Harris Academy staff and students were beaming this morning after 100 per cent of students passed their A-levels for the second year in a row.

Principal Nicola Graham said she was “absolutely delighted” as 120 students at Harris Academy Chafford Hundred picked up an excellent set of A-level results.

Overall, 100 per cent of entries across the 27 subjects on offer achieved pass marks, with 25 per cent achieving A* and As.

On top of the high A grade success, over half of students got a grade B or higher at 52 per cent.

Head Nicola said: "I'm incredibly proud of all of them I really am, it's hard to pull ones out that I feel more proud of than the others because I'm so proud of all of them!

"No, the students worked really hard and they deserve this. All credit too to the teaching team who also worked really hard to achieve this."

Vice-Principal Anna Papworth, who started as a Teaching Assistant at the school in 2006 and worked her way up, said the results were “amazing.”

She said: “They are a great year group, they did really well. There’s a great relationship with this year, we have really bonded with them and it will be sad to see them go. Some of them we have had for seven years!”

The college also hailed some outstanding successes from individual students, including Isaiah Murray, 18, of Chafford Hundred, who got A* and 2 As, and Christopher Richards, who got 2 A*s, and an A and is off to Warwick to study Maths.

Isaiah, who got A* in Psychology, A in Economics and A in Maths, said: “I’m very pleased. I’m a bit shocked to be honest. I didn’t expect to do so well, it’s better than I thought I would get.

“I had excellent support from teachers all through the year, I have to give the credit to them and to God.

“I am taking a gap year this year and will be working as a tutor at Harris Academy, next year I will apply to go to university in Canada and study in Toronto or Waterloo. Vancouver is too cold!”

Molly Williams, 18, of Felipe Road, Chafford Hundred, said she was “absolutely over the moon” after getting an A* in Psychology, A in Chemistry and B in Mathematics.

She said all of her friends had made it into university too.

Molly said: “I did better than I thought. I’m absolutely over the moon actually! I managed to get into the university I wanted, Leeds to do Chemistry. All of my friends have got in too, they all managed to get into their first or second choice."

Ella Davis-Yuille, 18, of Lucas Road, Grays, got an A* in English Lit, A in Psychology and B in Geography said she was “so happy.”

She said: “I’m so happy, especially with English."

Chris Richards, 18 of Hastings Close, Grays, is off to London School of Economics to study Business, Maths and Statistics, after getting two A*s in Maths and Further Maths and an A in Chemistry.

He said: “I’m pleased and I got into the place I wanted. I was hoping to get three A*s but that’s just pride I think. It could be worse!”

Around 80 per cent students were said by the academy to have secured higher education places, with a rise in the number of students off to Russell Group universities from last year.

A spokeswoman for the school said they were “particularly pleased” with strong subject success in Business Studies, Psychology, Sociology and English Literature.