Academic Performance
In 2003 Newstead Wood was described by Ofsted as "an outstandingly successful school". The school has a large catchment area, from which pupils are selected on the basis of tests in verbal and non-verbal reasoning. Around 900 girls sit the entrance tests annually and competition is intense. In 2004 there were eight applicants per place. Amongst leavers in 2005, 25 students gained places at Oxford and Cambridge universities.
It gets the second best A-level results in Bromley, after the St Olave's school - Bromley's other grammar school, and around the tenth best in Greater London.
In both 2010 and 2011, the school achieved the second best GCSE results in the country.
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