St Leonard's

Students at St Leonard’s Catholic School, Durham, after a challenging year around RAAC, have pulled together to achieve another set of fantastic results of which we could not be prouder. 40% of A Level entries were awarded top A*/A grades.  82% of students are moving on to their first choice of University, including 10 students to Durham University. An outstanding 51% of students will be heading to Russell Group Universities. Five students successfully gained entry to Oxford and Cambridge.

Our students shine in vocational qualifications too, with Distinction as the average grade at BTEC. Students are also moving on to an exciting range of high-quality apprenticeships including Rolls Royce,  Hitachi and Off-Shore Wind Power.  

For all St Leonard’s students, the future is exciting;  Just two examples include: an outstanding student with D*D*D* in her Health and Social Care and a B in Sociology A-Level; she is heading to Cardiff University to study Diagnostic Radiography,  meanwhile one high-flying boy with 4A* grades will be going to read Natural Sciences at Jesus College, Cambridge.

• A/A* 40% of A-Level grades.
• Distinction: average grade at BTEC.
• Entirely grade A*/A for 15% of students.
• Targets from 2023 and 2022 beaten by both applied general and academic qualifications.
• Outstanding Russell Group university progression: 51%.
• Outstanding Oxbridge admissions: 3 Cambridge University, 2 Oxford University.
• 84% progressed to their first choice of university.