76% of students achieved 5 or more Standard Passes including at least grade 4 in English and Maths, an increase of 6 percentage points compared with 2018. 57% achieved 5 or more Strong Passes including at least grade 5 in English and Maths (up 8 percentage points).

89% of students achieved a grade 4 or above in English (up 3 percentage points), 86% in Maths (up 11 percentage points), 81% in both English and Maths (up 9 percentage points) and 81% in at least 2 Sciences (up 8 percentage points).

Over a quarter of all GCSE grades awarded were the highest GCSE grades of 9-7.

Headteacher, Phil Kelly, commented: “There are many excellent individual performances to celebrate by students of all abilities.”

Among the School's top performers were Grace Phillips (7 x grade 9, 5 x grade 8), Michaella Gapelbe-Santander (6 x grade 9, 4 x grade 8, 3 x grade 7 and 1 x grade 6), Zaynah Mulla (6 x grade 9, 3 x grade 8, 3 x grade 7), Dasol Kim (6 x grade 9, 2 x grade 8, 2 x grade 7, 1 x grade 6), Grace Geary (4 x grade 9, 6 x grade 8, 2 x grade 7), Lucas Brindley (3 x grade 9, 4 x grade 8, 5 x grade 7), Holly Moore (3 x grade 9, 3 x grade 8, 3 x grade 7), Evie Bottomley (3 x grade 9, 2 x grade 8, 3 x grade 7, 3 x grade 6), Ryan Sullivan (2 x grade 9, 7 x grade 8, 2 x grade 7 and 1x grade 6) Chloe Ireland (2 x grade 9, 6 x grade 8, 3 x grade 7) and Maryam Khalifa (1 x grade 9, 7 x grade 8, 3 x grade 7).

Mr Kelly added: “The students have worked extremely hard, effectively supported by our highly-skilled and dedicated team of teaching and support staff and encouraged by their families/carers.  Once again, Higham Lane School continues to excel. These results are very pleasing following the School’s Outstanding inspection judgement by Ofsted back in May and our exciting plans to open a new free school in Weddington in 2022. It’s a time to celebrate!”