Thirty one students achieved three straight A grades with an almost equal split between boys and girls

Thirty one students achieved three straight A grades with an almost equal split between boys and girls. Seven of them achieved 4 straight A grades and 3 students celebrated an outstanding 5 straight A grades.  

 Katie Fisher from Chertsey, was one such student who achieved 5 straight A grades. Katie joined the College from Hong Kong and has A grades in French and Maths, taken a year early, in addition to English Literature, History and Economics this summer and begins her Law degree at University College, London.  

 All five Oxbridge hopefuls achieved their places. Jonathan Mather (West Byfleet) joined St George's in the Sixth Form from Paris and has A grades in Physics, Maths, Further Maths, Chemistry and French and is going on to study Engineering at New College, Oxford. He is also an accomplished musician and composer. Entrepreneurial student, Adam Grieg (Weybridge) who runs his own website design company, has a place at Selwyn College Cambridge to study Engineering. Whilst at St George's, Adam won the Thales Prize of £1,000 towards his studies and a Nuffield Bursary at Surrey University. Emily Belton (Shepperton) will be reading History at Oxford and Jackson Lippold will read Chemical Engineering at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Jackson from Walton has been at St George's from Junior School days.   

Liam Burrell (Weybridge) got straight A grades and will be leaving the UK to study at Georgetown University in the US, following his older brother Chase who finished at St George's two years ago. Their younger brother Conor has just finished his GCSEs and will also be joining the Sixth Form. Following Liam to the US will be Tom Berry from Weybridge who has won a golf scholarship to San Diego University.  

Some students have planned exciting gap years before they continue to their chosen universities. This year, former Head boy Jeremy McCabe (Byfleet) who joined St George's for his Sixth Form studies, has planned an exciting gap year in South Africa assisting with medical care for children. Jeremy is also an accomplished actor and has recently appeared in a play in Woking. After all his gap year activities Jeremy will study medicine at Southampton. Like Jeremy, all of the outgoing Heads of School gained straight A grades despite the demands of their roles. Chris Jones (Pyrford) will studying Avionics at Leeds, Evie Barden (Guildford) is off to New College, Oxford to continue her passion for English and Olivia Marke (Esher) will study Spanish at Bristol. 

The College also announced its AS Level results which were excellent and bode well for next year's A Level results. Out of thirteen Lower Sixth students who took Maths A Level a year early, 11 gained a grade A. Notably Amica Nowlan (Addlestone) gained a merit in her Advanced Extension Award in French in addition to achieving grade As at A Level French and Maths and high grades in her other 3 AS Levels. 

Headmaster, Joe Peake, was delighted by the results, "The results of the boys and girls at St George's have clearly shown that they work on a level playing field and all achieve their potential in a co-educational environment." Margi Lamey, Head of Sixth Form at St George's College, said: "Our results show that both girls and boys excel at St George's.  Many students were successful in gaining their first choice of university.  We wish them all every success with their future plans."   

St George's College 2009 A Level results summary

• Number of candidates: 92
• % Pass rate (grades A/B/C/D/E): 99
• % Grade A/B: 77
• % Grade A/B/C: 92

(Figures to the nearest whole number)