Academics
Dr Challoner's has a strong reputation as one of the country's top performing schools. It was one of two schools named by the Department of Education (the other being Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe) as the best performing schools nation-wide in the 2003 GCSEs and named the country's best grammar school in 2011. In the 2011 GCSEs, boys achieved a 100% pass rate with 50 of the 183 candidates earning all A*-A grades.
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