Sixteen-year-old Robin Skailes, from Ross-on-Wye, who has just finished Year 11, took the A level Mathematics exam two years early and gained an outstanding A* grade.

Robin is just one of the pupils at Haberdashers’ Monmouth Schools who have achieved a very strong set of results in the more challenging two-year linear A-level examinations.

At Monmouth School for Boys, 38.5% of all grades were A* to A – well above the national average of 25.5% - and 66.4% were A* to B, an improvement in the results from 2018.

The A* rate was 11.1% and a total of 83.2% of all grades were A* to C.

Fourteen boys recorded three or more A* and A grades.

At Monmouth School for Girls, 39.3% of all grades were A* to A – again exceeding the national average - and 69.6% - more than two-thirds of all grades – were A* to B.

The A* rate was 10.3% and 87.9% of all grades were A* to C, an improvement in the results from 12 months ago.

Ten girls achieved three or more A* and A grades.

Haberdashers’ Monmouth Schools were particularly pleased that the vast majority of students gained their first or second choice place at university.