A HARTFORD school is celebrating its league table success.

Staff and pupils at The Grange School, in Bradburns Lane, are delighted with their results in the Government tables that reflect exam performance in 2009.

The independent school was ranked highest in Cheshire at A-level and 74th in the country.

It was ranked the second best A-level school in England for the value added to students’ achievements in the sixth form.

Head teacher Chris Jeffery said: “We pride ourselves on how we get the very best out of our students in so many respects and the value that the teaching here adds to their performance is a central aspect of that.

“In practice, what this measure of added value means is that our students are achieving on average one grade higher in their overall A-level performance than students of similar ability in other schools.”

For the third year running, the school did not register in GCSE league tables because it offers the IGCSE maths course, in which 85 per cent of students scored A or A*.