Record-breaking results!
This year’s crop of results are the best ever achieved here at Duke’s Aldridge Academy (formerly Northumberland Park Community School).
Congratulations to the outgoing Year 11 students, their parents, their families, and also to their teachers!
The Academy’s results have improved significantly when compared against published performance measures: for example, the proportion of students attaining grades 9-4 (previously A*-C) in English and Maths has risen 5 points to 53%. Similarly, the new grades 9-5 measure showing strong passes in English and Maths has risen 4 points to 33%. All of our EBacc performance measures have increased substantially and the relatively new Progress 8 measure is expected to show that this year’s cohort has attained grades substantially higher than the national average across their 8 qualifying subjects.
Amongst the highest achievers this year, with 9 or more grades at 7-9 and A-A*, are Khadija Choudhury, Omar Pierre-Williams, Sara Al Maliki, Yasmin Adam, Jubair Ali and Oguzcan Balci and Maksymilian Kujawa. The two top achieving girls and boys achievements are listed below:
| Khadija | Sara | Omar | Jubair | ||||
| Sociology | A* | Sociology | A | Sociology | A* | Sociology | A |
| Physics | 8 | Physics | 8 | Physics | 9 | Physics | 8 |
| Chemistry | 9 | Chemistry | 9 | Chemistry | 9 | Chemistry | 9 |
| Biology | 8 | Biology | 9 | Biology | 8 | Biology | 9 |
| RE | 9 | RE | 9 | RE | 7 | RE | 9 |
| Maths | 8 | Maths | 8 | Maths | 9 | Maths | 9 |
| English Literature | 8 | English Literature | 6 | English Literature | 6 | English Literature | 5 |
| English Language | 6 | English Language | 7 | English Language | 7 | English Language | 6 |
| Computer Science | 8 | Arabic | A* | Computer Science | 8 | Spanish | 8 |
| Child Development | A | Geography | 7 | History | 7 | Geography | 7 |
| Child Development | A | Music – Distinction L2 | |||||
Most students have made excellent progress. The most significant are two of our EAL students Sarantis Koulis and Kerim Bikim they have both attained an astonishing average of nearly 4 grades higher than expected in each of their ‘Progress 8’ subjects.
Other outstanding results were in:
- Art GCSE 94% students achieving a grade 5 or better with 52% achieving grade 7 or above.
- Sciences
75% of students gained 5 or above in Biology - 74% of students gained 5 or above in Physics
- 80% of students gained 5 or above in Chemistry
Every year a number of our students win scholarships to prestigious Independent Schools and 2018 is no different:
- Omar Pierre-Williams will be attending Rugby School
- Jayon Raveendran will be attending King Edward’s School, Witley
The students who went to boarding school in September 2016 have now finished and have secured places at the following institutions: Warwick University, Leeds University, Birkbeck College and King’s College London, amongst others.
Principal, Monica Duncan, commented:
“The year-on-year rise in our results is testimony to the commitment and hard work of students and staff who have worked tirelessly to achieve these results.
I also want to acknowledge the outstanding support received from parents.
We wish all the Year 11 students of 2017/18 every success in their future studies.”