Students at The Charter School North Dulwich bested its 2019 A Level scores by some margin with sixteen pupils achieving straight A*s.
60 per cent of A level grades awarded were A* to A, up from 44 per cent in 2019, the last time students sat in-person exams.
Three pupils at the state funded secondary school secured spots at Oxbridge universities while others head to Durham, York and Bristol.
Pupils in the 2022 cohort will join a range of courses, including Isatu Barrie who will study Social Work at Northampton and Estella Auger who will study Jewellery Design at Birmingham City.
Executive Headteacher Christian Hicks said: “Our students have shown incredible focus and drive to succeed, and their resilience and work ethic during these past two years is evidenced in these results despite the challenges and disruption to their education.
“I am incredibly proud of the results achieved. This is down to the hard work and commitment of the students, teaching staff and the pastoral team, including the work of our Head of Sixth Form, Ms. Fletcher, and the whole sixth form team.”
72 per cent of students achieved at least one A grade or equivalent with over 39 per cent of students getting an A* or A in each of their subjects.
In BTEC subjects 87 per cent of students taking the Sports course gained a Distinction or Merit and 56 per cent of all BTEC grades were Distinction* or Distinction.
Samuel Larcombe Tee and Imogen Carter are off to Cambridge, and Scarlett O’Connell is heading to Oxford to study English.
Imogen, who got A*A*AA in Latin, Spanish, chemistry and biology, will read Latin and Spanish. The eighteen-year-old is holidaying in Sydney, Australia and got to celebrate with her family who came to see her for results day.
Living in Herne Hill and a Charter student since year seven, she said: “My parents just wanted be here for it because the Cambridge thing has been such a big thing for me.
“It’s been an aim since I was seven-years-old. Them not being here for it would have been such a weird experience.”
Asked why she’s chosen to study Latin and Spanish at Cambridge, she said: “I think I’m just really competitive and googled best universities in the world when I was younger and was like ‘that’s where I’m going’.
“I didn’t know what I wanted to study but I had the most incredible Latin teacher and she told me about this amazing course which just sounded perfect and I loved her and she was the biggest inspiration to me.”
Imogen has already celebrated with a family meal and plans to tick off items on her Australia bucket list which include a visit to Palm Beach and different bars and restaurants.
Becca Firman will be studying Medicine at Exeter; Jocelyn Hughes will be studying Medicine at Sheffield and Frank Wicherek will take Veterinary Science at Bristol.
The school also reserved special mentions for those students who made “outstanding progress”.
These included Mya Bradshaw who will study Psychology at Durham, Kamil Kaymakci who is studying Economics at York and James Kargbo who will study Accounting and Finance.