GCSE AND A LEVEL RESULTS IN TRAFFORD

That this House congratulates Trafford schools on their outstanding results at GCSE and A-level in 2007; notes that 74 per cent. of pupils achieved five or more GCSEs at A* to C, a better performance than in any other local authority on the English mainland; that 61 per cent. of pupils achieved five or more good GCSEs, including English and mathematics, putting Trafford in fourth place nationally; further notes that average point score per student at A level was higher in only five other local authority areas; and further notes that these results have been achieved in a socially and ethnically diverse metropolitan authority which borders Manchester and Salford and which extends to within a mile of the centre of Manchester.