School celebrates first ever GCSE results

Harris Academy Wimbledon are celebrating their first year of GCSE results today.

The school in High Path, Wimbledon, opened in 2018 and has grown a year at a time. The students collecting their results today will be the academy’s founding students. 

A majority – 85 per cent – of students at the school received grades that were at least a grade four, 72 per cent got grades five and higher and almost a third got grade sevens and above. 

Some subjects excelled especially, in Latin a third of students achieved a grade nine and in triple science, 47 per cent of grades were a grade seven or higher. 

A number of students got eights and nines across the board including Callen Richards, 16, who achieved five grade nines, six grade eights and two grade sevens.

He said: “I was so nervous at first. I couldn’t bear to look at them all together, so I looked at them one by one, and I couldn’t believe it as I revealed each grade. Amazing.”

Other students were also delighted as they opened their results.

Raulis Barsegiana, 16, said: “I’m just over the moon. These are great results, especially in science. I’m so proud.”

The school said many of the Year 11 students will now go on to the academy’s sixth form which is due to open in September. 

Harris Academy Wimbledon is a state funded academy within the Harris Federation.

Jo Larizadeh, Principal of the school, said: “We are very pleased with our first-ever set of results which demonstrate the high academic standards we have set at Harris Academy Wimbledon. 

“Our founding students have achieved incredibly well and have set the standard for others to follow. 

“I am very proud of all our students and I am delighted that so many will be staying on for our Sixth Form which will seek to emulate the success we have achieved so far.”  

Pictured top: Harris Academy Wimbledon students and staff celebrating (Picture: Harris Academy Wimbledon)