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Secondary school exam results worst in London

Secondary school exam results worst in London
08 March 2007
SECONDARY schools in Islington have hit the bottom of the league table - with the WORST exam results in London for 14-year-olds.

Islington is ranked below all 31 other boroughs in the capital in National Curriculum tests in English, maths and science taken by teenagers in May last year.

Two of Islington's secondary schools are among the bottom 20 individual schools in London in the league table - only nine schools across the city have worse results than Islington Arts and Media School in Turle Road, Finsbury Park, and only 13 scored worse than Holloway School in Hilldrop Road, Holloway.

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