WOOTTON Wawen Primary School is celebrating after coming joint top of the recent performance league tables.

One hundred per cent of 11 year olds sailed through national curriculum tests examining three core school subjects.

The 17 pupils all achieved Level 4 or above in the 2000 National Curriculum English, maths and science tests, beating the Warwickshire average by roughly 25 per cent, and gained a 29 per cent increase on last year's results.

All 17 pupils at Temple Grafton Primary School also passed science, with 88 per cent passing English and 94 per cent maths, and all 17 from Great Alne Primary School passed English, 82 per cent maths and 94 per cent science.

Steve Dewar, headteacher at Wootton Wawen, said: "Clearly, we are absolutely delighted with the results. They were remarkable and we also had exceedingly good Level 5 results.

"We are very proud of those children and put their success down to a very able cohort of pupils, excellent teaching and excellent parental support."

Other Alcester schools also fared well, with 88 per cent of 11 year olds from Coughton Primary School passing both English and maths, and 94 per cent science and 93 per cent of Dunnington Junior School pupils passing English and science, and 86 per cent maths.

Sixty five per cent, 70 per cent and 85 per cent of children at Our Lady's Catholic Primary School passed the three subjects and 85 per cent of those at St Faith's Junior School passed English and science and 59 per cent maths.

Of the 36 pupils at Bidford Primary School, 81 per cent passed English, 78 per cent maths and 86 per cent science, while 94 per cent at Salford Priors Primary School passed English and science and 89 per cent maths, which is again above the national average.