A BOYS' grammar school has celebrated achieving the best A-level results of every state school in Yorkshire.
New secondary league tables show students at Ermysted's Grammar School in Skipton picked up an average point score equivalent to four As at A-level.
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The boys' school achieved greater success than every other state school in the region and beat the majority of Yorkshire's private schools.
Only Bootham School in York achieved better results. Both feature in a table of the top 50 schools in the country for last summer's A-level results and Ermysted's was named the 22nd best state school in the country.
Headteacher Tom Ashworth said: "We are very pleased. We have very able children being a selective school but they still need working on. I put it down to what is a very good staff who work really hard and a group of parents who are particularly supportive."
The school'' pupils excel at exams which are traditionally thought of as the more difficult subjects to study at A-level such as maths and sciences.
Mr Ashworth said: "In maths 32 out of 42 pupils who took the exam picked up an A or a B and 25 of those achieved an A. The results are very similar for chemistry, biology and physics as well.
"I think our pupils have the confidence to take on the more difficult exams because of the quality of teaching they have had throughout the school.
"But I do not want to single out particular subjects, we have good teaching across the board and all of our teaching staff graduated in the subject they teach.
"People look at grammar schools and say we are hot-houses for education but we like to think that it is not just about exam results and that we give our pupils a good all-round education."
Bootham School's headmaster Jonathan Taylor also put the school's success down to a combination of excellent teachers and pupils and supportive parents.
He added: "We like to create an environment where pupils are not afraid of getting things wrong if they needed to because it allows them to try."
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