JCoSS has been named the Sunday Times' Greater London State Secondary School of the Year.

Informing parents, JCoSS head Patrick Moriarty wrote that the newspaper's "Parent Power" tables list the 2,000 highest performing schools in the country "and are an influential source of information, so this is a very significant accolade.

"It recognises our outstanding results at GCSE and A-level, and our rapid rise up the rankings in recent years. The overwhelming majority of schools in the top 2,000 or named as regional schools of the year are academically selective. Our position as an all-ability school committed to inclusion is therefore even more exceptional.

"The overarching aim of our curriculum, as is well known, is to build accomplished mensches. We value the development of character and integrity higher than raw academic grades. Nevertheless, it is wonderful to see that strategy bearing fruit in other measures. I congratulate the students whose hard work is reflected in this award, the families who nurture them and my colleagues whose skill, energy and commitment underpins it all."