A delighted Stuart West, Herschel Senior School Head, today announced that the Matric Class of 2017 achieved truly OUTSTANDING results in the 2017 NSC and IEB examinations! Their remarkable achievements demonstrate the proud Herschel legacy of academic excellence and these results, once again, position Herschel as one of the top academic schools in the country.

We applaud the Class of 2017 on their success.

• The Class of 2017 of 94 candidates achieved a 100% pass rate and a 100% Bachelor Degree pass.

• The 94 candidates achieved 416 subject distinctions (including Advanced Programme Mathematics and Advanced Programme English). This produced an average of 4.4 subject distinctions per candidate.

• 14 of the 21 subjects achieved a subject average of over 80%, including English, Physical Sciences, Life Sciences and Accounting. Mathematics had an average of 76.5% and AP Mathematics 76.4%.

• 35 pupils (37%) achieved 6 or more subject distinctions and 67 pupils (71%) achieved 3 or more subject distinctions

• 63% (59 girls) attained an A aggregate (over 80%) and 14% (13 girls) attained an aggregate over 90%.