REVEALED: Warrington's A-level league tables

Based on the government’s new progress scores, Lymm High School topped the list, followed by Priestley College and Bridgewater High School.

The score calculates how much progress students made between their GCSEs and their A-level exams, compared to similar youngsters across the country.

A score above zero means students made more progress than most others with similar GCSE grades.

A negative grade does not mean the teenagers made no progress or that the school failed, but that pupils made less progress than others.

Lymm High School racked up a progress score of 0.2, putting it above the national average.

But all other A-level providers in the town scored below the national average.

Head teacher at Lymm High, Gwyn Williams said: “We are delighted with this set of results, which show our A-level students made levels of progress that only a small handful of schools in the whole of the north west managed.

“Close examination of the data shows that we are in the top 10 per cent of the whole country, which is obviously something we are very proud of.”

Head of sixth form, Hayley Jennings added: “I am so lucky to be able to work with such fabulous students and a team of teachers who are so dedicated and skilled at what they do. My sincere congratulations and thanks go out to all of them.”

However Warrington was behind the rest of the country for the amount of students achieving AAB in at least two facilitating subjects - biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, geography, history, English literature or languages.

Nationally, 17 per cent of youngsters achieved these grades but in Warrington, the figure was 9.7 per cent

And the average A-level grade handed to students across the town was a C-, compared the national average which was C+.