This year, every single student at King’s College London Mathematics School achieved an A or an A* in A-level maths, and every single one of them is going to either Oxbridge or another Russell Group University.
Last year, Alison Wolf wrote about what she’d learnt in the process of helping to found this specialist free school.
King’s College London Mathematics School is precisely one year old. And on 13 August it woke up to AS-level results that make it one of the ten best state schools in the country. 97 per cent of students got an A in mathematics. 90 per cent of grades in maths and further maths were As. Students’ grades were, on average, two grades higher, across all their subjects, than would be expected from their GCSE results. As a governor, I bask in reflected glory.
Ours is a ‘free school’ sponsored by King’s, and it teaches talented, committed 16- to 18-year-olds.
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