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Academy GCSE results fall below national average
WESTMINSTER Academy’s GCSE grades this year were way below the national average – with just 20 per cent of pupils gaining five A*-Cs.
The average for Westminster as a whole was 63 per cent.
The grades were down on those scored by “failing” North Westminster community school, transformed into Paddington Academy and Westminster Academy last year.
Pimlico School, judged as failing by Ofsted inspectors who placed it on special measures in January, scored five per cent higher than last year with 50 per cent.
It has been a turbulent year at Westminster Academy with massive delays blighting its construction.
The academy was supposed to be up-and-running last September but 900 students were left stranded in a temporary building in Penfold Street after a spat between a doctor’s surgery and the council scuppered the project.
The Harrow Road health centre refused to make way for the school.
Declining to comment on results academy, principal Alison Banks said the new building would be “exciting and spacious”.
She said: “Three of the four floors have now been handed over to us by the builders and they are making the finishing touches to the fourth floor where the catering facilities will be.”
The academy’s sponsors is education firm Chelsfield.
The school, specialising in international business and enterprise, cost £25 million.
Paddington Academy, which declared better results than last year, is set to open in September in its new site in Oakington Road. |
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