North Bridge House Senior pupils celebrate GCSE results

The school achieved success across the curriculum, with this year’s cohort earning on average almost a full grade higher per subject than would be expected nationally of pupils with the same starting points.

Four in five pupils exceeded those expectations, and nearly a quarter of all entries were two or more grades higher.

Christopher Jones, outgoing head of North Bridge House Hampstead, said: "It is a strange and rather lovely thing to say goodbye to a school and a name in the same summer. North Bridge House has spent decades doing something quietly unfashionable: taking children as they come and backing every one of them."

The results come ahead of the school’s rebranding to Alleyn’s Hampstead in September, becoming part of the Alleyn’s Schools Group.

The cohort, admitted without an academic entrance test, included more than a quarter who joined partway through their secondary education, several within the last two years.

Mr Jones said: "We have always talked about helping every pupil find their true north. Alleyn’s talks about helping every pupil become all they can be.

"I have come to think those are the same sentence, said twice, four hundred years apart. These results are the proof of it, and they are a fine thing to hand over."

Strong performance was recorded across sciences, humanities, and creative subjects.

In physics, 69 per cent of entries were awarded grade 7 or above, while geography saw 62 per cent reach the same level, with more than one in five achieving grade 9.

In computer science, more than a third of students earned a grade 9, and across biology, chemistry, and physics, around one in five entries reached the top grade.

Other academic areas also performed well, including modern foreign languages and technical subjects.

Aidan Sproat-Clements, founding head of Alleyn’s Hampstead, said: "These results are a credit to a group of young people who sat no entrance test to be here.

"This was a mixed-ability year group, and that is not a caveat to these results. It is the point of them."

He highlighted individual achievements and the diversity of student pathways.

Mr Sproat-Clements said: "A results table can only ever tell you about a cohort. It cannot tell you about the pupil going on to train as a chef, or the one who has earned a place at ballet school, or the one who will be learning to fly.

"Those are not consolation prizes. They are exactly what happens when a school takes each child's ambition seriously rather than pushing everyone down the same track.

"As we become Alleyn’s Hampstead next month, this is precisely the community we are building on, and we cannot wait to see what this next chapter looks like."

The school will continue to be operated by global education group Cognita and will become an all-through school for ages two to 18 across three campuses in Hampstead.