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Article: On the rise again as city schools top 50 per cent benchmark Gcse results are out today and Hull schools are hoping to help the city climb up the national league rankings.

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August 24, 2006
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Gcse results are out today and Hull schools are hoping to help the city climb up the national league rankings.

Education reporter Katie Knass takes a closer look at the results

GCSEs JOY: Struggle pays off as dedicated pupils build on last year's great turnaround

IT HAS been a struggle of momentous proportions - but today it paid dividends.

After years of hard work and endeavour, youngsters in Hull have hit a milestone in their GCSE results.

More than half of the city's youngsters (51.5 per cent) have reached the Government benchmark of five A* to C grades.

It is a psychological victory that will spur Hull on to bigger things.

And now the national average, this year at 62.4, must be firmly ...

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