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Tollbar Ranked In Nation's Elite

January 15th, 2009

Tollbar Business and Enterprise College was ranked in the top one percent of schools in the country today.

The Department of Children, Schools and Families' performance league tables show the college performs exceptionally well with all students, but particularly so with average and less able students.

The value added tables show students' progress from the time they join Tollbar to taking GCSEs. Last year the school was ranked in the top seven per cent in the UK.

Last summer, 299 students achieved five or more A* to C grades at GCSE, believed to be the largest number of any school in the UK.

Ofsted inspectors judged the school "Outstanding" last April.

Tollbar Principal David Hampson, awarded an OBE in the New Year Honours List, said today: "Our position in the performance tables clearly demonstrates outstanding year-on-year progress at GCSE and in the Sixth Form.

"This underlines the undisputed reputation of the college for achieving excellent results for its students.

"Our expanding Sixth Form, which now offers the high quality International Baccalaureate (IB), is further proof of our determination to go from strength to strength.

"Our Ofsted inspection has culminated in Tollbar becoming a High Performance Specialist School, and this has led up to apply to become a Training School for Teachers, which will ensure the quality of teaching for future students at the college and the area as a whole," he said.

Alex Hides, studying IB at Tollbar, was delighted with his exam results and put it down to the support offered by the staff.

"We were able to attend Saturday classes and Easter revision classes, and now that I am studying IB I feel I have received a good quality education from Tollbar," he said.

Amy Brawn, a current IB student who achieved 10 GCSEs at A* last summer, said the continued support from the college enabled her to achieve such outstanding results.

Laura Humberston put her success down to the excellent resources and outstanding teaching available at Tollbar.

"I am now studying the International Baccalaureate, which I have chosen because of the wide variety of subjects involved.

"I am confident that the good teaching in the sixth form will enable me to succeed even further," she said.

North East Lincolnshire Council, as a whole, saw a rise in the number of students who achieved five A*-C GCSEs last year, but saw the authority drop 12 places in the tables.

Roger Edwardson, the deputy director of Children's Services, said: "Results overall have been improving annually, but this is just exceptional.

"The school has rightly been recognised for all of its efforts under the leadership of David Hampson."

Cllr Margaret Cracknell, portfolio holder for Children's Services, said: "The hard work of everyone at Tollbar has not gone unnoticed.

"The effort, focus and determination that have made this achievement possible could only be achieved through the young people and the staff that teach these pupils.

"I am extremely proud to work alongside such amazing professionals and hope that we can see this success continued into the future."

Article from The Cleethorpes Chronicle - Thursday January 15th 2009

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