Students and staff at St Mary’s Crosby celebrating A-level results
Students and staff at St Mary’s College in Crosby are celebrating another excellent set of A-level results this summer.
Continuing the high standards of previous years the ‘class of 2023’ recorded a 99 per cent pass rate in the key examinations, with almost a third of students (30 per cent) achieving three or more A*, A or B grades.
Overall a fifth of all passes were at the highest A*/A grades, and more than half (52 per cent) were at A*, A or B grade.
Two other St Mary’s high achievers are Oxford bound. Head girl 18-year-old Rachael Fraser from Blundellsands recorded A* passes in English literature and Spanish and an A grade in history. She will be studying Spanish and Portuguese at Oxford.
Victoria McKinley-Smith, also 18 from Mossley Hill, will study French and German at Oxford after achieving A* passes in these two subjects at A-level, plus an A in music.
Head boy, 18-year-old Xavier Cottrell-Boyce from Blundellsands, is planning to study Ancient and Medieval History at the University of Edinburgh after achieving an A* in religious studies and A grades in geography and history.
Meanwhile, two students who only arrived in the UK from Hong Kong with their families two years ago also achieved excellent A-level results.
Jasmine Law, aged 18, recorded an A* in Art and Design and two As in maths and business, while Serena Tang, aged 17, achieved an A* in maths, an A in biology and a B in chemistry.
Excellent results will also enable two students to take up prestigious degree apprenticeships – 18-year-old Liam Hughes at Deutsche Bank and Robert Johnson, also 18, at the Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology.
St Mary’s College Principal, Mike Kennedy, commented: “We are very proud of all our students who have worked incredibly hard to achieve these results, despite the challenges they have faced over the last few years.