Five students from the Dover Grammar School for Girls will be heading to Oxford and Cambridge universities.

The Frith Road school is celebrating what is now a new district-wide record, along with its title as one of the top 200 schools in the UK, rated by The Sunday Times.

Head teacher Matthew Bartlett said: “We are ecstatic at having beaten our previous record, with five students having won places at Oxford or Cambridge.

“This really does consolidate our position in providing the highest standard of post 16 education in the district.”

Sophie Davies will study English at Lincoln College in Oxford, Martha Ford will study classics at Christ Church in Oxford and Ben Smart will do biomedical engineering at the University of Oxford.

Ines Tan has been accepted to St Catharine’s College in Cambridge for history and Girti Hamm has got a place at Gonville and Caius in Cambridge to study maths.

Mr Bartlett said that the number is increasing of the amount of students getting unconditional offers for Russell Group universities, the leading 24 in the country.

“This reflects the very high esteem that Dover Grammar School for Girls students are held in by top universities, a position that continues to grow year on year,” he said.