They receive more rave reviews than a West End show.
The latest for Dartford Grammar School for Boys has come from three different inspection bodies full of praise for its high educational standards - and one plans to use the school as a case study.
The school is in its first year of having dropped A-levels, opting instead to set its sixth formers the International Baccalaureate (IB) school-leaving certificate.
It is recognised by big businesses and top universities around the world - from the famous Sorbonne in Paris, to Cambridge and Oxford, to America’s Yale and Harvard.
Now a visit by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate last month has resulted in the school becoming a case study for a national report on the benefits of an IB education.
Head teacher John Oakes (pictured) said: “The lead inspector stated it would be a glowing case study and that she would be more than happy to send her son here - and that was the real test.”
Just before that visit, the Dartford school received the IB’s own inspectorate over a three-day period, who described the school as “a special place,’ and where it “walks the talk.”
The school has achieved 97 per cent in the IB’s new performance indicator for the English Baccalaureate, placing it second in the country for this particular academic measure.
This accolade was closely followed with a letter received by Mr Oakes from Ofsted confirming their own interim assessment of the school as “outstanding” in every single one of its 35 performance categories.
Mr Oakes said: “We are thrilled to read and hear that the excellence we see on a daily basis from staff and students has once again been recognised by Her Majesty’s inspectors and others.”