KING'S School GCSE students were jumping for joy after another set of record results with sharp rises across all key performance indicators.

King's School headmaster, Dr Simon Hyde, praised this year's stellar performers.

“The staff work hard to engage, encourage and enthuse all our students, but what makes a star performer is a touch of true grit.

"These young men and women have the determination to succeed and their families and local community should be very proud of them.”

A stunning 32% of all grades were at A*, up from 25% last year; 65% of all grades were at A*/A, up from 58% last year’s and 87% of grades A* - B up from 86%.

Astonishingly 52 students (some of whom are pictured) had nine As or better; 32 students had 10 As or better; with 19 students getting 9 A*s or better and 13 students getting 10 A*s or better. 18 students received an A^ which is an A* with distinction in their Further Maths.

Top performer was Girls' Division Head Girl and one of the founding members of the King's astronomy club Aiman Aslam (pictured), from Macclesfield, 16, who was seeing her own stars with 11 A*s and an A^ in Further Mathematics. Also a top sportswoman, representing both the Hockey and Athletics teams, Aiman wants to study Medicine at university.

Aiman said: “King's creates a really supportive atmosphere, with so much help particularly in the crucial GCSE years.

"However, for me it is the opportunities outside the classroom such as my astronomy and my rich sporting life that have given me such a rounded education.”

King's also had one of the country's youngest A* performers with 12-year-old Casey Holloway, from Rainow, getting the top grade in her GCSE French.

Casey, lived in Metz in Eastern France for seven years when her father worked as the European Marketing Director for the Finnish paper firm UPM.

Casey, who is in Year 7 at the Girls' Division, said: “Our principal Mrs Andersen gave me one to one tuition for the GCSE French exam and has promised to help me with my German and Spanish exams also.

"I loved France, the weather, my friends and the lovely food, especially the croissants, they're just not the same in Macclesfield.

"But I also love Rainow. I feel I have had the best of both worlds.”

There were roughly the same number of academic high flyers among both the boys and the girls. Pictured are the some of those young men and women who got 10*s. The boys are from left to right are: Dmitri Whitmore, Oliver Davies, Robin Laughton, Oliver Papadimitriou and James Shering, who was one of only eight students nationwide from 21,000 entrants to get full marks in his Further Mathematics.

The GCSE results for the King's School 2014 are as follows:

C Abbott 9(9) D Allmand-Smith 9(9) T Andresen 10(10) O Andrews 8(5) A Aslam 11(11) E Austin 10(10) T Bahsoon 9(9) L Baldwin 9(9) T Ballantyne Rowland 9(9) H Barker 9(9) A Barlow 9(9) W Barnard 9(9) W Barratt 8(8) A Barrett 9(8) S Biggin 9(9) E Bird 9(9) S Bird 9(9) H Blackwell 9(9) G Booker 9(9) E Boothroyd 10(10) H Booton 9(8) H Brierley 10(10) S Brown 9(7) S Brown 9(9) A Burrows 9(8) R Calder 9(9) A Callow 9(8) P Cartwright 9(9) K Chopra 9(9) W Cockayne 9(9).

J Davenport 9(9) O Davies 10(10) E Denny 9(9) W Dowd 9(9) S Duncan 9(9) J Dykstra 9(9) L Earl 9(9) M Edwards 9(8) W Fairclough 9(8) A Fenwick 9(9) H Foster 9(9) W Fox 10(10) J Gardiner 9(8) F Ghaznavi 10(10) G Graham 9(9) J Griffin 9(7) C Gunter 9(8) S Gurney 9(9) J Habeeb 9(8) E Hancox 10(10) M Harden 10(10) W Harris 10(10) C Hastings 9(9) J Haughton 9(9) F Hepworth 10(10) W Hodgson 10(10) J Hodkinson 9(9) T Huddy 9(9) N Hughes 10(10) K Humphrey 9(9) A Hynes-Kaygusuz 9(7) A Jackson 9(9) B Jacot 10(10) H Jaques 9(9) E Jarvis 10(10) W Johnson 9(7) A Johnston 9(9).

E Kennerley 8(8) O Kenny 9(9) H Kitching 10(10) A Krajewski 10(10) J Laing 9(9) E Lalic 9(9) M Lauber 10(10) R Laughton 10(10) S Laughton 10(10) C Lavelle 10(10) J Le Moignan 10(10) D Lines 9(8) I Lovatt 9(9) H Lumsden 9(9) H Lyons 9(9) H Maan 9(9) O Macfadyen 9(9) J Machin 9(9) L Marchington 9(9) E Maxwell 9(9) I McCance 10(10) T McClusky 9(9) G McDowall 9(9) K McKeever 9(8) E McKenna 10(10) H McKenna 8(8) H Meadows 9(9) J Mercer 10(10) L Miller 9(9) J Milton-Edwards 9(9) K Montgomery 9(9) R Moores 9(9) L Murphy-Mason 9(8).

E Nicholson 9(9) E Nightingale 9(9) K Noad 10(10) O Nowak 10(10) S O'Brien 10(10) O Papadimitriou 9(9) E Payne 9(8) M Payne 9(9) M Peakman 9(9) T Pearson 9(7) J Percival 9(8) B Phillips 9(8) M Phillips 9(9) O Plant 10(10) H Price 9(9) M Price 10(10) G Pulley 9(9) H Quinlan 9(9) S Rae 11(11) H Reavey 10(10) A Redpath 9(4) J Richardson 9(9) A Richmond 9(9) Z Richmond 10(10) F Robbins 9(9) E Roberts 10(10) J Rodgers 9(8) T Roffe 10(10) H Rous 9(9) B Rowbottom 9(8) D Rukazenkov 9(9) A Russ 9(9).

M Salt 9(9) G Scott Pavey 8(6) K Shanahan 9(9) J Shering 10(10) J Simpson 9(8) E Smith 9(9) E Smith 8(8) M Smith 10(10) E Solomon 9(9) A Soltau 9(9) A Stevens 9(9) K Stevenson 9(9) H Strutt 11(11) E Thompson 10(10) J Towne 9(8) M Townley 10(10) J Turner 9(9) M Turner 10(10) R Turner 10(10) A Twambley 9(8) T Voysey 9(8) R Wallace 9(9) R Wardle 9(9) O Watkins 9(9) D Whitmore 10(10) H Wild 9(9) A Withington 9(9).