Red House School, Norton, one of the country's leading independent coeducational day schools, is celebrating impressive GCSE results.
The school, in Norton, Stockton-on-Tees, has seen 98 per cent of entrants achieve results at grade C and above, and 51 per cent of results at grade A* and grade A.
Headmaster Chris Allen said: "We are delighted with the results which are testimony to the hard work of everyone at the school.
"Students and parents alike have been genuinely delighted with the results. There were lots of tears of joy and no tears of sadness."
There were a number of first class individual performances at Red House, notably Katie Cole, who gained ten GCSE passes, nine at grade A* and one at grade A.
The top six students at Red House accumulated 44 A* grades and 16 A grades between them. They were Katie Cole, Richard Haddon, Helen McKay-Ferguson, Stephen Gosling, Thomas Bramwell and Julia Riddle.
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