Truro and Penwith College has been placed in the top ten of a national league table for A-level results.

The college, which has bases in Truro and Penzance, is ninth in national newspaper The Independent’s league table.

Their overall pass rate was 98.5 per cent, one per cent above the national average, with 77 per cent of these passes graded A to C.

Thirty subjects had a 100 per cent pass rate with 26 students getting four straight A grades and three getting five straight A grades.

Oliver Bent is going to Oxford to study engineering science, Ruhul Choudbury to study clinical science at the Peninsula Medical School and James Freeman from Helston going to the University of Bath to study maths. Courageous student Hannah Richards from Ludgvan near Penzance passed three A-levels all at grade A, despite receiving terrible injuries from a car crash earlier this year, which almost proved fatal.

The college has built up a good reputation and is regularly placed alongside the city’s independent schools. Jonathan Burnett, college principal, said: “This is an excellent set of A-level results across the merged college and it reflects the hard work as well as the ability and ambition of hundreds of students. Students and their teaching staff in Penwith and in Truro deserve great praise for what are clearly exceptional achievements.”

Students with four A-levels at grade A were: Ben Clough from Penzance, Charlotte Cook from Redruth, Hollly Fifield de Saint Pierre from Penzance, Tom Fox from Truro, James Freeman from Helston, Kitty Howes from Penzance, Matthew Jarvis from Redruth, Christopher Kellett from Falmouth, Rebeca Lopes from Truro, Rebecca Mayes from Truro, Charles Mita from Helston, Ni Ni Moe Myint from Sussex, Hanna Morely from Truro, Loise Putnam from Truro, Seb Redman from Truro, James Rimmer from Truro, Matthew Robinson from Helston, Tom Rogers from Newquay, Alex Slater from Liskeard, Miranda Stevens from Truro, Belle Taylor from Penzance, Hannah Thomas from Penzance, Christine Toogood from Truro, Martin Watts from St Columb Major, Laurence Weatherly from St Ives, Aimee Wyld from Truro.