A school has become the first in London to get a 100 per cent pass rate in the English Baccalaureate, today’s figures reveal.
All 179 GCSE pupils at Queen Elizabeth’s School in Barnet passed the performance measure, which was introduced in 2010. It was designed by Michael Gove to measure the number of pupils who take five academic subjects.
Today’s results show more pupils than ever are choosing these subjects but Queen Elizabeth’s headteacher Neil Enright rejected claims that non-EBacc subjects had been made to seem second class. He said: “I don’t think it has to be like that. Whilst we have a traditional curriculum here, last year 40 boys took GCSE music, 35 took art and more than 50 took design technology.”
Queen Elizabeth’s, which won an Evening Standard schools award last year, is an all boys grammar.
The only other school in the country to get a 100 per cent EBacc pass rate this year is Chelmsford County High School for Girls.
