Impressive

The Daily Mail reports:

Britain’s strictest head mistress has proved her critics wrong yet again with top GCSE results to rival Eton despite serving one of the capital’s most deprived areas.

Katharine Birbalsingh, head of Michaela Community School in Brent, north London, is celebrating more than 50 per cent of her entries being grade 9 – ten times the national average of 5 per cent.

In addition, 82 per cent of all grades were at least a 7 – the equivalent of the old A – compared with around 22 per cent nationwide.

The school in a highly deprived area is achieving scores close to Eton College.

A grade 9 is the top possible, 99% of her school got at least a grade 5. 82% got a 7 or higher (an A), compared to 19% of schools with a similar deprivation.

You could pay 65,000 pounds a year to go to Eton, or you could be lucky enough to go to a school with Birbalsingh is the head mistress.