TENBURY High School is now performing at above the national average.

It is a remarkable transformation just 19 months after the school was put into special measures following a critical report by Ofsted. But the latest results show that the Tenbury High Ormiston Academy is now above the national average in the key benchmark of five GCSE passes at grades A-C including English and maths.

This was a six per cent jump on last year which was also an improvement on the results in 2013 that came just months before the critical Ofsted inspection.

These were vital results for school principal Adrian Price who a year ago said that the progress in 2014 was welcome but that the improvement was still ‘a work in progress’ and would need to be the start of a sustained recovery. and not a one hit wonder.

His reaction to the latest set of results, which show that the recovery is being sustained, was ‘wow'.

“Congratulations to all our year 11 leavers who worked incredibly hard to achieve a fabulous set of results,” said Adrian Mr Price. “The academy is delighted that so many of its pupils will now be able to take up their chosen post 16 pathways and go on to succeed still further.

“Overall school headline figures place the academy above national averages and reflect a continuing trend of improvement. “More than 66 per cent of all pupils achieved 5 GCSEs A*-C including English and maths – this is an increase of six per cent from last year.

“Over one third of all pupils achieved the gold star standard of the EBacc and just under one third of all grades were either A* or A. The academy also scored a very positive Progress 8 score which is the new performance measure for schools from 2015/16.

"More than 70 per cent of pupils achieved A*-C grades in English and in maths and the progress made in these subjects was above the national averages of last year. “We are delighted that so many pupils achieved so highly given the increasing rigour and challenge required to achieve this high standard in literacy and numeracy."