EXAM results were boosted in nearly all of Wyre Forest's main high schools during the last round of GCSE and A level tests, official figures show.

Only two of the five major state schools saw a drop in exams success, according to final league tables released this week by the Government.

Bewdley High failed to increase the percentage of students who got five GCSEs, or their equivalent, at grades A* to C.

Baxter College was the only institution which failed to boost its average point score per pupil for A level exams, which are calculated by adding the student's A and AS level score.

Kidderminster's King Charles I, Wolverley High and Stourport High all saw scores rise for A levels and GCSEs.

The results made King Charles I in Kidderminster the best overall performer, followed by Bewdley. Stourport and Wolverley had similar results for GCSEs and A levels while Baxter College showed signs of catching up its four rivals with its improved GCSE results.

King Charles I saw the numbers of pupils achieving five or more top GSCEs rise from 52 to 60 per cent and its average pupil A level score go from 271.6 to 297.5.

An A at A level is worth 120 points, a B is worth 100 and so on.

Stourport boosted its GCSE pass rate by six per cent - to 43 per cent - and added just under 26 points to its average A level score. Wolverley added 17 points.

Though it's A level point score fell by 50 points, the once-failing Baxter College boosted its GCSE pass rate by 10 per cent, to 23 per cent.

Independent Kidderminster girls' school, Holy Trinity, saw results slip from 2003. Its perfect 100 per cent pass rate fell to 90 per cent among the 29 pupils who took part while the average A-level score fell from 322.5 to 297.1.

Wolverley's independent Heathfield School held on to its 100 per cent GCSE pass rate. Of the schools outside Wyre Forest which serve district pupils, Hagley RC High and the village's Haybridge High improved GCSE results.

The value added score in the table below shows how well the school is bringing children forward in their education from Key Stage Three, when children are 14, to when pupils take their GCSEs.

Scores over 1,000 are generally above average while scores under 1,000 are generally below average.

Haybridge was ranked the best in Worcestershire for value added score while Wolverley came third.

KING Charles I High School is hoping to go from strength to strength with its A level courses after two students were given provisional places at Oxford and Cambridge universities.

The two Kidderminster youngsters need to bring home a host of A grades in this summer's exams to land the prestigious seats.

Tim Gulliver, headteacher at King Charles - which boosted its average pupil score for last summer's A level exams - said he was thrilled with the news about sixth form students, Jenny Jones and Alasdair Amos.

He added: "We are extremely pleased and I think both these institutions are extremely lucky to get students of such calibre. They are not just academic - they are characters as well - and give an awful lot back to the school."

Jenny, 17, needs three As in her A levels in physics, English, maths and geography to get into Oxford, to study geography. She said: "I am nervous. I have to get the marks so I will work hard. Now I have survived the interview I want to get it."

Alasdair, 18, is looking to study physical natural sciences at Cambridge. He needs As in all his subjects - physics, chemistry, maths and further maths.

He said: "Having got the offer and the offer from my first choice, then I really want to get in."

GCSE and A level tables Key

A = the number of pupils eligible for

GCSEs and equivalent qualifications.

B = the proportion of candidates getting

five A* to C grades at GCSE or

equivalent.

C = average GCSE points score per pupil (A*

= 58, A (52), B(46), C(40), D(34), E(28),

F(22), G(16).

D = the school's Key Stage 3 to GCSE

value-added score.

E = the rank within its LEA the school

achieved according to its value-added

score.

F = the combined A level and AS level points

score per candidate where an A level A

scores 120 points under the UCAS tariff

and B 100 points, and so on to an E

which scores 40.

G = the combined A level and AS level

points score per entry.

H = the rank within its LEA the school

achieved according to its A level points

score per entry - ties are broken by the

number of pupils eligible to take the

exams.

I = the percentage of half days missed due

to unauthorised absence (truancy).

J = the rank within its LEA the school

achieved according to its truancy rate -

ties broken by numbers of pupils on roll.

GCSE and A level tables

A B C D E F G H I J

Baxter College 128 23% 223.6 967.9 34 107.6 44.1 39 1.0% 36

Bewdley High 181 58% 353 996.5 17 280.3 81.4 15 0.7% 33

Hagley RC 166 74% 372.3 988.6 24 301.7 75.8 19 0.5% 27

Hartlebury 5 20% 100.4 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 0.0% 7

Haybridge High 159 94% 565.9 1019 1 299.2 88.5 8 0.2% 17

Heathfield 21 100% 399.9 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 0.0% 3

Holy Trinity 29 90% 474.5 999.5 13 297.1 82.1 13 - 14

Kidd College 0 n/a n/a n/a n/a 112.5 54.2 38 n/a n/a

King Charles I 254 60% 363 993.5 18 297.5 75.7 20 1.6% 42

Madinatul Islam 15 0% 190.1 938.8 35 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a

Stourport High 222 43% 333.5 999.8 11 241.3 64.2 32 1.3% 39

Wolverley High 206 47% 361.9 1013.4 3 237.7 64.2 33 0.2% 18