As of 2011, it received the 3rd highest number of students receiving 5 or more A*-C GCSEs in Westminster and was ranked the 4th best school in England. In November 2011, the academy was judged as Outstanding by Ofsted. In 2011, Mohammed Said Noor became the first ever academy student to gain a place at Oxbridge. Mohammed received 3A*s and 1A in his A-levels and went on to study Medicine at the University of Cambridge. In 2015, the Academy recorded its highest number of students going to Russell Group universities. That year, the school sent its first student to study History at University of Cambridge, with five in total achieving 3A*s. In August 2017, the Academy saw its results improving for the 6th year consecutively with over 22% of its students securing a place at a Russell Group university. Some notable performances included a place at University of Cambridge and, for the first time in the Academy's history, one student gained 4 A* grades at A Level, which is matched or bettered by fewer than 0.03% of all students nationally. Additionally, at GCSE level, the Academy scored a 0.74 improvement at Progress 8, placing the school in top 1% nationally. In August 2018, the Academy saw its results improving for the 7th year running, with students breaking their "School GCSE Records" – at GCSE level, 80% of their students gained at least a grade 4 in English and Maths. In addition, 60 of the grades gained by students were grade 9s, which is the highest attainable grade at GCSE and was achieved by only 3% of students nationally. Also, over 93% of their A-Level students gained an A*-C grade and were thus awarded places at Cambridge, UCL, King's College London, and other well-known universities. In August 2019, the Academy saw its results further improving continuing a trend of consistently high achievement for the last eight years - at GCSE level, STUDENTS BREAK SCHOOL GCSE RECORDS again, with 82% students gaining 4+ in English and Maths, 56% gained a 5+ in both and 18% Level 7,   66 of the grades achieved were at the highest grade 9, 30% of all grades were 7+. Class of 2019 also saw a large rise in the percentage achieving the English Baccalaureate to 45% with 81% of students gaining a 4+ in a Language GCSE. At A Level, 32% of grades were awarded the highest marks of A* or A, 66% of A Level grades were awarded A*-B; 90% of grades were awarded A*-C and ten students gained at least 3+ A grades at A Level (7% of the cohort) - these results secured students places at Cambridge, plus a range of further Russell Group universities.