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We are pleased to be reporting another consistent and strong set of GCSE results.  The highlights are:

• Students in 13 Harris Academies sat for GCSEs (up from 11 Academies in 2012);
• Between this year and last year, the average increase in the % of students achieving five A*-C grades including English and maths is 3.2 percentage points;
• The average improvement for each Academy between their final year under LEA control and 2013 is 33 percentage points.

Just some of the successes of our individual Academies are:

• Harris Academy Greenwich, which as Eltham Foundation School came under the leadership of the Federation in 2011, a year before it officially became an Academy, has increased its proportion of students achieving at least five good GCSEs including English and maths from 48% in 2011 to 84%.  We believe it is likely to be one of the most improved schools in the country over this period;
• Harris Academy Chafford Hundred has improved its proportion of students gaining five good GCSEs including English and Maths from 84% in 2012 to 94%;
• At 58%, Harris Academy Peckham is now comfortably outperforming the national average – a very pleasing achievement for a school which was at just 11% when it opened in 2003 and was known as one of the most challenging in the country;
• At Harris Academy South Norwood, the percentage of students achieving the English Baccalaureate has risen dramatically from 4% in 2012 to 31%.  Similarly, the English Baccalaureate score is 40% at Harris City Academy Crystal Palace, 30% at Harris Academy Falconwood and 24% at Harris Academy Bromley;
• Our two Academies in Bromley, which both opened in 2011, continue to show significant year-on-year improvements;
• In its first year of operation, the percentage of students at Harris Academy Morden achieving five or more good GCSEs including English and maths has risen by 10 percentage points compared to the final set of results received by its predecessor school;
• At Westwood College, which came under Harris Federation leadership a year before it is due to become an Academy in September 2013, the proportion of students gaining five good GCSEs including English and Maths has risen from 35% to 41%.  The school will open as Harris Academy Upper Norwood next month;
• Our two most improved Academies this year are Harris Academy Merton, which went from 62% to 75%, and Harris Academy Purley, which went from 63% to 76%.

These improvements follow a successful set of A Level Results in which Harris Sixth Formers won places at Cambridge for Engineering, Manchester for Medicine, Nottingham for Maths and Glasgow for History.

Sir Dan Moynihan, Chief Executive of the Harris Federation said:

For another consecutive year, we are delighted to have increased the average proportion of Harris students gaining at least five good GCSEs including English and maths.  There have been some stunning successes, both at the Academy level and an individual level for the youngsters we educate. 

I would like to thank and congratulate our students, parents, teachers and leaders for their hard work and determination.  We are extremely proud of them and their achievements.