again fared best.

The top TEN schools in terms of the percentage of pupils passing at least five GCSEs with A* to C grades, are all grammars, while the ten schools propping up the tables are upper schools.

Schools are also ordered by their 'added value measure' a number reflecting not just results, but how well a school did compared with what it is expected to achieve.

By this standard, the highest-achieving state school in south Buckinghamshire was Amersham's Dr Challoner's Grammar School, where every pupil passed at least five subjects.

The average points score per boy at Dr Challoner's was 70.9, while 64.2 per cent of passes were at the two top grades.

Dr Challoner's head Mark Fenton said: "I am delighted with the results and the boys and staff have worked well."

Every pupil at RGS got at least five grades A* to C, and averaged just over 12 passes each.

The boys' average points score was 69.9.

Head Tim Dingle has been inundated with requests for interviews by the national media and said he was absolutely delighted.

The results countrywide, published yesterday by the Department for Education and Skills, also show Buckinghamshire to be the top Local Education Authority in the country for GCSE results.

See today's Bucks Free Press for a table showing how south Bucks Schools got on.

January 24, 2003 13:00