BROMSGROVE School students have scored a record high in the latest International Baccalaureate results - putting them among the very top in the country.

A third of the independent school's pupils taking the exam scored 40 points or more - and one upper sixth former, Teresa Heidland has been placed in the best 150 in the world by gaining the maximum score of 45 points.

Teresa is planning to study medicine after taking a year out to work as a hospital volunteer.

Other high marks included Bromsgrove girls Ellie Saker, who gained 44 points and is going on to read physics at Oxford, and Eleanor Ball, with 41 points, who has also gained the International Leader of Tomorrow Award for the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver.

Eleanor will take up her university place in Canada to read French and Chinese later this year.

Bromsgrove School headmaster Peter Clague said: “We are absolutely delighted with our International Baccalaureate results this year.

"The average score of 38.5 places us amongst the very top International Baccalaureate schools in the UK. Every student who entered gained the Diploma and a third received formal recognition of their bilingualism.

"This is a demanding course and students and teachers have once again excelled.”