A Barrow school's tremendous GCSE results in 1992 were just the tip of the iceberg as far as successes went for its pupils.
Results from Chetwynde School, at that time a fee-paying, independent school, were on a par with the prestigious Westminster School, according to a report in
The Mail in September that year.
Chetwynde’s headteacher, Margaret Stones, said: “It’s a remarkable achievement. The pass rate is 100 per cent. We’re up there with the best of them.”
A grade G counts as a pass, but none of the 43 Chetwynde pupils got anything less than E. Nine out of 10 pupils took eight or more subjects and 95 per cent of passes were at A, B or C – twice the national average.