A-LEVEL results league tables showed the same pattern as GCSE tables, with private and selective schools scoring top marks.

In East Lancashire, Blackburn's Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School and Westholme School shared top honours in the A-level results table.

Pupils entered for at least two A-levels or equivalent scored an average 27.1 points, where a grade A represents ten points and a grade E scores two points.

Selective state schools Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School and Clitheroe Royal Grammar School were next in line.

Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School saw its average exam scores rise from ane average of 21.1 per student to 24.9. Head Martyn Morris said: "It was an outstanding set of results. I don't normally get ecstatic about these things but for us these results are excellent."

Of the school's 580 exam entries in different subjects, 564 were passes. Of those 48.8 per cent were at grades A and B compared to the school's previous best of 39 per cent. "It's a big leap for us and we are absolutely thrilled. It was a very good year group all through the school. We expected good things from them but not this good."

Accrington and Rossendale College dropped to the bottom of the table, losing two points to 12.2.

No-one at the college was available for comment.

Full tables in today's Lancashire Evening Telegraph.

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